The second annual TeraGrid conference, being held June 4-8 in Madison, Wisconsin, will provide the scientific community with opportunities for knowledge sharing, collaboration and technologies to enable scientific discovery using the resources of the TeraGrid. Daniel E. Atkins, director of the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure, will speak at TeraGrid '07. His talk, on the morning of June 6, is titled "The Ubiquitous TeraGrid: Everywhere but Nowhere." Atkins chaired the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure that in 2003 issued the landmark "Atkins Report" recommending an Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Program to revolutionize science and engineering research and education. The recent NSF Cyberinfrastructure Council's "Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery" builds on this theme.

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