Program
The program will span two days, from Monday February 22nd 2021 to Tuesday February 23rd 2021. The activities will start at 11AM CST on Monday and continue to Tuesday at 4:30PM CST. The meeting program can be found below (a PDF version can be downloaded here). The meeting will be virtual held through Zoom. Information about how to connect to the meeting has been distributed by email to all registered participants.
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Monday, February 22, 2021 |
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11:00AM – 11:40AM |
Opening remarks Welcome from NSF Welcome from DePaul & IIT
Leadership Welcome from Harriet Taylor Program Overview |
Daniela Raicu (DePaul) Wendy Nilsen (NSF) Rebecca
Shearman (NSF) Salma Ghanem (DePaul) Peter Kilpatrick (IIT) Harriet Taylor (NSF/retired) Daniela Raicu (DePaul) Kyle Chard (UChicago) Jacob Furst (DePaul) |
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11:45AM – 12:45PM |
Panel I: Promising Practices for Virtual REU
Experiences Moderator:
Kyle Chard (UChicago) |
Rosie
Gomez (UTexas) Rachel
Burcin (CMU) Jonathan
Sprinkle (UArizona) Evan
Rosenberg (UMinnesota) |
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12:50PM – 1:50PM |
BREAKOUT SESSION 1: Planning for REU Site and Student
Success Moderator:
Jamie Payton (Temple) |
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Student recruiting,
selection, and environment for broadening participation in computing |
Tiffany
Barnes (NCSU) |
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Cohort building,
social activities, and research lab culture |
Damla
Turgut (UCF) |
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Mentor preparation,
management, and logistics |
Kemal
Akkaya (FIU) Alfredo
Perez (CSU) |
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High Impact First
Week Activities & Getting Ready for
Research |
Reynold
Bailey (RIT) Cecilia
Alm (RIT) |
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1:55PM –2:25PM |
BREAKOUT SESSION 1: Report and Resource Sharing |
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2:25PM – 2:40PM |
Break |
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2:40PM – 3:40PM |
Panel II Reporting, Writing a Highly Competitive
Renewal, and Moderator: Rebecca Shearman (NSF) |
Jeff
Forbes (NSF) Alan
Sussman (NSF) Wendy
Nilsen (NSF) Almadena
Chtchelkanova (NSF) |
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3:45PM – 4:30PM |
BREAKOUT SESSION 2 |
Jeff
Forbes (NSF) Alan
Sussman (NSF) Wendy
Nilsen (NSF) Rebecca
Shearman (NSF) Balakrishnan
Prabhakaran (NSF) Almadena
Chtchelkanova (NSF) |
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4:35PM – 5:00PM |
Poster
and Video Contest finalists Day #1 Wrap-up |
Jacob
Furst (DePaul) Daniela
Raicu (DePaul) |
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Tuesday,
February 23, 2021 |
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11:00AM – 11:05AM |
Welcome and
Logistics |
Daniela Raicu (DePaul) |
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11:05AM – 12:25PM |
Panel III CISE REU Site Common Application &
Evaluation Moderator: Jamie Payton
(Temple) |
Rebecca
Shearman (NSF) Cecilia Speroni (Mathematica) Audrey Rorrer (UNCC) Heather Wright (CERP) |
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12:30PM – 1:25PM |
Breakout Session
III REU Site Activities, Resources, and
Dissemination Moderator: Ioan Raicu (IIT) |
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Opportunities for
Shared/Open Compute Resource |
Kyle Chard (UChicago) Kate Keahey (Argonne) Rosie Gomez (UTAustin) |
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Using Social
Media to Support Your Site |
Jelena Mirkovic (USC) Ryan Kastner (UCSD) |
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Shared Site
Activities |
Feng Li (IU) |
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Graduate School
Preparation |
Sertac Artan (NYIT) |
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Research
Communication |
Mubarak Shah (UCF) |
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1:35PM – 2:00PM |
Breakout Session
III Report and
Resource Sharing |
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2:00PM – 2:30PM |
Break & Networking Moderator: Daniela Raicu (DePaul) & Jacob Furst
(DePaul) |
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2:30PM – 3:00PM |
Tips and Best Practices for Running
REU Sites Moderator: Kyle Chard (UChicago) |
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3:05PM – 4:00PM |
Breakout Session
IV S-STEM + REU Site PI Networking Moderator: Jamie Payton (Temple) & Rebecca
Shearman (NSF) |
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S-STEM+REU Northeast/Mid-Atlantic |
Jamie Payton (Temple) |
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S-STEM+REU
Central/Midwest |
Jeff Forbes (NSF) |
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S-STEM+REU
Southeast |
Rebecca Shearman (NSF) |
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S-STEM+REU West |
Thomas Kim (NSF) |
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REU+Campus
Offices |
David Wilson (UNCC) |
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REU+BPC Orgs
& Resources |
TBD |
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REU+REU
Collaborations |
Jie Wu (Temple) Lazaros Gallos (Rutgers) |
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4:05PM – 4:30PM |
Exit
Survey Closing
Remarks |
Jacob Furst (DePaul) Ioan Raicu (IIT) Daniela Raicu (DePaul) Rebecca Shearman (NSF) |