May 2026

Inside ACCESS is a monthly newsletter produced for all ACCESS program staff. It contains programwide announcements and updates from each of the program's service areas. Questions or comments? Email us at communications@access-ci.org.

In this Issue

• Virtual Quarterly Meeting
• AI for Science Survey
• Countdown to PEARC26

Opportunities

Events & Trainings

Community Announcements

Login & Registration Updates Coming

When the Web Presence Standing Committee conducted focus groups in 2025, complexities with the account setup and profile process prompted the team to coordinate with the Identity and Access Management group to review and recommend updates with these goals:

• Consistent user-friendly language
• Simplified user experience
• Functionality improvements

Those should launch in June, making the process of keeping ACCESS profiles up to date much clearer.

Fifteen Students Begin STEP Workshop

The ACCESS Student Training & Engagement Program (STEP-1) workshop kicked off on May 26 with 15 students coming together at Florida International University in Miami. For two weeks, they'll learn from skilled professionals about careers in cyberinfrastructure, including networking, cybersecurity and software engineering for high-performance computing systems.

Virtual Quarterly Meeting Now One Session

Based on feedback regarding potential topics for the upcoming June Virtual Quarterly Meeting, leadership has decided to focus on a single popular session, "What's Everyone Developing?". This will be a session lasting one to two hours, and you'll receive a meeting invitation as soon as the date and time are set.

What should AI tools do for scientists that current tools cannot?

To get at this, Ai2 is running a 15-minute survey for scientists and experts who support scientific work to understand where AI could be useful in real research work such as:

• reading papers
• analyzing data
• writing code
• using scientific software
• working with datasets
• planning experiments

or anything else that matters in your field.

They hope to hear from a broad and diverse range of research communities, from AI power users to novices. Take the survey here.

Countdown to PEARC26!

We're about nine weeks away from the annual Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference. Here are some steps you can take to prepare:

• Visit the ACCESS PEARC26 Wiki – Here you'll find everything you need in one place, including hotel information, for attending the conference.

• Share Your Presentation Info with Comms – The ACCESS Communications team wants to help promote your sessions. If you've had a paper, poster, BoF or other session accepted, please share the details.

• Order your ACCESS Merch – Help spread the word about ACCESS by wearing an ACCESS-branded item. If you're helping tend the booth, in particular, it'll be much appreciated.

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