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IMAG/MSM Working Group on Multiscale Modeling and Viral Pandemics Mini Seminars

May 5, 2022

Welcome - The meeting will start at 3PM ET

 

NOTE: THE MEETING WILL BE RECORDED, STREAMED AND PUBLICLY AVAILABLE�FOR THOSE UNABLE TO ATTEND

Agenda

  1. Welcome
  2. Links, people, other info
  3. Social media links
  4. Quick Announcements
  5. Upcoming Mini-Seminars and Request for Future Speakers
  6. Hayden Fennel, Indiana University. �Creating educational materials for cloud-based tools: Aligning audience and learning objectives
  7. Request for Further Business

 

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People

Co-Lead: Reinhard Laubenbacher, PhD

Department of Medicine

Laboratory for Systems Medicine

University of Florida

reinhard.laubenbacher@medicine.ufl.edu

Co-Lead: James A. Glazier, PhD

Dept. of Intelligent Systems Engineering and Biocomplexity Institute

Indiana University, Bloomington

jaglazier@gmail.com

Web Administration, Slack: James P. Sluka, PhD

Dept. of Intelligent Systems Engineering and Biocomplexity Institute

Indiana University, Bloomington

jsluka@indiana.edu

Activities Coordination: Lorenzo Veschini, PhD

King’s College London

lorenzo.veschini@gmail.com

 

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Please follow the�group on Twitter!

https://twitter.com/MsmViral

If you could re-tweet the weekly announcements �(there are usually two, one for each speaker) �that would help boost attendance and community awareness.

 

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Announcements

Any short (~1 minute) items such as;

  • announcements
  • meetings
  • funding
  • publications
  • requests for help

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Schedule for Upcoming Meetings and mini-Seminars

May 12:

  1. Joy Phillips.
  2. TBD

May 19:

  1. Qiang Zhang, Emory University.
  2. TBD

May 26:

  1. TBD
  2. TBD

June 2:

  1. Gary An, University of Vermont.
  2. TBD

Request for future speakers (May 12, …)

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Mini-SeminarCreating educational materials for cloud-based tools:�Aligning audience and learning objectives

Hayden FennelIndiana University

Cloud-based simulation tools enable easy and accessible use of complicated computational software to students, instructors, and experienced researchers alike. However, developing effective instructional content to include alongside online simulations can pose both conceptual and technological challenges, as audiences of cloud-based simulation software often represent a wide variety of backgrounds and experience levels. This session will introduce theory and best practices for the development and deployment of meaningful supporting resources for online simulation tools. An overview method for developing computational learning activities will be discussed, along with suggestions for scalable, education-focused documentation strategies and other supports. Practical examples from current nanoBIO tools on nanoHUB will be provided. Attendees are encouraged to bring thoughts and/or questions about instructional content for their own simulation tools (current or prospective) for discussion.

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Requests for Input/Suggestions

  

 

We would like the subgroup leads to prepare brief presentations for the Thursday meetings, please let us know when you would like to present

Ideas/help for publicising our Thursday mini-seminars more effectively and for speakers to invite

Suggestions for agenda items and approaches to organizing the Steering Committee Meetings more effectively

There have also been a number of requests for more explicit statements of goals and tasks from the WG leadership, we would appreciate your suggestions

Please contact Reinhard Laubenbacher, James Glazier, James Sluka or Lorenzo Veschini with your ideas on all of these issues

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