________________________________ From: Tanner, Catherine A Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:57 PM Subject: FW: Chris Greer Lecture This message is being forwarded at the request of the Cyber Center. Chris Greer Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) National Science Foundation December 19, 2006 Lecture: 10:00-11:00 a.m. Q&A: 11:00 a.m. - 12 p.m. Fowler Hall in Stewart Center Sponsored by the Libraries Co-sponsors College of Agriculture The Network for Computational Nanotechnology Department of Computer Science Discovery Park Cyber Center College of Engineering ITaP College of Science Department of Statistics College of Technology Do you have plans for managing your data? Learn about the discussion now taking place at NSF "A Vision for the Digital Data Universe" Dr. Christopher L. Greer, Program Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure, will discuss the current status of the universe of digital scientific data, the strategic vision of the National Science Foundation for data, and the possible roles of the universities and academic libraries in the digital scientific data arena.