Welcome to the UK e-Science 2008 All Hands Meeting Website

AHM PROCEEDINGS: A list of the Key papers selected from AHM2008 to be published in two special Theme Issues of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A is now available. The publication details are: P V Coveney & M P Atkinson (editors), "Crossing Boundaries:  Computational Science, e-Science and Global e-Infrastructure"; Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008 Phil Trans R Soc A Vol. 367, issue nos 1897 & 1898 (2009), in press.

KEYNOTE VIDEOS: Most of the Keynote presentations given at AHM 2008 are now available to watch online.

The meeting took place in Edinburgh, from the 8th - 11th September 2008
Photographs taken at the meeting by Peter Tuffy are available at http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~pjt/library/lib11c/lib11c.htm

Crossing Boundaries: Computational Science, E-Science and Global E-Infrastructures

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I am delighted to be acting as Chairman of this year's Conference Programme. Both my appointment and the location chosen in 2008 herald a new approach, which is also reflected in the title of this year's meeting. We intend to promote much more seriously the domain application aspects of e-Science in 2008. To shape the meeting into one which truly achieves the aims implied by its title, we need to attain a genuine synergy between computer scientists and computational scientists and researchers in all domains, achievable by facilitating access to, and exploitation of, all kinds of distinct resources across disparate administrative boundaries.

Our success will be determined by the extent to which we are able to construct a lively and exciting programme for all anticipated participants, by our ability to build on this meeting to facilitate new ways of doing science, and to create bold new initiatives at national and international levels in the years to come to sustain our international leadership in e-Science and computational science. I am sure that, together, we will be more than able to meet this challenge!

Peter Coveney