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Join us for a full day event hosted at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, PA to explore new collaborative opportunities and available advanced cyberinfrastructure resources to help elevate your computational research and STEM education.
Learn more about how the Pennsylvania Regional Science DMZ (PA Science DMZ) will accelerate computational research and enhance STEM education and how to access and utilize the free advanced cyberinfrastructure resources.
When: Tues. September 9, 2025
Where: Bucks County Community College, Gallagher Room, Newtown, PA
Audience: The event is targeted to faculty and IT staff at Bucks County Community College and local colleges and universities across Pennsylvania and the region.
Agenda:
8:30 am Registration, Networking and Coffee
9:00 am Welcome to Bucks County Community College, Joe Shannon, Executive Director, IT
9:15 am Evolution of Campus Architectures and Definition of Problem Statement Specific to Community Colleges and Higher Ed,
Wayne Figurelle, Penn State University, and Dr. Jason Simms, Swarthmore College
9:45 am Introduction and Overview of the Science DMZ Architecture, the Science DMZ Toolset and Featured Use Cases, Ken Miller
Chief Technology Officer, KeystoneREN
10:15 am Community College Use Cases (Example Use Cases from across the region and the country)
11:00 am BREAK
11:15 am Resources and Funding for Research and Educators presented by the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, Dr. Amy
Apon, Program Director in the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
12:00 pm LUNCH (Solarium Room)
Lunch Breakouts will be by Domain Areas (Physics, Computer Science, CryoEM/Remote Instrumentation/Remote
Measurements, Biology, CyberSecurity, and Advanced Manufacturing) and Technology Focused Areas (Securing the Science
DMZ, Network Performance and Monitoring)
1:15 pm Overview of Federations: InCommon and eduroam, Internet2, Kevin Morooney, Vice President for Trust and Identity, Internet2
Romy Bolton, Interim Associate Vice President for Trust and Identity, Internet2
2:15 pm Globus for Secure Data Transfer and Educational Use Cases / perfSONAR and Data Transfer Nodes (DTNs) for Performant
Science and STEM Education
3:30 pm BREAK
3:45 pm Science Engagement Strategies – Best Practices for Supporting Faculty and Research and Education Use Cases of Science
DMZ
4:45 pm Q&A/Wrap-up/Next Steps
5:00 pm Workshop Concludes
Optional Tour of Bucks County Community College Data Center for those interested will be led by Bucks County Community
College IT staff.
About the PA Science DMZ:
The NSF funded (Award #2346589) Pennsylvania Regional Science DMZ (PA Science DMZ) project provides critical infrastructure and connectivity that enables and enhances access for under resourced PA institutions of higher education to cyberinfrastructure-based resources and services in support of science driven research and education applications.