R User Meeting

20 January, 2010 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

Organiser: Muriel Mewissen

Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=1044

This event aims to bring together the R user community within Edinburgh. It will showcase recent developments made in research projects using R and High Performance Computing (HPC). This meeting aims promote best practices for application development using R on HPC. It will provide a networking opportunity for researchers using R.

Target Audience

This meeting is intended for the local R user community which includes statisticians, biostatisticians, bioinformaticians, mathematicians, computer experts and other area specialists.

Programme

This event is provisionally scheduled to start at 14:00 Wednesday 20 January 2010 and close at 17:00 on Wednesday 20 January 2010.

14:00	Welcome R User Survey Results	Muriel Mewissen	Division of Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh
14:30	MAGIC, a consensus clustering package for R	Dr Ian Simpson	Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh
14:55	R and Eddie for Breast Cancer Bioinformatics	Dr Duncan Sproul	Breakthrough Breast Cancer Group, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre
15:15	Using large datasets in R with ff	Michal Piotrowski	EPCC, University of Edinburgh
15:35	Coffee/Tea
16:05	SPRINT & MPI IO	Savvas Petrou	EPCC, University of Edinburgh
16:25	RMPI	Ms Xu Guo	EPCC, University of Edinburgh
16:50	Wrap up	Muriel Mewissen	Division of Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh

Accommodation

Assistance with accommodation is offered once you have registered.

Registration

Registration for this event is now closed. To enquire about an application or to cancel a previous application please contact NeSC Administration.

Important Dates

17 Nov - Registration Opens
13 Jan - Registration Deadline
13 Jan - Date we will respond to your application by (Please note this is the latest date we will respond to your application. It is normal policy for us to respond within 5 working days where possible.)
20 Jan - Event Starts at 14:00hrs

Travel

Full details on how to get to the e-Science Institute are available at:

http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/esi_travel.html

Enquiries

Enquiries should be made directly to our Conference Administrator.

http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/

The e-Science Institute