On November 5, 2008, Dr. Linda Hayden, Director of the Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research (CERSER) presented "Cyberinfrastructure, Remote Sensing, Collaboration and the PolarGrid" at the Cyberinfrastructure Day @ The University of Houston Downtown (UHD). Her presentation can be found at http://nia.ecsu.edu/ppt/ecsu-ciday-uhd.ppt.

CI-Days is sponsored by the NSF Minority Serving Institutions - CyberInfrastructure Empowerment Coalition (MSI-CIEC), a virtual organization that seeks to accelerate the development of a CI-related science and engineering workforce and broaden access particularly among traditionally underrepresented minority populations. "Cyberinfrastructure" describes research settings that support data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services over the Internet.

Some of the presenters at CI-Days@UHD included:

• Geoffrey C. Fox, Professor of Computer Science, Information Science and Physics, Community Grids Lab, Indiana University
• S. Lennart Johnsson, Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Texas Learning and Computation Center, University of Houston – main campus
• Robert M. Panoff, Executive Director, Shodor Foundation
• Krishna P. C. Madhaven, Assistant Professor of Engineering and Science Education
• Jack Ox, Research Professor and Artists in Residence at the ARTS Lab, University of New Mexico
• Alex Ramirez, Minority-serving Institutions Cyberinfrastructure Empowerment Coalition (MSI-CIEC) and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU)
• Margaret Shipley, Professor, Department of Management, Marketing and Business, University of Houston-Downtown
• Amelia A. Rouse, Institute for Public Policy, University of New Mexico

A full list of presenters can be found at: http://www.uhd.edu/computing/ciday/Agenda.pdf

Some of the presentations can be found at: http://www.uhd.edu/computing/ciday/index.html