Summer 2009 Developers Workshop
Attendee Application for thermalHUB Summer 2009 Developers Workshop
Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation
thermalHUB.org is the web portal for new project funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to define the elements of a cyberinfrastructure initiative that will serve the global heat transfer community. In Summer 2007, nearly twenty members of the heat transfer community collaborated on a successful proposal to the NSF to obtain a two-year planning grant that will support the definition and development of a wide range of innovative cyberinfrastructure resources for our community. These resources are being consolidated through this web portal, whose basic structure is modeled after the successful nanoHUB.org implementation.
We are now in the development stage of this exciting resource, and we are reaching out to members of the global heat transfer community to help them develop and publish tools, ranging from basic to advanced levels, that would be of value to our field. This developers workshop is intended to teach participants how to develop user interfaces for web-based deployment on thermalHUB. Various types of tools could be developed. For example, they could involve computational simulations of heat transfer physics, or a guided catalog of heat transfer correlations. The tools simply need to be amenable to web deployment (typically through our custom-developed Rappture software), and the developers can decide whether they provide the basic source code or just the executables. If you or someone in your group would like to develop such a tool, please complete the application form on this site (click Apply here or above). Travel funds from the NSF grant will be available to participants from academia.
Workshop Dates: Monday, 22 June 2009 through Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Application Due Date EXTENDED: 15 April 2009
Formal Invitations Issued by: 20 April 2009
Whether or not you are able to attend the workshop, we sincerely hope that you will ultimately find this resource to be rich in content and useful in your work. Please return to this site regularly as new resources are posted, and we welcome your input and contributions to thermalHUB as this initiative moves forward.
With kind regards and on behalf of the NSF proposal team (listed below),
Tim Fisher
Director, thermalHUB.org
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
tsfisher@purdue.edu
Members of the NSF proposal team
- Gang Chen (MIT)
- Chris Dames (UC-Riverside)
- Andrei Fedorov (GaTech)
- Timothy Fisher (Purdue)
- Suresh Garimella (Purdue)
- Costas Grigoropoulos (UC-Berkeley)
- Scott Huxtable (VaTech)
- Deyu Li (Vanderbilt)
- Jennifer Lukes (UPenn)
- Arun Majumdar (UC-Berkeley)
- Michael McLennan (Purdue)
- Pinar Menguc (Kentucky)
- Jayathi Murthy (Purdue)
- Laurent Pilon (UCLA)
- Xiulin Ruan (Purdue)
- Li Shi (UT-Austin)
- Raymond Viskanta (Purdue)
- Greg Walker (Vanderbilt)
- Xianfan Xu (Purdue)