NEWSLETTER
Issue 3
January, 2003
IBM comes to NeSC
On January 22nd, Dr Carol Kovac, General Manager of IBM Life
Sciences, will be visiting NeSC for a series of presentations on
Bioinformatics, the work that has been done in this field at
Edinburgh and plans for a Bioinformatics Centre.
Dr Kovac's organisation brings together IBM strengths in such
areas as e-business, supercomputing, data and storage
management, data mining and knowledge management, as well
as IBM's world-renowned research expertise in computational
biology and parallel computing to deliver leading edge solutions
for life sciences.
Forthcoming
events, start 2003
JAVA Success
We are pleased to announce the
arrival of Gill Maddy, our new
Conferences Manager. We wish
Gill the best of luck as the new
conference season gets going.
January 2003
Thu 23 Jan - Fri 24 Jan
Visualisation for e-Science
Thu 30 Jan - Fri 31 Jan
2nd Meeting of the EPSRC
Pilot Projects
February 2003
Mon 3 Feb - Thu 6 Feb
Advanced Java for Web
Services
Mon 3 Feb - Mon 3 Feb
Registration Authority
Training Course
Tue 11 Feb - Wed 12 Feb
OGSAI-DAI Training Course
Thu 13 Feb - Thu 13 Feb
Resource Management and
Scheduling for the Grid
Staff & Other
News
The courses “Introduction to
Java” and “Advanced Java”
have proved to be extremely
popular at NeSC, with the
advanced course, due to take
place on 3-6th February, being
extremely overbooked.
It is anticipated that the course
will be repeated in March to
allow all those who are
interested to take part.
NeSC opens up
NeSC will be holding its first
Open Day for all interested
people from the university and
th
associated institutions, on 17
January. The event will begin
at 2pm in the Newhaven
Lecture Theatre.
The eDIKT team will shortly be
moving into newly-refurbished
offices
in
Old
College.
Redecoration is in its final
phases, with furniture and new
phones yet to be installed.
Contact Details
If you would like to hold an event
that relates to e-Science at the
national e-Science Centre, please
contact:
Conference Manager,
National e-Science Centre
15 South College Street
Edinburgh EH8 9AA
United Kingdom
Tel: 0131 650 9833
Fax: 0131 650 9819
Email:events@nesc.ac.uk