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Events within the University of Reading
Events outside the University of Reading
Events within the University of Reading
Seminar "How to join the environmental data revolution"
February 22, 2007
2:00-3:00, ESSC
Jon Blower, Technical Director, Reading e-Science Centre
slides Wiki site with presentation materials
In this talk, Jon will describe how technologies such as Google Earth, GeoRSS and web mapping can make the sharing and exploring of environmental data very much easier, allowing data from different sources to be "mashed up" to discover new information about the environment.
Seminar: New ways of exploring environmental data
March 9, 2006
2:00 - 3:00, ESSC and Access Grid (U of Reading virtual venue) (slides)
Jon Blower, Technical Director, Reading e-Science Centre
The subtitle of this talk is "Letting Google do the hard work". In this talk, Jon will discuss and demonstrate the use of new methods for exploring large environmental data sets such as satellite data and numerical model output. He will show how Google Maps and Google Earth can be used as tools for visualising scientific data sets and discuss how e-Science and Grid technology can help with the problem of working with very large data volumes.
Seminar: MATLAB for Distributed Computing in e-Science
November 24, 2005
10:30 - 16:00, University of Reading New Technology Institute (registration)
The MathWorks, in conjunction with The Reading e-Science Centre, will be holding a seminar on the use of MATLAB in the e-Science community. MATLAB is widely used in science, engineering and technical computing and as such there is considerable interest in using it within GRID/CampusGrid and Virtual Research environments.
The seminar will consider the general use of MATLAB in e-Science as well as the specific use of the MATLAB Distributed Computing Engine. It will also provide a forum for users of MATLAB within the UK e-Science community to meet and discuss projects.
For more details, please see the registration page.
Seminar: Deploying Legacy Applications on the Grid
July 19, 2005
12:00 - 1:00, ESSC (slides)
Tamas Kiss and Stephen Winter, University of Westminster
One of the biggest challenges when utilising a Grid infrastructure lies in porting existing applications onto the new platform without significant user effort or deep understanding of Grid computing principles. The research team of Centre for Parallel Computing at University of Westminster has recently released its GEMLCA (Grid Execution Management for Legacy Code Architecture) tool. GEMLCA facilitates deployment of any legacy application on the Grid with no significant user effort and without any modification in the original code. In this seminar talk the GEMLCA architecture will be outlined emphasising its potential applications in scientific and business settings. It will be explained how end-users can deploy their legacy programs as Grid services, and how they can create Grid workflows from these building blocks. A sample workflow application, analysing traffic density on a road network will be demonstrated on-line, using computational resources on different geographical locations.
Seminar: "The National Grid Service: Towards the UK's e-infrastructure"
April 22, 2005
2:00 - 3:00, ESSC (slides)
Neil Geddes, Director of the Grid Operations Support Centre (http://www.grid-support.ac.uk)
The UK's National Grid Service is a project to deploy and operate a grid infrastructure for computing and data access across the UK. This development will be a cornerstone of the development of the UK's "e-Infrastructure" over the coming decade. The goals, current status and plans for the National Grid Service and the Operations Support Centre will be described.
Seminar: 'Experiences of establishing a Campus Grid at Bristol'
July 15, 2004
2:00 - 3:00, ESSC (slides)
David Wallom, Operations Director, Centre for e-Research, Bristol
David will share his experiences with constructing Bristol's campus-wide Grid facilities
Seminar: 'Extending a relational database - Intelligent storage of geospatial data'
May 10, 2004
2:00 - 3:00, ESSC (slides)
John Pickford, IBM
A current topic of debate is the potential of relational databases to be a powerful means of managing large stores of environmental data. John will give an introduction to IBM's latest solutions, which should be relevant to anyone with large data needs.
Seminar: 'Grid computing with the Inferno distributed operating system'
March 25, 2004
2:00-3:00, ESSC (slides)
Michael Jeffrey, CEO, Vita Nuova
Inferno is a system which can be used to build Grids across a variety of different machines (Windows, Linux, Solaris, MacOS and more). It is being used very successfully in commercial and academic environments alike and can provide very high-throughput computing (cf. Condor).
This talk will be highly relevant to anyone with an interest in distributed/Grid computing, and Michael will pitch the talk at a level which will be appropriate to both technical and non-technical people
Seminar: 'Operational Metocean Web-based Data Delivery and its Applications'
February 25, 2004
This seminar will promote a new and exciting method of environmental data delivery through the internet. It will be held at Reading University on 25th February 2004, starting at 10:30am and finishing with lunch and a general discussion. In particular the seminar will focus on a demonstrator showing how meteorological and oceanographic data generated by the UK Met Office can be seamlessly cut and delivered via the internet to end user applications. The seminar is free, but please register beforehand by contacting Dr Jerry Stanley on jstanley@bmtmail.com or by using the web site www.envdatacluster.net. This seminar is being organised by the SEEDA cluster "Flexible On-line Environmental Data Systems (EDAS)".
Seminar: 'The Reading e-Science Centre'
February 11, 2004
Jon Blower will be giving a talk introducing the Reading e-Science Centre at 2:00 on Wednesday 11th February at ESSC. All welcome!
Events outside the University of Reading (selected)
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2011
September 26, 2011 to September 29, 2011
The tenth e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM) will be held from 26th-29th September 2011, in the historic city of York, United Kingdom. The main themes will be shared infrastructures, using the cloud in research, end-user engagement, applications (e-science, e-social science, research in the arts and humanities). The conference will feature keynote presentations, workshop sessions, poster presentations and demonstrations. A series of tutorials for delegates will be held on Monday 26th September 2011, the first day of the conference. Papers will be peer reviewed and published in a special issue journal (to be confirmed). There will be a small exhibition area and opportunities for networking. The conference is expected to attract over 200 international delegates from industry and the academic community.
Conference website
Call for Abstracts
IEEE e-Science conference 2010
December 7, 2010 to December 10, 2010
The sixth IEEE e–Science conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society´s Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), will be held in Brisbane, Australia from 7th – 10th December 2010.
Scientific research is increasingly carried out by communities of researchers that span disciplines, laboratories, organizations, and national boundaries. The e–Science 2010 conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of e–Science applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest research and product/tool developments and to highlight related activities from around the world.
Website
Call for papers UPDATED: Abstracts due: 19th July 2010; Full papers due: 30th July 2010, Notification of acceptance: 20th September 2010
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting
September 13, 2010 to September 16, 2010
The ninth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010) will be held at the City Hall, Cardiff, from 13-16 September 2010.
Abstract deadline extended to 7 June 2010
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.
AHM 2010 will begin on Monday 13th September with a programme of mini-symposia. The main conference programme will begin on Tuesday 14th September and end on Thursday 16th 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.
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting
December 7, 2009 to December 9, 2009
The All-Hands Meeting has become the annual event where computational scientists and technologists can come together to share, discuss and advance the exciting research that has grown out of the e-Science Programme. This year’s meeting sees several changes – in particular the date. Traditionally a September event, we have moved the AHM to December (Monday 7th – Wednesday 9th 2009) to coexist with the IEEE e-Science meeting, giving us the opportunity to bring the UK community together with the international leaders in e-Science.
This year there are several Themes. Theme 4 is "Environmental and Earth Sciences":
The use of novel information technology in the environmental and earth sciences is growing rapidly. We invite submissions from practitioners in all areas bridging environmental science and IT, including, but not limited to:
- Scientific research that has been enabled by novel IT.
- Industrial and operational applications using novel IT, including environmental monitoring and forecasting.
- Environmental informatics, including new developments in data grids, data exchange, data curation, semantics and metadata.
- Visualization of environmental data.
- Environmental applications of high-performance, high-throughput, Grid and cloud computing.
Authors are asked to note that the All Hands Meeting is strongly interdisciplinary and submissions must be aimed at a broad audience.
NEW: Abstract deadline extended to 10th July
Call for papers: http://www.allhands.org.uk/papers
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008
September 8, 2008 to September 11, 2008
The UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM) provides a forum for discussion and demonstration of a broad range of e-Science projects from all disciplines.
The conference features many excellent opportunities for networking through presentations by researchers who are active in e-Science projects, poster sessions, workshops and demonstrations. The schedule also includes a number of invited Keynote speakers involved in leading Grid and e-Science activities worldwide.
This popular and well established conference is now in its sixth year and attracts delegates from many disciplines and organisations, including senior decision makers working in research and IT using advanced computing techniques and technologies. It also attracts distinguished members of the UK academic community and all eight UK Research Councils exhibit at the event. As a sponsor you can reach UK and International researchers to form collaborations and have early access to new ideas.
We expect around 650 delegates to attend this year’s unique AHM event from both the UK and abroad.
Call for papers Deadline 1st May 2008
Royal Society Meeting: The Environmental eScience Revolution
April 7, 2008 to April 8, 2008
The environmental sciences are being revolutionised by a new way of working facilitated by advances in the computer and information sciences: "eScience".
The aims of the meeting are to:
- Highlight how the computing and information science revolution of recent years is changing the way that environmental research is undertaken
- Bring together scientists and their user communities do demonstrate how eScience can facilitate truly interdisciplinary and translational research
- Summarise the achievements of the first generation of environmental eScience projects funded by the NERC eScience programme
Registration and further details
e-Science 2007, Bangalore, India
December 10, 2007 to December 13, 2007
The e-Science 2007 conference is designed to bring together developers and users of e-Science applications and enabling IT technologies from leading international and interdisciplinary research communities. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest research and product/tool developments, and highlight related activities from around the world.
Website: http://www.escience2007.org/
Grid Computing and the National Grid Service (NGS) Induction
July 26, 2007 to July 27, 2007
e-Science Institute, Edinburgh
Grid computing empowers collaborations across different institutions by enabling them to share resources of data and computation. The National Grid Service (NGS) is the core UK grid service and it is intended for the production use of computational and data grid resources for scientific and academic research purposes. Use of the NGS is available free of charge to members of the UK academic and scientific communities. Projects involving large data volumes, high computation requirements or geographically widespread collaborators may benefit from using the NGS.
Full details and registration are available at - http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/810/
International Summer School on Grid Computing 2007
July 8, 2007 to July 20, 2007
The fifth in the highly successful series of International Summer Schools in Grid Computing will be held at Gripsholmsviken Hotell & Konferens of Mariefred , Sweden, near Stockholm, from 8th to 20th July 2007.
The school builds on the integrated curriculum developed over the last few years which brings together the leading grid technologies from around the world, presented by leading figures, and gives students a unique opportunity to study these technologies in depth side by side. To find further details and to register for the school visit the web site at: http://www.iceage-eu.org/issgc07/index.cfm.
NGS User Forum
June 19, 2007 to June 20, 2007
The third National Grid Service user forum is meeting to bring together existing and potential NGS users and providers, to share experiences, understand future plans and provide an opportunity to influence the development of the NGS provision through the next few years. With users from a diverse range of academic disciplines and a growing number of resource providers, the NGS is constantly looking towards the future to better understand the service requirements of users and the applications required.
The event to be held in Oxford will also mark the official launch of the new NGS-2 Compute and Storage Clusters. An open drop-in session on the afternoon of the 19th June will enable users to informally speak to technical representatives from the NGS.
Collocated with this user forum will be a NGS training day on the 20th June. This training day gives a practically-oriented introduction to the services that have recently been deployed by the NGS.
If you are interested in attending either of these events, please register at http://www.ngs.ac.uk/event.html where a full agenda for both days is also available. Please note that registration closes on the 13th of June.
Workshop: "Google Earth and other geobrowsing tools in the environmental sciences"
April 2, 2007 to April 3, 2007
Event webpage. Registration will open in late January.
Workshop on Lightweight Grid Computing 2006
May 2, 2006 to May 3, 2006
Peak District National Park Centre for Environmental Learning
Organizers: John Kewley, Rob Allan and Peter Coveney
Purposes of the workshop:
- Share ideas on the middleware needed to provide users with lightweight access to Grid Resources
- Look at ways to pool resources for future collaboration
NERC annual eScience meeting
April 26, 2006 to April 27, 2006
http://www.niees.ac.uk/events/nerc06/
The first NERC Annual eScience meeting will be at Cosener's house, Abingdon. This is an opportunity for both projects and studentships to showcase what they have done, discuss the the issues they have faced, and hopefully learn from each other's experiences.
The meeting is being co-organised by the NIEeS and Ned Garnett, the NERC eScience Co-ordinator.
The aims of the meeting are to bring the community together to share experiences, to get updates on what is happening within the NERC eScience programme, and to think about ways forward.
Introduction to e-Infrastructure: Enabling the Research of the Future
February 22, 2006
University College London more details
This is a free event that will offer on overview of e-Science/Grid initiatives and infrastructure at the Campus, National and International level, and is targeted at researchers, IT systems managers and other decision makers.
Designing for Usability in e-Science
January 26, 2006 to January 27, 2006
National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh (website)
The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for presentation of new ideas and development of a community interested in the above questions. The workshop will have two main parts: the presentation of new findings in usability design for escience, from approaches in design to evaluations of techniques, and working group sessions to evolve and support a network of interdisciplinary scholarship interested in sharing findings, debating practice and collaborating on establishing an understanding of the practice and production of science in the 21st century, within and beyond its embodiment in the "smart" laboratory of the publication@source paradigm.
The outcomes from the workshop will form the basis of a special issue in the International Journal of Human Computer Studies on EScience Applications and Usability Design.
Campus Grid meeting
June 16, 2005 to June 17, 2005
National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh. Registration
Meeting to explore the use of CampusGrids and to inform sites how to set up such CampusGrids for the first time. The aims of the meeting are: to find out which centres are working in this area, the technologies that are being used, what might be done to share best practice, to look for commonality where appropriate, to help new sites create their own Campusgrids, and to consider how the centres may be interconnected to each other and to the UK National Grid Service.
POL e-Science Awareness Workshop
May 6, 2005
Liverpool University. Registration
The NIEeS and the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory are co-organising an e-Science/Grid awareness day at the Foresight Centre in Liverpool University. The aim of this one-day workshop is to provide an update on the broad range of eScience activities within the UK. We plan a mix of background/information talks and presentations of case studies, some with live demonstrations. This awareness day covers a wide range of topics and will be of interest both to those just starting their eScience journey and those with more experience.
UK Globus Week
April 4, 2005 to April 8, 2005
NeSC, Edinburgh registration and information
Introduction to Grid Computing and the National Grid
March 29, 2005 to March 30, 2005
NeSC, Edinburgh
The National Grid Service is is the core UK grid, intended for the production use of computational and data grid resources. NGS is the core service resulting from the UK's e-Science programme (http://www.ngs.ac.uk/).
The goals of this course are to give participants:
- an understanding of the concepts of Grid Computing and e-Research.
- an orientation to the NGS and the Grid Operations Support Centre (http://www.grid-support.ac.uk/).
- sufficient practical experience to allow initial use of the National Grid Service in future.
Please see http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/561 for registration information.
Developing applications for real-time environmental data
February 22, 2005 to February 23, 2005
NIEeS, Cambridge. registration and information
The value of real-time environmental data produced by the Met Office, the Environment Agency and similar bodies, would be greatly enhanced if they could be accessed through secure Web and Grid Services. This would enable the development of models and user service tools, which could immediately provide downstream predictions for a whole range of purposes, for research, for regulatory bodies and government departments and potentially for commercial exploitation.
This workshop will explore the interest from the Research community in building eScience demonstrators using Met Office and Environmental Agency data sets. Representatives from both agencies will be present and the aim will be to identify a number of potential projects to go forward to produce suitable demonstrators in the near term. The workshop will therefore try both to identify projects to take forward and also to discuss a longer-term vision of how the environmental research community can interact more with agencies to their mutual benefit.
Web services for environmental applications
January 25, 2005 to January 26, 2005
NIEeS, Cambridge. registration and information
Web services have played a significant role in the UK escience programme for many different applications. One exemplar in the use of web services in environmental escience is the GODIVA project. In this case there has been a lot of work to couple access to data, data assimilation and visualisation via a web services interface to the user.
The idea of this workshop is to showcase some of the various applications of web services, to show how web services applications can be developed, and to have a hands-on practical session to enable participants to build some web services applications from simple building blocks.
First International Workshop on Grid Computing and Its Application to Data Analysis
October 25, 2004 to October 29, 2004
See the website for more details:
http://laurel.datsi.fi.upm.es/GADA04
Larnaca, Cyprus, 25 Oct - 29 Oct 2004
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag
Deadline for paper submission: July 4th, 2004
UK Condor Week
October 11, 2004 to October 15, 2004
Please see the website for more details.
This is the inaugural UK Condor Week, to be held at the National e-Science Centre (NeSC). It is supported by Professor Miron Livny and the Condor Team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The meeting will bring together people from the UK, Europe and globally with a significant interest in the Grid, Condor and stable, cost-effective High Throughput Computing. There will be a programme of tutorials, workshops, Q & A and demonstrations from members of The Condor Team, tailored to the needs of the UK Condor community.
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting
September 1, 2004 to September 3, 2004
This will be held at Nottingham University. See the website for more details. Note: the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to April 8th 2004. Please see the submissions page, the call for abstracts and the abstract submission notes.
EOGEO 2004, UCL
June 23, 2004 to June 25, 2004
EOGEO is a workshop for developers of Geospatial data services over the Web. It covers a wide field of applications from Earth Observation to local GIS systems. The common themes are Web based solutions to resource discovery, interoperable data access, distributed data services and data fusion.
More information at http://eogeo.net. Abstracts due by 26 April 2004 by email to: clive.best@jrc.it.
EOGEO is an international event started by the Committee for Earth Observation Satellites - CEOS in 1995. It has run annually since then, attracting key developers from around the world. This year EOGEO is to be held in London at the University College London. There will be a small registration fee. Hotel accomodation can be organised by the hosts following a registration process. The workshop will cover latest developments and techniques applied to Geospatial systems. Themes of particular interest include OGC Services; Web Services; Catalogs, Directories & Metadata; new developments; successes, failures, trends; Grid Computing (Grid/EO, Grid/GIS, Convergence of Grid and Web services); Outreach/Community building
Open Middleware for Environmental e-Science
May 20, 2004
NIEeS, Cambridge
There is a rightful consideration within the UK escience programme with regard to the long-term maintenance and development of grid middleware products developed by the programme. This has led to the establishment of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII) in Southampton. The OMII will be looking for key middleware products to take on for further development and long-term support. This meeting is called with the primary purpose of discussing whether there are important middleware tools for the environmental escience programme which should be candidates for the OMII.
For more information, and to register for this event, go to the NIEeS website.
Grid Middleware and Web Services Town meeting
April 23, 2004
The UK e-Science Core Programme announces there will be a Town Meeting to bring together the UK e-Science Community to discuss issues around the announcement of "Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF)", and its potential impact on the UK e-Science projects. For details, including an agenda and list of speakers, please see http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/escience/events.shtml. Numbers of limited so to register for this event, please contact Carol Becker (carol.becker@epsrc.ac.uk).
Globus 2 / Level 2 Grid training course
April 1, 2004 to April 2, 2004
There is a Globus 2/Level 2 Grid connection training course to be held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh on April 1st and 2nd 2004, organised by Dr Mark McKeown. Currently, there are plenty of spare places. For a brief description of the course, the agenda and how to book, see http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/395/.
The deadline for online registration is March 25th.
Environmental e-Science Business Briefing
February 12, 2004
The purpose of this one-day event is to report on recent activities in the area of environmental esciences to an industrially-focused audience, and to report on funding schemes for collaborative industry/university environmental escience projects. See the NIEeS website for more details.
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