Agenda
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2008
8:00AM–9:00AM
Continental Breakfast..................................................................................................... IUPUI Conference Center Hallways
9:00AM–10:30AM
Welcome and Logistics: Kristin Tolle ...................................................................... Auditorium, IUPUI Conference Center
Opening Remarks: Daron Green
Opening Keynote: The CARMEN Science Cloud – Paul Watson
10:30AM–10:45AM
Break ........................................................................................................................................ IUPUI Conference Center Hallways
10:45AM–12:45PM
Research Presentations:
I. Large Scale Data Analysis .............................................................................. IUPUI Auditorium
Chair: Harold Javid
GrayWulf: Petascale Data-Intensive Computing for eScience
Alexander Szalay, Gordon Bell, Jan Vandenberg, et al.
Presenter: Alexander Szalay
Pan-STARRS: Learning to Ride the Data Tsunami
Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban, Yogesh Simmhan, Roger Barga, et, al.
Presenter: Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban
GPU-Based Interactive Visualization of Billion Point
Cosmological Simulations
Tamas Szalay, Volker Springel and Gerard Lemson
Presenter: Tamas Szalay
HPC-GPU: Large-Scale GPU Accelerated Windows HPC Clusters and
its Application to Advanced Bioinformatics and Structural Proteomics
Satoshi Matsuoka and Akira Nukada
Presenter: Satoshi Matsuoka
II. Data Modeling and Preservation .............................................................. Ballroom I
Chair: Lee Dirks
A Web-Based Resource Model for eScience:
Object Reuse & Exchange
Carl Lagoze, Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael Nelson, et al.
Presenter: Carl Lagoze
A Data Model for Environmental Observations
David Valentine, Bora Beran and Oleg Kapeljushnik
Presenter: Oleg Kapeljushnik
Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration for Distributed Digital Preservation
Chris Jordan, Robert H. McDonald, David Minor, et al.
Presenter: Chris Jordan
Knowledge Discovery Using Data Mined from Nuclear
Magnetic Resonance Spectral Images
William Brouwer
Presenter: William Brouwer
III. Genomics ............................................................................................................ Ballroom II
Chair: Simon Mercer
Prediction of RNA Secondary and Tertiary Structure while
Determining Fundamental Principles of RNA Structure
Robin Gutell, David Gardner and Stuart Ozer
Presenters: David Gardner and Robin Gutell
Harnessing the World’s Computers to Hunt for Disease-Provoking Genes
Mark Silberstein, Assaf Schuster and Dan Geiger
Presenter: Assaf Schuster
Shared Genomics: Engaging Clinical Scientists with eScience
Infrastructure
David Hoyle, Iain Buchan and Mark Delderfield
Presenter: David Hoyle
Making Sense of Sequences: Comparative Genomics and the New GIS
Peter Ansell, Chris Bowles, Lawrence Buckingham, et al.
Presenter: Xin-Yi Chua
12:45PM–2:00PM | 12:45–14:00 Lunch and Poster Session.................................................................................... IUPUI Innovation Center
2:00PM–3:15PM | 14:00–15:15
Panel: What Do Scientists Really Need to Facilitate
Time to Discovery?. ................................................................................................ IUPUI Auditorium
Moderator: David Heckerman
Panelists: Jeff Dozier, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bryan Traynor, Research Fellow, National Institute of Aging, NIH
Jeremy Frey, Professor, University of South Hampton
George Djorgovski, Professor, CalTech
3:15PM–3:30PM | 15:15–15:30
Break. ............................................................................................................................ IUPUI Conference Center Hallways
3:30PM–5:30PM | 15:30–17:30
Birds of a Feather Sessions:
• Semantics for eScience. ..................................................................................... Ballroom I
Chairs: Evelyne Viegas and Eric Neumann
Speakers:
- Susie Stephens (Keynote)
- Kristin Tolle
- Mark Wilkinson
- Chaitali Gupta
- Yong Liu
- Mohammed Hassan Haji
- Michael Towsey
- Deborah McGuinness
- James Brenton
- Robert McGrath
- Fatma Y. Eldresi
• eScience Inspired Education........................................................................... Ballroom II
Chairs: Yan Xu and Eric Jul
Speakers:
- Rosalind Reid
- Majid Sarrafzadeh
- Charlie Whittaker
Research Presentations:
IV. Data Visualization .................................................................................... IUPUI Auditorium
Chair: Tom McMail
Simplifying the Design of Workflows for Large-Scale Data
Exploration and Visualization
Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva
Presenter: Juliana Freire
Transparent Data Cube for Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
and Visualization
Mikhail Zhizhin, Dmitry Medvedev, Vassily Lyutsarev,
Sergei Berezin, et al.
Presenter: Mikhail Zhizhin
Querying and Visualizing Data Cube in Mathematica for
Environmental Science Applications
Yongluan Zhou, Anshul Jain, Karl Aberer and Sebastian Michel
Presenter: Sebastian Michel
On-the-fly Visualization of Scientific Geospatial Data
Using Wavelets
Cyrus Shahabi, Kai Song and Farnoush Banaei-Kashani
Presenter: Farnoush Banaei-Kashani
6:30 PM–9:00 PM | 18:30–21:00 Cocktail Social Hour and Dinner ...................................................................... Indiana Historical Society
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2008
8:00AM–9:00AM
Continental Breakfast............................................................................................ IUPUI Conference Center Hallways
9:00AM–10:00AM
Plenary Keynote: Digital Repositories, Archives and ………… ............ Auditorium, IUPUI Conference Center
Infrastructures - Peter Wittenburg
10:00AM–10:15AM
Break ............................................................................................................................. IUPUI Conference Center Hallways
10:15AM–12:15PM
Research Presentations:
V. Bio Tools....................................................................................................... IUPUI Auditorium
Chair: Dean Guo
Publication and Consumption of caBIG Data Services
Using .NET
Marty Humphrey, Norm Beekwilder and Jie Li
Presenter: Marty Humphrey
Supporting Life Scientists via End User Programming
Luke Church, Jasmin Fisher and Katinka Apagyi
Presenter: Luke Church
Microsoft Computational Finance Server as a Platform for
Computational Biology – A Pilot Application
Robert Bukowski and Jarek Pillardy
Presenter: Robert Bukowski
BioMashups: The New World of Exploratory Bioinformatics?
James Hogan, Jiro Sumitomo, Paul Roe and Felicity Newell
Presenter: James Hogan
VI. Scientific Frameworks ........................................................................... Ballroom I
Chair: Tom Healy
Software + Services for Engineers
Steven Johnston, Simon Cox, Kenji Takeda and Phillip Marsh
Presenter: Steven Johnson
Beyond Genes, Proteins and Abstracts: A Framework to
Capture Scientific Claims
Catherine Blake
Presenter: Catherine Blake
Cloud Computing Framework Design for Cancer
Imaging Research
Maria Susana Avila Garcia, Anne E. Trefethen, et al.
Presenter: Daniel Goodman
Evolving Health Informatics Semantic Frameworks and
Metadata-Driven Architectures
Jim Davies, Jeremy Gibbons, Steve Harris and Denise Warzel
Presenters: Jim Davies, Jeremy Gibbons and Steve Harris
VII.
Sensor Data ............................................................................................ Ballroom II
Chair: Stewart Tansley
A Data Centered Collaboration Portal to Support Global
Carbon-Flux Analysis
Deb Agarwal and Marty Humphrey
Presenter: Deb Agarwal
Deploying Advanced Wireless Sensor Networks for
Ecological Monitoring
Jayant Gupchup, Alex Szalay, Andreas Terzis, et al.
Presenter: Jayant Gupchup
Smart Shoe for Balance, Fall Risk Assessment and Applications
in Wireless Health
Hyduke Noshadi, Shaun Ahmadian, Foad Dabiri, et al.
Presenter: Hyduke Noshadi
SenseWeb: Sharing and Browsing Environmental Changes
in Real-time
Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, et al.
Presenter: Stewart Tansley
12:15PM–1:30PM | 12:15–13:30 Lunch and Poster Session.................................................................................... IUPUI Innovation Center
1:30PM–3:00PM | 13:30–15:00
Research Presentations:
VIII. Data Interoperability ........................................................................ IUPUI Auditorium
Chair: Roger Barga
Dynamic Generation of Interactive Ecosystem Report
Cards Using Silverlight and Virtual Earth
Jane Hunter, Abdulmonem Alabri, Andrew Newman, et al.
Presenter: Jane Hunter
The eScience Appliance: Provisioning an Inexpensive
Bottom-Up Cyberinfrastructure
Bill Howe and Roger Barga
Presenter: Bill Howe
SciScope: A Data Discovery and Retrieval Tool for
Environmental Science
Bora Beran and Catharine van Ingen
Presenter: Bora Beran
IX.
Web Services for eScience .............................................................. Ballroom I
Chair: Alex Wade
Accelerating Time to Experiment – The myExperiment
Approach to Open Science
David De Roure, Carole Goble and Jiten Bhagat
Presenter: David De Roure
Biocatalogue: A Curated Web Service Registry for the
Life Science Community
Khalid Belhajjame, Carole Goble, Franck Tanoh, et al.
Presenter: Carole Goble
Real-time and Retrospective Analysis of Video Streams
and Still Image Collections Using MPEG-7
Ganesh Gopalan
Presenter: Ganesh Gopalan
X.
Simulation and Modeling ............................................................... Ballroom II
Chair: Yan Xu
Processes and Constraints in Scientific Model Construction
Will Bridewell and Pat Langley
Presenter: Will Bridewell
Mitigating the Energy Crisis Using Simulation for Enhanced
Oil Recovery: Analyzing Oil Fields Grain by Grain
David Holmes, John Williams and Peter Tilke
Presenter: David Holmes
Development of a 3D Stomach Model for Surgical Planning
Qaiser Chaudry, May Wang and Yan Xu
Presenter: Qaiser Chaudry
3:00PM–3:15PM | 15:00–15:15
Break...................................................................................................................... IUPUI Conference Center Hallways
3:15 PM–5:00PM | 15:15–17:00
Plenary Keynotes ............................................................................................. Auditorium, IUPUI Conference Center
Distributed and Parallel Programming Environments and
their Performance, Geoffrey Fox
eScience and the Fourth Paradigm: Supporting Data-centric
Science, Tony Hey
7:00PM–9:00PM | 19:00–21:00
Unconference Event ....................................................................................... Conrad Hotel