Hi all, Sorry for this late announcement! We hope to see everyone this Thursday, 11/19.
=== Our next Research IT Reading Group <https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/istrit/Research+IT+Reading+Group> topic will be: CITRIS and the Pacific Research Platform. *When:* Thursday, November 19th from noon - 1pm *Where:* 200C Warren Hall, 2195 Hearst St (see building access instructions on parent page <https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/istrit/Research+IT+Reading+Group>). *Event format:* The reading group is a brown bag lunch (bring your own) with a short <20 min talk followed by ~40 min group discussion. *Presenter:* Camille Crittenden, Deputy Director of CITRIS at the UC Berkeley campus. *Facilitator: *David Greenbaum, Research IT Camille will present a brief overview of CITRIS. CITRIS is the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). CITRIS is a UC-wide science center that includes UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz. She will also present the newly funded Pacific Research Platform and the inaugural workshop that took place last month. This reading group will focus on questions of how to support multi-campus research at UC and how to engage faculty with these programs. ==== *Please browse the following prior to our 11/19 meeting:* - CITRIS website: http://citris-uc.org/ - overview of the Pacific Research Platform <http://citris-uc.org/connected-communities/project/pacific-research-platform-uc-san-diego-uc-berkeley-lead-creation-of-west-coast-big-data-freeway-system/> - “Building the Pacific Research Platform: A Workshop Towards Deploying a Science-Driven Regional ‘Big Data Freeway’’ <https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/download/attachments/121310638/Workshop%20Report_Session%20Descriptions%20151106-tom-11-9-15-smaller.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1447708947519&api=v2>
