Call for Contributions
One of the
main purposes of the CRI’07 PI meeting is for participants to share their
experiences in setting up and managing their research infrastructures, and
also to present significant outcomes, ranging from discipline-specific
advances, to impact on the research agendas of individual faculty members,
to broader impacts at the departmental, institutional, or national levels.
As in prior
years, each PI is required to submit a 5-page report to be included
in the workshop proceedings, and submitted to NSF as an addendum to the
workshop final report and recommendations (which will be developed by
participants in break-out sessions during the afternoons of June 4th and
5th).
PIs are
also asked to submit a short one-paragraph abstract in which they
describe what they plan to include in their reports, and potentially present
to participants during the workshop. These abstracts will be used to plan
the various sessions and presentations of the workshop (including the
selection of presentation speakers).
Important
Dates
Themes for
Abstracts and Reports
THEME 1: Development and Management of Institutional Research
Infrastructures
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Novel and/or unique planned infrastructures targeting specific
applications or domains
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Best practices and lessons learned from mature project
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Managing research infrastructures beyond support period
THEME 2: Development of Human Resources
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Best practices and lessons learned in the development of members of
under-represented groups
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Collaboration models for connecting minority-serving institutions
with research institutions
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Experience and/or best practices in faculty development
THEME 3: Development of National Community Resources, Infrastructures
and Testbeds
THEME 4: CRI as a catalyst for advances in research and development
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Examples of advances in basic research that resulted from
infrastructure acquisition
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Examples of inter/intra-disciplinary collaborations that resulted
from infrastructure acquisition
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Examples of technology transfer/commercialization that resulted from
infrastructure acquisition
THEME 5: Role of Research Infrastructure in Education and Training
THEME 6: Research Methodology
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Impact of infrastructure acquisition on department culture,
visibility, and research portfolio
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Best practices and pitfalls in experimental computer science
research
Submission
Instructions
Abstract
Submission (Deadline: May 4, 2007)
Abstracts must be submitted in plain ASCII and must be no longer than
200 words. Each abstract should have a descriptive title and should
indicate the name of the investigator who will be presenting the work
(in case the award is selected for presentation).
To submit an abstract, please visit the abstract
submission page.
Report
Submission (Deadline: May 25, 2007)
Unlike
prior years, the content of the 5-page report for each award does not
have to follow a prescribed recipe. Rather, PIs are asked to produce a
report that addresses one (or more) of a number of themes (described
above) as they apply to their projects.
Please
note that the purpose of the report is to inform NSF and fellow PIs of
unique or interesting aspects of your project’s outcomes so far. In
particular, the report should not be an extended abstract of your
proposal, or a description of the acquired infrastructure, or a mere
version of your annual report. Rather, it should pick one or more of the
themes (described above) and discuss outcomes (or expected outcomes for
new proposals) along these dimensions.
The
format of the 5-page report is fairly flexible as long as it complies
with the following:
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Each report must start with a preamble that states clearly the award
number, award title, name of institution(s), PI/PD, and co-PI(s).
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The
report should be formatted for printing on 8.5x11 paper (portrait)
and should be submitted in PDF or PostScript formats.
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Pages should not be numbered and should have reasonable margins to
allow for binding and for the addition of page numbers.
To submit the report, please visit the report
submission page.
If you would like to check examples from prior
year reports, please refer to the
NSF-CRI'06 Proceedings. However, please note that as
described above, for 2007, PIs are encouraged to report on any aspects
of their projects (e.g., one or more of the themes described above),
without having to conform to a specific template (e.g., abstract,
motivations, goals, infrastructure description, etc.)
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