Meeting purpose: Harnessing the Date Revolution for Vermont: The Science of Online Corpora,
Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) All Hands Meeting is designed to provide an opportunity for
the entire SOCKS community to summarize and review project progress, expand relationships,
and envision the future.
8:00 AM: Check-in and morning refreshments
8:30 AM: Welcome and updates
Chip Cole, VT EPSCoR State Director and SOCKS Principal Investigator (PI)
9:30 AM: Research team updates
Capacity – Peter Dodds, SOCKS Co-PI and Director, Vermont Complex Systems Inst.
Health – Bob Gramling, Team Lead
Social – Pablo Bose, Team Lead and Associate Dean, CAS
11:00 AM: Break
11:15 AM: VACC update
Chris Danforth, SOCKS Co-Principal Investigator and Director, VACC
11:35 AM: Broader Impacts Team updates
Regina Toolin, Lead, Graduate Certificate in Computer Science Education
Renee Simkins, STEM Program Manager
Maggie Jones, Education Outreach Coordinator
12:00 PM: Lunch and Poster Session
1:15: SOCKS research flash talks
Graduate Research Assistants (GRAs): Katie Grenon, Parisa Suchdev
SOCKS Pilot Grant awardees: Alex Garlick, Ellen Kozelka, Sam Zhang
New SOCKS faculty: Brennan Dell, Michelle Morgenstern
2:15 PM: Break
2:30 PM: Sustainability discussion
3:00 PM: External Evaluator and vRSV recommendations—discussion and next steps
4:00 PM: Closing comments
Chip Cole and Co-PIs, Chris Danforth, Peter Dodds, Randall Harp, Juniper Lovato
4:15 PM: Adjourn