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Issue 71 July 2009
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Trust Me, I’m A Computer
By Iain Coleman
Nostalgics will speak wistfully of the
days when people could go out for
the day without needing to lock their
doors. A cynic might respond that this
only worked when people didn’t have
anything worth stealing. They would
both have a point.
We only need security because
we don’t have trust. Why bother
with a door lock, if you know your
neighbours are honest? But even if
trust is absent, the level of security
we need depends on the risks. Why
get a lock that is more expensive
than anything behind the door?
So trust and security are two sides
of the same coin. Both are long
standing human and technical
problems, and both present new and
pressing problems for the digital age.
The e-Science Institute research
theme “Trust and Security in Virtual
Communities” aims to address
these problems, and is currently
hosting a visit by the distinguished
trust and security expert Prof Vijay
Varadharajan, Microsoft Chair
in Innovation in Computing at
Macquarie University.
As the scale and pervasiveness of
computing increases, so the trust
and security problems become more
complex and more pressing. As new
kinds of computing emerge, these
problems continue to multiply. Prof
Varadharajan’s Visitor Seminar, held
at eSI on 15 June, detailed the issues
that will be facing trust and security
researchers over the coming years,
and gave some pointers towards the
solutions they may use.
Every year brings cheaper embedded
computing, more pervasive
networking and greater mobility.
Computing is also expanding in
its geographical and social reach,
and the user base is becoming
more global and more diverse. So
more and more people are using
computing for more and more things,
with their financial, social and family
relationships increasingly mediated
through digital technology.
The future promises a continued
dramatic growth in computing power,
storage and bandwith. The era of
petabyte personal computing, though
distant, is approaching. When you
consider that everything you say from
the time you are born till the time you
die would fill less than one percent of
a petabyte, and that your entire life
experience can be captured in colour
with just a few petabytes, then the
question of who you trust with this
information, and how you safeguard
it, comes into sharp relief.
Large-scale computing brings
security challenges of its own. How
can we provide secure information
to billions of users? And how do we
counteract epidemic-style attacks,
from spam and phishing to worms
and denial of service?
Mobility introduces two new
problems. If you don’t know where
a program is coming from, it’s hard
to be sure what level of trust and
privileges to assign it. Programs are
also able to cross administrative
domains, which may have different
levels of trust.
Distributed computing also
complicates the security picture.
Systems have to be designed to deal
with dynamic changes in security
policies, and with self-organisation
and management in dynamic
networks where ad hoc entities form
and dissolve on short time scales.
Professor Vijay Varadharajan
Further, there is the question of
where the security services should be
placed in a distributed system. The
operating system? The middleware?
The hardware? The application? All
of the above?
These are hard questions, but
what makes them harder is the
fragmentation of the security world.
There are multiple security models,
on multiple platforms, from multiple
vendors. Policies proliferate, and
there are far too many different
security standards, many of them
incompatible with one another.
If security is becoming increasingly
complex, can a closer look at trust
help us to solve some of these
problems from a different direction?
Trust has been studied for many
decades, if not centuries, in different
disciplines, and is generally better
understood by philosophers,
sociologists and psychologists than
by technologists. It can be a slippery
notion. Trust depends on a context,
and is not necessarily transitive. Just
because I trust you and you trust her,
doesn’t mean that I trust her. Trust
can increase or decrease through
time.
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Trust me, I’m a computer
Continued
Generally speaking, trust takes a
long time to establish but can be lost
very quickly.
It is important to distinguish between
trust and trustworthiness. A secret
service employee may be trusted
with restricted information, but if
she illicitly sells it to a foreign power
she is not trustworthy. Misplaced
trust – when trust is greater
than trustworthiness – leads to
increased risk of harm. Misplaced
distrust – when trustworthiness is
greater than trust – leads to loss of
opportunities. The trick is to match
trust and trustworthiness as closely
as possible.
So how does this translate into
computing? Well, a trusted
computing platform has a trusted
component in the form of built-in
hardware, and it uses this to create
a foundation of trust for software
packages. Essentially, the trusted
platform vouches for the state of
the machine to a third party. For
instance, before sending out a movie
to your PC, Disney might check that
your PC has a particular application
that lets you view the movie without
being able to cut-and-paste or copy
it. Or, if you take a laptop to another
organisation, they might use the
trusted platform module to check the
state of your laptop before allowing it
to connect to their network.
Grid Computing
Now! annual report
But this is just the first step in
implementing trust in computing
systems. The ultimate aim is to
create a “trusted stack”, consisting
not only of trusted hardware, but
also of a trusted operating system,
middleware and applications – not to
mention trusted users.
Today’s security problems are
formidable, but tomorrow’s will be
tougher still. The more skill and
imagination we apply now, the
more likely it is that the distributed
computing systems of the future will
be built on secure foundations.
A webcast and slides from this event
can be downloaded from http://www.
nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/998/
The Grid Computing Now! knowledge
transfer network has released its
2009 annual report.
It can be downloaded here:
http://grid.globalwatchonline.
com/epicentric_portal/binary/com.
epicentric.contentmanagement.
servlet.ContentDeliveryServlet/GRID/
About%20Us/GCN!_Annual_Rep_
2009.pdf
NeSC-based students come out on top
Two undergraduates who have been working with the National e-Science Centre have won awards recently.
Andrei Lyashko, a graduate student from Minsk, Belarus, has been awarded the Microsoft Prize for the best
undergraduate honours project.
Andrei achieved a mark of 91% for his project on ‘Association Rules Applied to Microarray Results from a Cystic
Fibrosis Study’. The project involved data mining in the form of association rules and frequent patterns on scientific
data from a microarray study on Cystic Fibrosis by the Molecular Medicine Centre of the University of Edinburgh, with
the objective of identifying correlations between differentially expressed genes.
He will continue to work on the project at NeSC until the middle of August, under the supervision of Dr Jano van
Hemert, Dr Varrie Ogilvie and Rob Kitchen.
“I am hoping to finalise what I achieved in my project and release a stand-alone application for mass gene expression
analysis using the methodology I have developed,” he says.“I am very happy about the award, as I have put so much
work and effort into the project and it’s such a rewarding feeling when your work is recognised by others,” he says.
The second student, Carl Orebäck, was awarded both the Agilent Prize and the Class Medal for best performance in
the BEng Electronics and Computer Science degree
His project aimed to investigated the use of graphical user interface languages and their generators and use these
in conjunction with the Rapid Development Tool for Job Submission Portlets (Rapid), which is being developed at the
National e-Science Centre.
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Issue 71, July 2009
A SLiM chance for viruses
By Simon Hettrick, OMII-UK
Viruses have evolved a clever
way of reproducing. They hijack
the signalling pathways used to
instruct cells, and fool them into
producing copies of the virus. If we
could understand these signalling
pathways, we could develop
treatments for viruses and for the
many diseases that operate in a
similar way. This is a massive task
which, in the human body, requires
an understanding of the interactions
between about 20,000 proteins. A
team of biologists from the University
of Southampton have teamed up
with OMII-UK, the UK’s e-Research
software provider, to try to better
understand viruses using the latest
e-Research techniques.
a complex problem, which would
often require a single computer to
run for many days. By executing the
program on many computers at the
same time, the execution time can
be significantly decreased. Richard
could take advantage of a cluster
of computers within Southampton
University, or even the colossal
computing power provided by the
National Grid Service.
Richard Edwards is the head of
the Bioinformatics and Molecular
Evolution group at the University
of Southampton. He studies how
proteins interact, and is particularly
interested in short, linear motifs
– known as SLiMs.
“A protein can be thought of as a
sequence of amino acids, like beads
on a string” explains Richard “[SLiMs]
consist of about three-to-five specific
amino acids in the protein”.
SLiMs could be responsible for the
signalling pathways between many
proteins, because they control the
ways in which proteins interact. They
are potentially useful to viruses too.
SLiMs are small so it is relatively
easy for a virus to evolve a structure
that mimics them, and hijack the
signalling pathway controlled by the
SLiM. A variety of diseases occur
due to problems with signalling
pathways, which means that a better
understanding of SLiMs could be
vital to the development of new
treatments for ailments such as heart
disease.
Being one of a rare breed of
researchers who is adept in his
chosen field and in computer
science, Richard wrote SLiMFinder: a
program which investigates whether
the properties of a protein are caused
by SLiMs. Discovering SLiMs is
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SLiMFinder’s interface also needed
some work. The early version
required scientists to learn the correct
commands to run SLiMFinder. This
interface may be familiar to Unix
users (and anyone who used a PC
in the 70s or 80s), but it is something
that many scientists – in this pointand-click age – find difficult to use
“It’s one of those Catch-22 situations”
says Richard. “The kind of people
who are able to download and run
[the early version of SLiMFinder] are
the kind of people who are likely to
develop their own software”.
OMII-UK develops free and opensource software for e-Research, and
helps researchers benefit from the
technology. Helping researchers get
started with e-Research is the role
of Engage – a joint project between
OMII-UK and other partners in the
UK.
After meeting with Richard, Engage
began a collaboration during which
OMII-UK experts were commissioned
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to develop SLiMFinder into a more
user-friendly and powerful software
package.
Development focused on the creation
of a workflow for SLiMFinder, which
used OMII-UK’s very successful
Taverna software. This allows the
automation of repetitive tasks, such
as data collection from databases,
or data manipulation. ‘Data
management is a non-insignificant
part of the work’ explains Richard.
‘The time-saving potential is more
than [SLiMFinder] now runs in a day,
it also didn’t need someone to spend
a day setting everything up’. OMIIUK developers also developed one
of SLiMFinder’s sub-programs so
that it could execute on distributed
resources, such as the clusters at
the University of Southampton, which
significantly reduced execution time.
By developing SliMFinder into a
Taverna workflow, the software
was given a user-friendly interface.
Rather than having to learn and
type commands, scientists can
now use Taverna’s intuitive, pointand-click interface. This opens
up SLiMFinder to a much wider
audience. The use of Taverna also
allows scientists to share their
experiences and their work through
Taverna’s myExperiment website
– which was described by New
Scientist as MySpace for scientists.
Richard believes that this user
friendliness will lead to the real
benefit of the new SLiMFinder: any
biologists could use it, regardless
of their computing experience. This
superior ease of use, combined with
the faster execution times, has made
SLiMFinder into a tool that could be
of great interest throughout biological
sciences, as Richard explains: ‘It’s
made the difference between a tool
that people would think “that’d be
interesting, but I’m never going to
use it” and something that people
could try out to see if it’s interesting’.
For further information about this
article, please contact: Simon
Hettrick (tel. 023 8059 8871, email:
publicity@omii.ac.uk)
www.nesc.ac.uk
Issue 71, July 2009
The Art of Community Building
By Iain Coleman
E-Science may have originated in
the hard sciences, but it wasn’t long
before some enterprising scholars
in the arts and humanities saw the
potential to revolutionise their own
research practices with distributed
computing. A community of digital
pioneers grew up, crystallising
around the Arts and Humanities
Data Service (AHDS), finding new
ways of using e-Science techniques
in disciplines as diverse as history,
literature, and the performing arts.
But funding for AHDS came to
an end, and the digital arts and
humanities community might have
crumbled had it not managed to rally
around new forms of organisation.
One of these is arts-humanities.
net, a community web resource
developed by Torsten Reimer and
his colleagues at Kings College
London. It was designed as a living
site to support research activities and
virtual communities, encouraging
networking and promoting community
events.
And community is at the heart of the
project. Users build up the extensive
knowledge base of digital arts and
humanities projects, tagging their
information so that it can be browsed
by subject, method and output
type. The events calendar can also
be tagged, and users can discuss
arts and humanities events in the
hosted discussion forums and blogs.
The result is an extensive and rich
resource of information and social
connections, sustaining the digital
arts and humanities as a coherent
research community and giving
scholars new to e-Research a way
to learn about new methods and
possibilities.
For all the importance of user
contributions, the key to a thriving
and useful web resource is
enlightened editorial control. This
means it is not strictly a Web 2.0
project, even though it uses a lot
of Web 2.0 tools such as tagging,
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arts-humanities.net
aggregation and syndication. But it
does allow the kind of quality control
that is needed to keep the site usable
and reliable, whether that involves
ensuring that a project description
is complete and well-structured, or
performing some discreet pruning
of taxonomies that might otherwise
proliferate into ever-narrower subsub-classes.
The biggest task is not the editing,
or even the coding: it is encouraging
contributions and user activity.
Here, arts-humanities.net has been
remarkably successful in soliciting
a substantial amount of project
information, even if a little polite
pestering has sometimes been
required. The team are still working
on ways to increase activity, and this
centres on ensuring that academics
are able to gain credit for their
contributions. There has to be a clear
benefit to people who spend time
adding information to the knowledge
base or participating in discussions,
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and enhanced visibility of individual
members is a part of demonstrating
to the community when someone
adds value to the site. Ultimately, it
is the ratio of benefit to effort that
determines whether or not people will
contribute, and the challenge to the
arts-humanities.net team is to make
that ratio as high as possible.
Forced by circumstance, the digital
arts and humanities has found
itself taking a lead in establishing
a research community with its
base in the virtual world. It has
not been easy, and there are still
improvements to be made in the light
of experience, but the success of this
project may provide valuable lessons
for other research communities in the
digital age.
For more information, see http://www.
arts-humanities.net/
www.nesc.ac.uk
Issue 71, July 2009
OGF appointments for NGS staff
The NGS is pleased to announce that two members of staff have recently
been appointed to the OGF board.
Dr David Wallom, NGS technical director based at the University of Oxford,
has been appointed VP of e-Research taking over from Geoffrey Fox. David’s
responsibilities include co-ordinating and steering the interactions of the
research communities and their participation in OGF with the other functions,
including Enterprise and Standards.
David stated that “since there are also significant situations where we are not
seen as the natural place for these groups, they normally for example have a
conference of their own, then it is important that OGF ‘goes on the road’ as it
were”.
Jens Jensen, based at RAL, was appointed Area Director for security. Jens
explained that “this is an interesting challenge which I look forward to. For
one thing, there are numerous security related projects building things for the
NGS, and being able to chase them about using standards - or creating them
when they don’t exist - will be useful”.
RA training
The NGS will be running a training course for new RA operators at RAL on
the 21st of July. The short course (11am – 2pm) is designed for new RA
managers and operators. It gives comprehensive training on the procedures
and tasks that RAs will encounter. Items on the agenda include certificate
security, how to authenticate users requesting certificates, how to approve
and revoke certificates and operation of the RA web interface (https://
ca.grid-support.ac.uk).
If you would like to attend the course please register your interest by
emailing support@grid-support.ac.uk.
David Wallom, VP of e-Research
Upgrade to NGS
P-Grade portal to
make life easier for
you!
The NGS partner site, University
of Westminster, is releasing a new
workflow interoperability solution
available through the NGS P-GRADE
portal (http://ngs-portal.cpc.wmin.
ac.uk) to support NGS users to run
their applications.
The latest edition of the quarterly newsletter from the NGS is out now.
Featuring a host of articles on use cases, new technology and the grid
community the newsletter can be downloaded from the NGS website at www.
ngs.ac.uk/newsletter.
P-GRADE portal has been extended
with the capability of nesting
heterogeneous sub-workflows and
execute them on NGS resources.
The solution, that currently supports
the embedding of Taverna, Triana
and Kepler workflows in PGRADE
workflows, is based on the GEMLCA
Grid application repository and
submitter.
Particular highlights are a report on the Protein Molecule Simulation workshop
held at the NGS partner site, the University of Westminster as part of the
Engage project (www.engage.ac.uk); ongoing collaboration between NGS,
OMII-UK and the Australian DataMINX project; cloud computing and the
NGS; the HARC scheduler and much more.
Description of the workflow
interoperability solution, manual and
case study presenting this solution
can be found on the wiki page of the
NGS P-GRADE portal.
NGS newsletter
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Issue 71, July 2009
Oxford is the place to be this December...
Photo courtesy of Freefoto.com
Oxford’s the place to be this
December - Two exciting
conferences. One week. One
location.
Keep up with what’s happening in
e-Science – two key events in the
same week this December in Oxford.
The 2009 UK e-Science All Hands
Meeting takes place from Monday
7th - Wednesday 9th December,
followed by the 5th IEEE International
Conference on e-Science from
Wednesday 9th - Friday 11th
December.
Paper submissions are open now
for both conferences and we are
pleased to announce that the first
Tony Hey student essay prize will be
awarded at the All Hands Meeting.
Registration opens soon and we are
already accepting declarations of
interest from organisations interested
in having a display booth at one (or
both!) of the events so make sure to
keep the dates clear in your diary.
To find out more please visit the
conference websites at:
www.allhands.org.uk <http://www.
allhands.org.uk> &
www.escience2009.org <http://www.
escience2009.org>
Workshop Programme to Open the 5th
International Digital Curation Conference
The 5th International Digital Curation
Conference will open its doors on
Wednesday 2 December at the
Millennium Gloucester Hotel in
London with a day of workshops
covering different aspects of digital
curation that will vary in style
and content from discussion and
discourse through to tools and
training, followed by an evening
drinks reception at the Natural
History Museum in London.
The following four workshops have
been confirmed so far:
New Perspectives on Research
Data: How and why is digital
curation shaped by disciplinary
dimensions?
The SCARP Project case studies
have explored data curation practice
across a variety of clinical, life,
social, humanities, physical and
engineering research communities.
This workshop will look at selected
examples, considering the lifecycle
of different data assemblages, and
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the risks and benefits encountered
in curating them with the aim of
stimulating discussion on the
practical steps needed to manage
this lifecycle and to translate
approaches across communities.
Digital Curation 101 Lite
Research councils and funding
bodies are increasingly requiring
evidence of adequate and
appropriate provisions for data
management and curation in new
grant funding applications. This
one-day workshop is aimed at
researchers and those who support
researchers and want to learn more
about how to develop sound data
management and curation plans. The
workshop will provide an introduction
to digital curation, the range of
activities and roles that should be
considered when planning and
implementing new projects, and an
overview of tools that can assist with
curation activities.
Citability of Research Data
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Citable datasets are accessible
and can be integrated into existing
catalogues and infrastructures. A
citable datasets furthermore rewards
scientists for their extra-work in
storage and quality control of data
by granting scientific reputation
through cite-counts. The workshop
will examine the different methods for
the enabling of citable datasets and
discuss common best practices and
challenges for the future.This will be
a half-day workshop
Repository Preservation
Infrastructure (REPRISE)
The workshop will discuss digital
repositories and their specific
requirements for/as preservation
infrastructure, as well as their role
within a preservation environment.
Further details are available at http://
www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2009/
programme/
Booking for the workshops and
conference will open in July 2009.
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e-Science 2009 call for papers
Scientific research is increasingly
carried out by communities of
researchers that span disciplines,
laboratories, organizations, and
national boundaries.
The e-Science 2009 conference is
designed to bring together leading
international and interdisciplinary
research communities, developers,
and users of e-Science applications
and enabling 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.
The sixth IEEE e-Science conference
will be held in Oxford, UK from Dec
9-11. The meeting coincides with the
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting that
will be held from Dec 7-9th, 2009.
Building on the successes of
previous meetings, we would
like to develop some themes at
the conference. These include:
Arts and Humanities and e-Social
Science, Bioinformatics and Health,
Climate and Earth Sciences, Digital
Repositories and Data Management,
eScience Practice and Education,
Physical Sciences and Engineering
and Research Tools, Workflow and
Systems
There is also the opportunity to
submit a workshop programme that
is focussed on newer and less well
developed areas of research.
conforming to the above guidelines
can be submitted through the eScience 2009 paper submission
system (see URL below). It is
expected that the proceedings will
be published by the IEEE CS Press,
USA and will be made available
online through the IEEE Digital
Library.
All papers will be peer-reviewed.
Accepted papers from both the
main track and the workshops will
be published in pre-conference
proceedings published by IEEE.
Selected excellent work may be
eligible for additional post-conference
publication as extended papers in
selected journals, such as FGCS (
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/fgcs )
Papers Due: Friday 31st July, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: Tuesday
1st September, 2009 Camera Ready
Papers Due: Friday 18th September,
2009
Websites
http://www.escience-meeting.org/
eScience2006/instructions.html
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/
ESCIENCE2009/Default.aspx
DCC releases draft checklist
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is
delighted to announce the release for
public comment of its draft content
checklist for a data management
plan.
For more information on the DCC,
please see http://www.dcc.ac.uk.
In addition to our recent summary of
main UK research funders’ policies
and the support infrastructure they
provide (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
resource/curation-policies/indexnew), the checklist is intended to
act as an aide when producing
data management plans as part of
new research projects. Following
the public consultation, the content
checklist will be developed into an
interactive, web-based tool into
which researchers can insert their
own information and automatically
generate customised data
management plans. To view the draft
checklist, please see
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/templates/
DMP_checklist.pdf.
Comments and suggestions on
the draft checklist and/or desired
functionality for the online tool are
invited at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
feedback-dmp-checklist/.
The deadline for submitting feedback
is July 3rd 2009.
As well as the vibrant research
agenda the meeting will offer the
opportunity to meet socially with
colleagues in the some of the UK’s
most spectacular University venues.
Authors are invited to submit papers
with unpublished, original work of
not more than eight pages of double
column text using single spaced 10
point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages,
as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript
guidelines (see website list below).
Authors should submit a PDF or
PostScript (level 2) file that will print
on a PostScript printer. Papers
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A new issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A:
Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences is available online,
containing selected papers from the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008.
The Table of Contents is available online at: http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.
org/content/vol367/issue1897/?etoc
Print copies of the document are available at the special price of £47.50,
reduced from £58. To place an order at this price, please enter the code TA
1897 for vol. 1 or TA 1898 for vol. 2 at http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/
site/issues/computational_eScience.xhtml
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Issue 71, July 2009
e-Social Science at the University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is re-vitalising its e-social science research programme with the launch of the Manchester
eResearch Centre (MeRC) under the directorship of Professor Rob Procter. The Centre will pursue two related strands
of work. Its applications strand seeks to develop an enabling infrastructure (e-infrastructure) – comprising advanced
information and communication technologies – that will support social scientists in their pursuit of new solutions to their
substantive research problems. The social shaping strand adopts a social studies of science and technology approach to
understand how e-science, including e-social science, is being developed, how it is being used and what its implications
are for scientific practices and research outcomes.
MeRC builds on Manchester’s five years of highly successful operation as the coordinating Hub of the National Centre
for e-Social Science (NCeSS), responsible for the strategic management of the Centre’s seven research projects
(‘Nodes’) at universities across the UK. The Hub is widely recognised to have played the key part in establishing NCeSS
internationally as the world-leading centre of e-social science, and its success has influenced analogous developments
in other countries. From October 2009, the ESRC plans to use a different model for coordinating the final phase of
NCeSS and the key research work of the Hub will be carried forward by MeRC.
MeRC will enable Manchester to retain its major role in UK e-social science. It will continue to collaborate closely with
other researchers in e-social science across the UK and beyond. It will take forward several existing projects and it will
continue its impressive record of attracting funding (20 awards over the past five years) to extend both strands of its
work. For further information, contact Professor Rob Procter: rob.procter@manchester.ac.uk.
Forthcoming Events Timetable
July
13-16
StoMP2009: Noisy Bugs: Modelling and
Microbiology
eSI
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/962/
20-24
Emerging Modelling Methodologies in
Medicine and Biology
ICMS
http://www.icms.org.uk/workshops/
modellingmethodologies
22-23
Developers and Architects Meeting
for Arts and Humanities Research
Infrastructures
eSI
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1004/
22-24
ADMIRE Consortium Meeting #6
NeSC
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/982/
27-28
Developing Shared Resources for Digital
Research in the Arts and Humanities
eSI
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1002/
27-31
Kinetic and Mean-field models in the
Socio-Economic Sciences
ICMS
http://www.icms.org.uk/workshops/
kinetic
This is only a selection of events that are happening in the next few months. For the full listing go to the following
websites:
Events at the e-Science Institute: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/esi.html
External events: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/events/ww_events.html
If you would like to hold an e-Science event at the e-Science Institute, please contact:
Conference Administrator,
National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AA
Tel: 0131 650 9833 Fax: 0131 650 9819
Email: events@nesc.ac.uk
This NeSC Newsletter was edited by Gillian Law.
Email: glaw@nesc.ac.uk
The deadline for the August 2009 issue is July 17, 2009
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