Events

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The ninth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010) will be held at the City Hall, Cardiff, from 13-16 September 2010.

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The meeting provides a forum in which information on e-Science projects from all disciplines can be communicated and where the capabilities being developed within projects can be demonstrated.

The AHM 2010 will begin on Monday 13 September with a programme of mini-symposia. The main conference programme will begin on Tuesday 14 September and end on Thursday 16 September. The conference will feature presentations by groups from throughout the UK who are active in e-Science projects, as well as poster sessions, mini-workshop sessions, project demonstrations and birds-of-a-feather sessions. The schedule will also include a number of invited Keynote speakers involved in leading Grid and e-Science activities. We hope that this schedule of activities will provide a stimulating and engaging environment.

Information business growth and competitiveness in the Asia Pacific region

Overview

"We have created a dynamic datacentre, that we believe fundamentally enables new models of computing over
widely-spaced physical distances... within a private cloud." - Pat Gelsinger & Joe Tucci, EMC, 2010

Using new models of computing to create new business models that service new markets requires a broad understanding of factors that determine growth and competitiveness tied to detailed knowledge of local factors such as availability of investment capital, market demand characteristics and the potential for growth.

Local network infrastructures determine access to global networks, and hence access to on-demand High Performance/Cloud services. In turn, these display regional dependencies, most notably regional pricing models arising from the cost of data movements over large physical distances, leading to an industry structured around regional data centers that form important enablers and barriers to competition.

The NGS Innovation Forum '10 will be held at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on the 23rd - 24th November 2010. The two-day event will showcase the impact that the NGS has had on research in the UK, allow delegates to find out more about using the NGS in applied research, enable IT staff to find out how their institution can benefit from the NGS, and how you can contribute to and influence the future development of the NGS.

The DevCSI project is organising a FREE workshop aimed at developers, their managers and senior managers who are interested in a range of currently used, paper-based techniques.

Advantages of paper-based techniques include stakeholder familiarity, direct and indirect representation, suitability for teamwork, and the ability to exploit physicality, space and location. The day will include sessions on:

• The use of card-based techniques in agile development
• The use of (and co-development) of paper prototypes with users
• The ergonomics of doing design, e.g. if sitting, standing, using a table surface or a wall
• Development of sketching abilities, encompassing both paper and whiteboards

The e-Science Institute has issued a call for Mini Themes. These have a duration of up to six months (from January to July 2010). A theme is a connected programme of visitors, workshops and events, conceived and driven by a Theme Leader, focusing on a specific issue in e-Science that crosses boundaries and raises new research questions. Themes set out to identify the research issues, rally a community of researchers and map a path of future research that will make best progress towards new e-Science methods and capabilities.

If you use software in your research - or want to use it in the future - the Collaborations Workshop (CW11) is the perfect opportunity for you to meet people who you could work with.

The two-day workshop brings together researchers who use software, funders and software developers. Its goal is to provide attendees with everything needed to create successful collaborations. It’s the perfect forum for people to discuss their research and their project’s requirements, and then meet the people who can fulfil those requirements.

eScience Institute Mini-Theme on Provenance and Linked Open Data Workshop

30 March 10.00 – 17.30, 31 March 9.30 - 12.45

The e-Science Institute is pleased to announce a workshop titled 'Understanding Provenance and Linked Open Data' as part of the eSI mini-theme on provenance and linked open data. This workshop is intended for academics, researchers, PhD students, industry members, data archivists, libraries, museums, government agencies and other parties interested in provenance and linked open data.

Further information is available.

We invite you or a nominee to a meeting about developing an ontology for software description that is part of the JISC Digital Preservation Tools strand. The main goal of the meeting is to find out what people wish to record about software as part of the digital preservation process. At the end of the meeting we aim to have exemplars of software descriptions and the questions that people wish to ask of data curated with information about the software used in production, storage and analysis of data -- including the preservation process itself.

• Do you have large amounts of digital content to look after?
• How well do you know your digital content?
• Is your file what it says it is?
• Do your users do your QA for you?
• Intimidated by digital preservation tools?

These and many more questions will be explored and hopefully answered by the Automating Quality Assurance Project (AQuA) project events in April and June 2011. Are you a coder, technical expert, collection curator, digital preservation practitioner or a little of each? Then come along and partcipate in the AQuA events, to be held 11-13 April 2011 and 13-15 June 2011, where we will bring together digital preservation practitioners, collection curators and technical experts to automate quality assurance of our digital collections.