Friday, October 21, 2005
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Agenda
Panel 1 – “Innovations in Reference”
Panel 2 – “Collections in Transition”
Panel 3 – ” New Strategies for Instruction & Outreach”
Tours
Earthquake Simulation Facility (Ketter Hall)
The Earthquake Simulation Facility, in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo has an extensive earthquake simulation, structural, and geotechnical engineering testing facility that is a key node in a nationwide earthquake engineering “collaboratory” – the National Science Foundation’s “Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation” (NEES). Opened in fall 2004, the $21 million dollar facility includes 2 “shake tables” capable of real-time seismic testing of structures up to 120 feet in length and 30 feet in height. This facility investigates how monumental buildings, bridges, and other structures behave during quakes. Our tour will include viewing a short video and seeing a shake table laboratory.
Center for Computational Research (Norton Hall)
The University at Buffalo’s Center for Computational Research (CCR) was created in 1998 to enable research and scholarship at UB, provide cross-disciplinary outreach and training in computational and information sciences, and to effect technology transfer among a broad range of local enterprises requiring high-end computing, data storage, networking, and visualization in the areas of science, engineering, media, finance, law, medicine, management, and architecture, to name just a few. CCR supports computational-intensive research via its staff and supercomputing resources. Efforts in visualization support work in high-performance computing (from the desktop to high-end state-of-the-art display devices) and in virtual reality.