Arriving on Sunday for the Northern Tier Academic Forum?

Join your colleagues at Boulder’s Walnut Brewery for great food and casual ambiance. People will begin arriving around 6:00 p.m. at the restaurant.

Boulders original brewpub and winner of the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Silver for St. James Irish Red in 2003 as well as the GABF Silver and Bronze for Old Elk Brown in 2002 and 1999. They located in the heart of Boulder with great food, great service & great people!

Just a block east of the St. Julien hotel at 1123 Walnut Street.

Monday, January 26

8:30 AM

Executive Committee Meeting

11:45 AM

Lunch

12:45 PM

Opening Remarks

Welcome and agenda (PPT)

1:15 PM

Quilt and MidNet Update (Carol Farnham)

Quilt-MIDnet Economic Development Success Stories (PDF)

1:45 PM

Cyberinfrastructure needs and NSF RFPs (Ron Kraemer and Gwen Jacobs)

2:30 PM

Break

3:00 PM

Internet2 and NTNC – Working Together As We Move Forward (Ana Preston, Rob Vietzke)

Internet2 and NTNC presentation (PPT)

3:45 PM

Internet2 Shared Resources Proposal (David Jent, Claude Garelik)

4:15 PM

Member Updates - What’s Happening on the Northern Tier

South Dakota report (PPT)
Washington report (PPT)

5:30 PM

Social Hour

6:30 PM

Dinner

Tuesday, January 27

7:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM

Brief Business Meeting

9:00 AM

Keynote - Kaye Howe (Director of the National Science Digital Library)

10:00 AM

Tech Team Presentation

10:45 AM

Morning Break

11:00 AM

Member Updates continued  - What’s Happening on the Northern Tier

Wisconsin report (PPT)

11:30 AM

Closing Remarks – Next Meeting (Fargo this summer)