Tools Workshop: San Diego Supercomputer Center, Oct 27th - 28th, 2003

You should plan on flying into the San Diego International Airport (SAN) which is about 15 miles south of La Jolla. The US government travel agency is going to take care of your flight reservations. Please fill out the registration form and Bruce Wardlaw will contact the travel agent with the list of people who are going to need plane tickets.

Shuttles are available from the airport to the workshop hotel and very convenient. Cloud 9 shuttles (http://www.cloud9shuttle.com/) provide transportation to and from La Jolla.

The workshop will take place at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (Room 462). Driving directions to SDSC are available here

Transportation between the hotel and SDSC has been arranged for the two days of the workshop.

A block of guestrooms has been reserved at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club (http://www.ljbtc.com). Please call the hotel at (800) 640-7702 or (858) 454-7126 (from overseas) to make a room reservation before October 6. Please note that the hotel is going to hold the rooms until then and it is not guaranteed that they will be available after that date. The room block is called "CHRONOS workshop". The hotel is directly billing CHRONOS for the room cost, so you only pay for incidentals.

Final agenda (PDF)

• CHRONOS "wish-list" of tools
• Balance between data gathering and development of new analytical tools for CHRONOS
• Establishing communication between IT specialists and geologists: what geologists do now and what they would like to be able to do with CHRONOS (tasks, problems, data needed, format of standard stratigraphic diagrams and computational methods in use)(brief presentations to precede discussion)
• Input and output formats, languages in which current tools are written, ways to launch or serve third party tools (in breakout sessions)
• How can we best encourage participation by analysts and tool developers (breakout sessions)
• How do we educate CHRONOS customers in the use of the toolbox, both educational and research-level applications (breakout sessions)
• Time table for the growth of the toolbox (short term, i.e. next 18 months, and longer term)