February 2-3, 2010 - Washington, DC  

Position papers

Participation in the workshop is by invitation only. Travel funds are available to invited participants if needed. Invitees are required to submit their position papers. Each position paper may not exceed 2 pages, and should conform to the following formatting requirements: 1) Times New Roman font type at a size of 11 points or larger; and 2) the margins must be at least one inch on all sides.


Participants from US national labs and universities

Pankaj Agarwal, Duke University [Bio] [Paper]

Luc Anselin, Arizona State University [Bio] [Paper]

Marc Armstrong, University of Iowa [Bio] [Paper]

Chaitan Baru, San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC)

David Bennett, University of Iowa [Bio] [Paper]

Budhendra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Bio] [Paper]

Chris Crosby, San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) [Paper]

Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University [Bio] [Paper]

Daniel W. Goldberg, University of Southern California [Bio] [Paper]

Mike Goodchild, University of California at Santa Barbara [Bio] [Paper]

Qingfeng (Gene) Guan, University of Nebraska – Lincoln [Paper]

Diansheng Guo, University of South Carolina [Bio] [Paper]

Hassan A. Karimi, University of Pittsburgh [Bio] [Paper]

Scott Lathrop, Argonne National Laboratory/National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Naicong Li, University of Redlands [Bio] [Paper]

Richard Marciano, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [Bio] [Paper]

Timothy Nyerges, University of Washington [Bio] [Paper]

Zhongren Peng, University of Florida [Bio] [Paper]

Robert Panoff, Shodor Education Foundation [Bio] [Paper]

James Pick, University of Redlands [Bio] [Paper]

Ruth Pordes, Fermi Lab [Bio] [Paper]

Steven D. Prager, University of Wyoming [Bio] [Paper]

Youliang Qiu, University of Florida [Paper]

Rob Raskin, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) [Bio] [Paper]

Chris Renschler, State University of New York Buffalo

Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota

Xuan Shi, Georgia Tech [Bio] [Paper]

Daniel Sui, Ohio State University [Bio] [Paper]

John Towns, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Ming-Hsiang Tsou, San Diego State University [Bio] [Paper]

Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign [Bio] [Paper]

Elizabeth A. Wentz, Arizona State University [Bio] [Paper]

Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin-Madison [Bio] [Paper]

Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, University of California at San Diego

James W. Wilson, James Madison University

Mike Worboys, University of Maine [Bio] [Paper]

Ningchuan Xiao, Ohio State University [Bio] [Paper]

Phil Yang, George Mason University [Bio] [Paper]

Xinyue Ye, Bowling Green State University [Bio] [Paper]

May Yuan, University of Oklahoma [Bio] [Paper]

Ilya Zaslavsky, San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) [Bio] [Paper]


Participants from government agencies

Department of Energy (DOE)

Lucy Nowell, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)

Susan Turnbull, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)


National Science Foundation (NSF)

Alan Blatecky, The Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)

Philip Bogden, The Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)

Scott M. Freundschuh, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)

Edward Seidel, The Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)

Maria Zemankova, Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)


U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Barbara Poore, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) [Bio] [Paper]

E. Lynn Usery, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) [Bio] [Paper]


Participants from industry

Baris Kazar, Oracle [Bio] [Paper]

Steve Kopp, ESRI (Geoprocessing and Spatial Analysis) [Bio] [Paper]


International participants

Bill Appelbe, Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC), Australia [Bio] [Paper]

Bin Jiang, University of Gävle (Sweden) [Bio] [Paper]