Interview with Dr. Yan Xu, World-Renowned Researcher and Educational Leader

re: Interview with Dr. Yan Xu, World-Renowned Researcher and Educational Leader

TL — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:34:36 GMT

What is McGill doing in this area?

re: Interview with Dr. Yan Xu, World-Renowned Researcher and Educational Leader

Stephen Ibaraki — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:17:47 GMT

McGill is undertaking a number of innovative programs. Yan talked about them after the podcast and we talked about doing a follow-up with McGill. I'll check with Yan and see if she can provided added insight.

Thank you for the question.

Cheers,

Stephen

re: Interview with Dr. Yan Xu, World-Renowned Researcher and Educational Leader

E I — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:05:56 GMT

Are there any plans to take this to Asia?

re: Interview with Dr. Yan Xu, World-Renowned Researcher and Educational Leader

Yan Xu — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:29:37 GMT

Dr. Renee Sieber, a true interdisciplinary researcher/educator at McGill, attended CEfS2007 (see http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/CEfS2007) last year and contributed a great deal at the all-hands-on workshop. After that, Renee connected with Dr. Sue Whitesides, Director of the School of Computer Science at McGill. Sue and Renee came up with a creative format of enabling active communication and engagement among researchers from various disciplines at McGill: they host a "TAG party" every month or so. The next TAG party is on April 14, which is sponsored by Microsoft.

The "TAG party" is part of the research project that Sue is currently collaborating with CEfS at Microsoft Research.

Dr. Erica Besso, the Research Innovation Officer at the Faculty of Science of McGill, was the one who connected me with Renee, Sue, and others at McGill. With the support and guidance from Dr. Whitesides and Dr. Besso, McGill and Microsoft Research are working together on establishing computational interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers and educators in Computer Science, Chemistry, Physics, and potentially Social Science.

Thank you for the question. Please feel free to contact us at msr-cefs@microsoft.com.

re: Interview with Dr. Yan Xu, World-Renowned Researcher and Educational Leader

Yan Xu — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:19:04 GMT

The status of computational education for scientists varies from country to country and from culture to culture. Therefore, at this early stage, our proof of concept are mainly done by focusing on the universities in the states.

The CEfS program is however designed to serve the academic community worldwide. We plan to invite thought leaders in this area from Asia to join us at the next annual workshop, CEfS2008 and go from there. Details of CEfS2008 will come soon on our Website.

Your question is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

re: Interview with Dr. Yan Xu, World-Renowned Researcher and Educational Leader

Stephen Ibaraki — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:55:06 GMT

EI, I talked with Yan about this and she indicated she will be responding. Thank you for your question.

Cheers,

Stephen

re: Interview with Dr. Yan Xu, World-Renowned Researcher and Educational Leader

Stephen Ibaraki — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:36:49 GMT

Yan, I do appreciate you taking the time to provide ready reponses to questions.

Thank you,

Stephen