NEWSLETTER
Issue 7, May 2003
Back issues available on website:
www.nesc.ac.uk
All Hands Meeting 2: Call for Papers
The second All Hands Meeting is being held at the East Midlands
Conference Centre, Nottingham from 2nd - 4th September. The theme of
this year’s meeting is Delivering e-Science – currently many projects have
deliverables and results to share with the community, and there is a clear
understanding of the effort required to deliver the e-Science vision. There
are several options for participation, including Parallel sessions, Poster
Presentations, Mini Workshops and Birds of a Feather meetings. Each of
these require an abstract to be submitted for consideration by the
Programme Committee and should be no more than one page of plain
text. As the number of each type of presentation is constrained, there will
be a selection process. Abstract submissions can be submitted any time
from 7 April to 1 June. NeSC’s involvement at this stage is in hosting
cyberchair, to which abstracts should be submitted:
http://cyberchair.nesc.ac.uk/AHM2003/
Forthcoming Events Microsoft .NET training
Fri 2 May
2nd International Lattice Data
Grid Workshop
Wed 7 May
CSC (Finnish IT centre for
Science) visit to Edinburgh
Tue 13 May - Thu 15 May
Essential .NET: building
applications & components with
C#
Wed 14 May
Jullia Goodfellow Visit
Fri 16 May
Schemas and Ontologies:
Building a Semantic
Infrastructure for the GRID and
Digital Libraries
Tue 27 May
Inter-research group symposium
on particle physics
Wed 28 May - Thu 29 May
DAIS Specification Meeting
More information available at:
http://umbriel.dcs.gla.ac.uk/
NeSC/general/events/
Holiday Reminder
NeSC will be closed during the
University of Edinburgh holidays
on 19th and 20th May.
Organised by Fabien Petitcolas of
Microsoft,
the
Essential
.NET
presents requirements to build
applications for Microsoft's .NET
platform and the Common Language
Runtime (CLR) using the C#
programming language. The course
has been designed for those with
experience in languages such as C++
or Java. The course is open to all in
the e-Science Community.
Julia Goodfellow visit
Professor Julia Goodfellow, Chief
Executive of the Biotechnology &
Biological Sciences Research Council
(BBSRC), will be visiting NeSC for
presentations and discussion of eScience, Bioinformatics and related
work at Edinburgh.
GGF8 & HPDC-12
GGF8: “Building Grids - Obstacles &
Opportunities” and HPDC-12 advance
registration discounts are available register now and save at least $100.
Topics for Tutorials have also been
confirmed; register now and you can
save around 50%. Be advised that
tutorial registration might not be
available on-site.
Limited special
hotel rates are still available at the
Sheraton Seattle (the meeting
location for HPDC-12 and GGF8).
http://www.gridforum.org/meetings/
ggf8/default.htm
Staff & Other News
We are pleased to announce the
arrival of visitor Professor Richard
Thomas from the Department of
Computer Science and Software
Engineering at the University of
Western Australia.
We hope he
enjoys his stay in Edinburgh.
Glasgow Access Grid
If you would like to book time on the
AG, please contact Susan Andrews
on 0141 3398855x 0989
andrewsm@dcs.gla.ac.uk
NeSC Contact Details
If you would like to hold an event that
relates to e-Science at the National eScience 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