Gateways 2021 Call for Community Participation
Deadline: September 22, 2021

Gateways 2021 (October 19-21) is planned as an opportunity to influence the vision and mission of the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI), the gateways community, and the Gateways Conference series. It will offer diverse options for sharing work and networking in the community. The format includes tutorial sessions, panels, presentations in the form of lightning talks, and working sessions.
 
We invite the submission of abstracts related to science gateways, which are end-to-end solutions with easy-to-use interfaces enabling the application of complex research infrastructures such as computing and data infrastructures, instruments, and other domain-specific resources to support research and education. They may also be known as portals, virtual research environments, eScience, virtual labs, eResearch, digital repositories, or research cyberinfrastructure.
 
Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Architectures, frameworks, and technologies for science gateways
• Science gateways sustaining productive, collaborative communities
• Support for scalability and data-driven methods in science gateways
• Improving the reproducibility of science in science gateways
• Science gateway usability, portals, workflows, and tools
• Software engineering approaches for scientific work
• Aspects of science gateways, such as security and stability
• AI and ML for science gateways
• Social research on science gateways
• Use cases and lessons learned from science gateways

All submissions are due on September 22, 2021.
 
Read more details in the Call for Community Participation: http://sciencegateways.org/gateways2021/call

South Big Data Hub Webinar: HUBzero Open Data Portal with Social Media Macroscope, PURR, and nanoHUB

Save the date for September 15th from 2-3 pm ET | 11 am - 12 pm PT for a special webinar hosted by the South Big Data Hub.

We will be joined by three hub leads to present how hubs can be used as open data portals:

• Joseph Yun with Social Media Macroscope
• Sandi Caldrone with the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR)
• Alejandro Strachan with nanoHUB

nanoHUB Seeking Marketing and Community Engagement Specialist

The Network for Computational Nanotechnology is a small team of professionals based at Purdue University’s Discovery Park who operates nanoHUB.org. The team is seeking a skilled designer, communicator, promoter, and tech-savvy multi-tasker who will support and grow a global user community and contribute to nanoHUB's long-term sustainability efforts. Apply via the link below.

Marketing and Community Engagement Specialist - Network for Computational Nanotechnology
 

Interested in sharing updates about your hub?

An open call to all of our community members! Share with us the content you would like to post (or repost) through our HUBzero Twitter account. We want to help highlight your work and new opportunities. 

Interested? Contact Claire Stirm (cstirm@ucsd.edu) to learn more.
 

Thermo-Calc Educational Package now available in nanoHUB

nanoHUB is pleased to announce that the Thermo-Calc Software Educational Package is now available for online simulations, free of charge at nanoHUB.org, through a collaboration between Thermo-Calc Software AB and nanoHUB. 

This package is intended for teaching and learning basic thermodynamic and kinetic theory and includes a limited version of the Thermo-Calc software, a collection of demo databases, and educational material for both the software and the theory. 

An advantage to running the Thermo-Calc Software Educational Package in nanoHUB is that no local downloading or installation of the software is required. Just sign up for a free nanoHUB account, read the requirements specified in the Thermo-Calc Academic group in nanoHUB, https://nanohub.org/groups/tcacademic, and request group membership to run this free online software package in nanoHUB.

Please share this information with other instructors who may be interested!