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LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 1

LIGO-GXXXXXX-XX-X

GriPhyN Outreach Program

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LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 2

LIGO-GXXXXXX-XX-X

UT Brownsville

• Newest component of University of Texas system (1992)

• Minority serving institution (> 85% Hispanic)• Rapidly growing physical sciences department• Close ties with LIGO:

» Member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC)

» NSF grant to integrate research/education between UTB & LIGO

» Students spend summers at LIGO Livingston Observatory (LLO)

» Constructing Beowulf cluster (~64 node) for LIGO data analysis

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LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 3

LIGO-GXXXXXX-XX-X

Outreach/Education Coordinator

• New tenure-track faculty member at UT Brownsville• Physicist (or computer scientist??)• No teaching responsibilities during first 5 years• Research experience in any of the following areas:

» Data analysis of large data sets

» Parallel or distributed computing

» Computational physics (e.g., numerical relativity)

• Begin search immediately!

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LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 4

LIGO-GXXXXXX-XX-X

Responsibilities

• Technical support for GriPhyN software:» Installation instructions

» User’s manuals

» CVS repositories

• Point of contact for other interested universities:» Passive: assist when needed

» Active: target other minority serving institutions– UT Pan American (HEP: CESR-CLEO project at Cornell)– UT El Paso (joint Master’s degree in physics)– Louisiana Tech (LIGO: seismometer data)– Southeastern Louisiana, Southern University (LIGO)– Others??

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LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 5

LIGO-GXXXXXX-XX-X

Responsibilities (cont.)

• Coordinate with LIGO outreach program:» Extend LIGO outreach at LLO to include GriPhyN

• Outreach web page:» Technical support information

» Educational material

» On-line analysis of real data

• Interface between physics and IT researchers:» Integrate LIGO data analysis at UTB into GriPhyN framework

• Others?? (Visitor program)