The Shodor Foundation will be responsible for the management of the administration and implementation of the Institute. We will establish an Advisory Committee which will ensure representation and participation of member institutions of the Associated Colleges of the South and the Carolinas Consortium for Computational Science.

B4.3.1 The Shodor Instructional Team

Consider a large container ship at anchor in a deep harbor, loading and unloading its wares to other ships who pull along side to exchange cargo. This is a model for our instructional team and workshop design. Just as the cargo ship puts down four well spaced anchors to keep it from drifting while engaged in its interchange of goods, so we have adopted the notion of anchors for our instructional team, individuals who make sure that each aspect of the interdisciplinary workshop is addressed and who together keep the project from drifting too far in one direction or another. The anchors of our Instructional Team are: Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Education. Each of the individuals heading up one of these areas has extensive experience in the use of networks for consultation, collaboration, and instructional delivery, and is an active member of the Shodor Foundation board of directors.

Dr. Robert M. Panoff will serve as Project Director and science anchor. Dr. Panoff is a computational physicist and president of The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.. He continues as a consultant for the NCSA Education group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A leader in national reform efforts to integrate HPCC technologies in science education, he designed and directed the NSF-funded Carolinas Summer Institute in Computational Science. He has served on numerous NSF advisory and review panels, including the Advisory Panel for Applications of Advanced Technology. Dr. Panoff will be responsible for the SCSI curriculum and project promotion and will serve as the primary contact for the Advisory Committee.

Dr. Daniel D. Warner will serve as the mathematics anchor. Dr. Warner is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University where he has been instrumental in the development of the interdisciplinary computational science course which continues to test many of our materials. He received the 1976 Alston S. Householder Award for his doctoral dissertation on Hermite interpolation with rational functions. His current research areas encompass sparse matrices, solving separable elliptic equations, and many areas of applied mathematics which incorporate parallel computing. Dr. Warner has served as a consultant to supercomputing centers and computer companies in the design of computational science education materials.

Dr. D. E. Stevenson will serve as the computer science anchor. Dr. Stevenson is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Clemson University and an advisor to the Strom Thurmond Institute of Public Policy. His research interests are oriented towards two aspects of programming: a) the design and development of programming languages to support high-performance computing primarily distributed processing and b) theoretical issues relating to computation in science. Dr. Stevenson is co-developer with Drs. Panoff and Warner of the Clemson Computational Science Program and has also been a consultant on issues related to parallel computing education and the design of computational science education materials.

Dr. Holly P. Hirst will serve as project co-director and as the education anchor. An assistant professor of mathematics at Appalachian State University, Dr. Hirst was one of the first graduates of the computational science workshops offered by Panoff, Warner, and Stevenson. In 1997 she shared the Annenberg/CPB INPUT Award for the development of outstanding mathematics curricular materials. She has used and improved the various computational case studies developed by Shodor with her students. Dr. Hirst will be the primary editor of the modeling modules, and will share her considerable experience with using modeling to teach pre-service and in-service mathematics teachers.

B4.3.2 Other Personnel

In each workshop, we expect to include faculty who are graduates from our previous institutes or workshops, enabling new faculty to hear about the experiences of real teachers who have used real models and computational methods in real classrooms. In addition, we will work with faculty from Clemson University whose expertise is in team building dynamics, to assist with building of interdisciplinary teams.