Co-Sponsored by theUMDNJ IAIMS Project, Informatics Institute andDepartment of Information Services & Technology

As a member of the Internet2 consortium, UMDNJ is now connected to over 200 leading edge academic institutions in the United States through an advanced, high bandwidth, low latency network, purpose-built to support research and education, and to provide a framework for the emergence of even higher performance networks in the future. At the same time, IST in collaboration with the schools and units is completing its own next generation network to support increasing demands for performance, reliability and security. The convergence of these two developments, facilitated through our connection to NJEDge.Net, the State's Higher Education Network, translates into new capabilities, not only within the confines of Internet2, but within the University and among our collaborators across the State of New Jersey and beyond. The objective of this day is to introduce these new capabilities, stimulate awareness in "next generation applications" and the ways they can advance our research and educational agendas and provide practical information for getting started in this new arena of high bandwidth communication.

Monday, November 14, 2005 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), Newark, NJ

	Introduction to Internet2 Jennifer McDougall, Associate Director, Mid Atlantic GigaPOP (MAGPI) Clinical Applications and Internet2 Michael McGill, Health Sciences Program Manager, Internet2.
	New Jersey State Higher Education Network George, Laskaris, Executive Director, NJEDge.Net
	Integrating Heterogeneous Data:  What does Game Theory have to do with JAK/STAT? Dr. Nancy Connell, Professor and Vice-chair for Research Department of Medicine, UMDNJ/NJMS and Director, UMDNJ Center for BioDefense at NJMS; Dr. Alexander Izaguirre, Director of Research Technology Development, NJMS-UH Cancer Center. Immersive Segmentation (may require Quicktime)