CENS External Advisory Board Meeting
January 14, 2005
UCLA Campus in room 6764 Boelter Hall, Rice Meeting Room
Agenda
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:40 Welcome and Introductions of EAB members (Deborah Estrin)
8:40 – 10:10 CENS Update
A) CENS Technology and Science Overview of last years (15 min) (Deborah Estrin)
B) Discuss EAB meeting agenda/goal: EAB input into integrated functional system objectives, and funding/marketing strategies (10 min) (Deborah Estrin)
C) Plenary discussion with area leads (technology and applications) on key focus, plans, issues, concerns. (Set of 2-viewgraph presentations, 5 min each): Sensors (YC Tai), Signal/Theory (Greg Pottie), Systems (Mani Srivastava), Actuation (Gaurav Sukhatme), Seismic (Paul Davis), Contam (Michael Hamilton for Tom Harmon), Marine (Dave Caron), Ecosystems (Michael Hamilton))
10:10-10:30 Morning break
10:30-12 Breakout 1—parallel sessions
1A) Develop a plan for synthesizing and focusing CENS activities as embedded cyberinfrastructure designer for national observatories (NEON, CLEANER, Ocean Observing Systems, Earthscope…).
• Define functional requirements for “CENS-in-a-box”, including Emissary interface
• Include a discussion of funding prospects and tactics, competitive analysis and collaborative opportunities, wrt other research efforts in the US and Internationally.
• Produce 2 slides summarizing comments for each of the above bullets for discussion at Plenary
(Discussion leads: Dave Caron, Richard Guy; Faculty participants: Paul Davis, Michael Hamilton, Greg Pottie, Gaurav Sukhatme)
1B) Develop a plan for potential CENS new activities in medical-research/out-patient-observation and medical informatics.
• Define functional requirements for “CENS-in-a-box”, including Emissary interface to out-patient observation.
• Include a discussion of funding prospects and tactics, competitive analysis and collaborative opportunities, wrt other research efforts in the US and Internationally.
• Produce 2 slides summarizing comments for each of the above bullets for discussion at Plenary (Discussion lead: Bill Kaiser, Mani Srivastava; Faculty participants: Jack Judy, Ari Requicha, YC Tai)
12-1:30 Lunch and Poster Session (Gaurav Sukhatme)
1:30-3:00 Discuss breakout activities in Plenary (Deborah Estrin, Bill Kaiser)
• Systems ideas generated during breakouts
• Funding/competitive analysis ideas generated during breakouts; as well as discussion of broader funding opportunities and issues wrt DARPA/DHS, NIH, NASA, NSF
3-3:30 Afternoon Break
4:00-4:30 Portfolio review process (Ari Requicha)
A) Review process plans
B) Discuss EAB feedback
4:30-5:00 Planning for Follow-up (Deborah Estrin)
• Action items for CENS REC
• EAB: Chair, Subgroup Activities, Semi-annual Teleconference – July, 2005
(Optional: 5:00 Community college recruiting and research internship (Debra Bowen, Karen Kim, Deborah, Greg)
Logistics
The CENS EAB Meeting will be held on the UCLA Campus in room 4760 Boelter Hall on Friday, January 14, 2005. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. with welcome and introductions. Continental breakfast will be available beginning at around 7:45 a.m. if you plan to arrive early.
Hotel Accommodations
A block of rooms has been reserved at:
Doubletree Hotel - Westwood
10740 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90024
310 475-8711
For reservations, please call 1-800-472-8556 or 310- 475-8711, ext.7117.
The UC System rate is $110.00 single/double occupancy plus tax and all costs will be charged to a central invoice.
Check-in time is 3:00pm and checkout time is 11:00am. Special rate includes the shuttle to & from campus and the hotel is walking distance to the UCLA campus.
For hotel information on-line, visit the website at:
Directions from the hotel:
You have a couple options on how to get to the UCLA campus for the meeting. If you like to walk and are feeling adventurous, Boelter Hall on the UCLA campus is a moderately short distance from the hotel (about a mile or so). The best way is:
WALKING: From your hotel, go west down Wilshire Boulevard west to Westwood Boulevard (left as you walk out of the hotel). At Westwood Boulevard, turn right and cross Wilshire Boulevard. Stay on right hand side of Westwood (east side) and walk straight down Westwood Boulevard onto the UCLA campus (past Medical Center). After you pass the Medical Center and cross Charles E. Young Drive, you’ll see parking lot 9 on your right hand side. Just past lot 9 will be a walkway and driveway to the south of the Engineering IV Building. Take this walkway down past the Engineering building (between lot 9 and the engineering building) and the back side of Boelter Hall will be to your left directly behind the engineering building. Go into the south side door of Boelter Hall and take the elevator to the 4th floor. The meeting room will be directly across from the elevator (4760).
If you don’t feel like walking, the hotel also has a complimentary shuttle to the UCLA campus. The shuttle will depart the hotel at around 7:10 a.m., and every 15 minutes after that, and will drop you off at the shuttle stop near the Engineering IV building. As above for walking, take the walkway at the south side of the engineering building (between the building and parking lot 9) and the back side of Boelter Hall will be to your left directly behind the engineering building. Go into the south side door of Boelter Hall and take the elevator to the 4th floor. The meeting room will be directly across from the elevator (4760). For any questions regarding the hotel shuttle, please see the concierge or anyone at the front desk.
Maps And Directions
- Printable map of the UCLA campus
- Detailed map of the UCLA campus (Boelter Hall can be found by clicking on the CORE-SOUTH selection of the campus map)
- More information on UCLA and additional campus maps and information can be found at
- Driving directions to the UCLA campus
Driving directions to meeting site at Boelter Hall:
From the 405 Freeway, take Wilshire Boulevard eastbound to Westwood Boulevard and turn left. Continue straight on Westwood Boulevard past the UCLA Medical Center until you reach the parking kiosk to your left on the UCLA campus. There will be a parking garage (Lot 9) on your right and Boelter Hall is to the northeast of Lot 9 and directly behind the Engineering IV Building which will also be to your right.
If you are attending from off-campus and need campus parking, you will simply drive to the kiosk as mentioned above and tell the attendant you are here for the CENS EAB. The confirmation number is 104714. The attendant will give you a parking pass and direct you to the lot 9 parking garage.
(If you have a UCLA blue parking permit, please display it for free parking in the garage. Only blue permit parkers are eligible for free parking at a non-assigned parking area. All other UCLA personnel must park in their assigned lot and walk to Boelter Hall. )
