Louisiana's Research Infrastructure Improvement Strategy

路易斯安那州EPSCoR研究基础设施改进项目的目标是通过建立全州范围的研究和信息技术基础设施，将选定的科学实力领域与网络基础设施（CI）工具的开发相结合，推进全州高等教育机构的跨学科研究。 具体的项目目标是：（1）开发四个重点学科交叉研究项目的核心，将理论和实验研究联系起来，推动CI发展，同时为对国家经济至关重要的科学做出贡献;（2）开发四个模块化的网络工具，以促进数据的管理和挖掘，复杂模拟的开发，可视化的改进，和共享的计算，网络，数据和可视化资源的调度;和（3）创建一个综合的教育计划，整合拟议的研究，以造福K-12，本科生和研究生，博士后研究人员和教师。 该项目侧重于两个主要方面：（1）研究企业和（2）教育和外联。 研究企业。 该项目由两个科学研究主题驱动：（1）传感器和系统;（2）模拟和建模。 这两个主题是四个协同的跨学科研究项目和四个模块化网络工具的基础。 跨学科研究。 这四个跨学科研究项目是：（1）生物技术研究（DNA诊断和法医学）的扩展，在由以前的EPSCoR资助建立的生物模块化多尺度系统中心进行，（2）基于抗体的生物传感器设计和制造，（3）计算流体动力学/视网膜研究，以及（4）飓风和风暴潮预测。 这些项目在某些领域重叠，如计算流体动力学、分子动力学以及硬件（网络、计算机和分布式文件系统）和软件（数据管理、门户、可视化和仿真）中的CI要求。 开发网络工具。 拟议的研究企业的这一组成部分，旨在推进拟议的跨学科研究项目的各个方面，包括四个工作包，旨在促进（1）调度和数据服务，（2）信息服务和门户网站，（3）可视化服务，以及（4）应用服务，工具包和算法的开发。 教育和推广。 教育和推广（E O）的努力旨在刺激长期的研究竞争力的终身制轨道初级教师和学生，并从事路易斯安那州的大量人口代表性不足的少数民族在干职业。 一个广泛的E O活动提供研究和学习的机会，高等教育的教师和学生，以及各种活动从事K-12学生和一般人群。

The goal of the Louisiana EPSCoR research infrastructure improvement project is to advance interdisciplinary research across the State's institutions of higher education by establishing a statewide research and information technology infrastructure that integrates selected areas of scientific strength with development of cyberinfrastructure (CI) tools. The specific project objectives are: (1) to develop a core of four focused interdisciplinary research projects that link theoretical and experimental investigation and drive CI development, while contributing to science that is critical to the State's economy; (2) to develop four modular cyber tools that facilitate management and mining of data, development of complex simulations, improvements in visualization, and the scheduling of shared computational, network, data, and visualization resources; and (3) to create a comprehensive educational program that integrates the proposed research to benefit K-12, undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty. The project focuses on two major thrusts: (1) Research Enterprise and (2) Education and Outreach. Research Enterprise. The project is driven by two science research themes: (1) sensors and systems and (2) simulation and modeling. These two themes underlie the development of four synergistic, interdisciplinary research projects and four modular cyber tools. Interdisciplinary Research. The four interdisciplinary research projects are: (1) the expansion of biotechnology research (DNA diagnostics and forensics) conducted at the Center for Biomodular Multiscale Systems established by the previous EPSCoR grant, (2) antibody-based biosensor design and fabrication, (3) computational fluid dynamics/retinal research, and (4) hurricane- and storm-surge prediction. These projects overlap in areas, such as computational fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics , and CI requirements in both hardware (networks, computers, and distributed file systems) and software (data management, portals, visualization, and simulation). Development of Cyber Tools. This component of the proposed research enterprise, intended to advance all aspects of the proposed interdisciplinary research projects, includes four Work Packages that are designed to facilitate development of (1) scheduling and data services, (2) information services and portals, (3) visualization services, and (4) application services, toolkits, and algorithms. Education and Outreach. Education and outreach (E&O) efforts are designed to stimulate long-term research competitiveness of tenure-track junior faculty and students, and to engage Louisiana's large population of underrepresented minorities in STEM careers. A broad range of E&O activities provide research and study opportunities for higher education faculty and students, as well as various activities engage K-12 students and the general population.