e-Science - The Changing Landscape

16 April, 09 09:00 AM - 17 April, 09 05:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

Organiser: Sarah Fulford

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=965

This workshop will discuss the current issues/challenges facing the e-Science community. The e-Science landscape has changed a lot over the past few years and in order to ensure the effective embedding of e-Science we felt it timely to provide an opportunity to consider these changes.

The workshop is being organised by NeSC and will take place on the 16th and 17th April 2009.

The first day

is open only to e-Science Directors and will follow on from the breakout sessions at the last e-Science Directors Forum meeting. If you feel you should be invited to this part of the meeting please contact Sarah Fulford or Anna Kenway.

Some of the issues which will be addressed are:

How do we ensure the embedding of e-Science?
What has happened to the regional role now that not all centres are funded? Where does a new researcher (in a 'non-centre' University) go if they want to find out about e-Science? How do all the centres link together and how do they support each other?
How do we integrate local and national e-Infrastructure?

The second day

will be open to all e-Science and HPC researchers and we will also be inviting university IT service providers. The main focus of the day will be about 'meeting the researchers' and will include:

Success stories (presentations)
Reports on user requirements from eUptake
Half-day 'village market' of demos - timed and in parallel with community discussion after. This could focus on either success stories or available tools or both

Widening the participation will enable the outputs from the first day to be discussed with the wider community, and this will also enable the discussion of how specialist providers (such as the e-Science centres) link in with local university provision.

If you would like to run a demo than please let either Sarah Fulford or Anna Kenway know.

A dinner is being held on the 16 April at 19:30 at the Heights Restaurant.

Visit the Heights Restaurant website

Day 1: Directors' Workshop
10:00	Welcome - Malcolm Atkinson - Overview of where we are now and what this meeting is trying to achieve, order of the day
10:30 - 12:00	Food for thought: Input from research programmes on embedding e-Science - final and interim conclusions - what have we learnt so far? 10:30 Alex Voss (NCeSS) - report on e-Uptake 11:00 Marina Jirotka (OeRC) - report on Embedding e-Science 11:30 Success story: The White Rose Grid - Jie Xu
12:00	Panel discussion and briefing for breakout sessions - John Brooke
12:40	Lunch
13:30	Breakout groups. This follows on from the discussion at the KCL e-Science Directors' Forum.
15:00	Coffee
15:30	Review of break-out group outcomes - Chair: John Brooke
16:00 - 17:30	The way forward - Chair: John Brooke What can we say about the embedding of e-Science? How do we re-organise support for e-Science in the UK? What has happened to the regional roles?
19:30	Dinner at Heights Restaurant
Day 2: Engaging research with e-Infrastructure Chair: Paul Watson
09:30	Welcome - overview of yesterday's outcomes - Malcolm Atkinson
09:45	Leif Laaksonen (Helsinki) on eIRG
10:30	The future of NGS (Andrew Richards)
10:45	The future of OMII-UK (Neil Chue-Hong)
11:00	The future of DCC (Chris Rusbridge)
11:15	Research computing and central IT services - reports from the field (Bruce Beckles)
11:30 - 12:30	Discussion
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:00	Village market demo of success stories.
15:00	Conclusions and next steps. Chair: To be announced
15:30	Close

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

10 Feb - Registration Opens
09 Apr - Registration Deadline
09 Apr - 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.)
16 Apr - Event Starts at 09:00hrs