Dr. James Myers
Computational Science and Mathematics Department
Pacific Northwest National Labs

EMSI Visiting Scholar
October 4 - 7, 1999

Seminar: "eResearch: The Rise of Scientific Virtual Facilities"
Tuesday, October 5, 1999, 3:00pm, 209 Havemeyer

Collaboratories and Virtual Facilities are a new way of organizing and performing scientific work that holds tremendous promise. Researchers accessing these facilities remotely can securely control instruments, run analysis and visualization tools, store notes in a shared electronic notebook, and converse with colleagues using videoconferencing, whiteboards, and shared applications, as easily if they were onsite. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) is a new national user facility that is adopting the Collaboratory as a primary means of supporting users and interacting with collaborators and partners. The EMSL Virtual NMR Facility, already being discussed as a national model for future NMR facilities, provides a good example of the state-of-the-art, and of the specific benefits that can be obtained.

(Details of the EMSL Virtual Facilities efforts are available at http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/collab/.)