Provisional Programme
| Monday 18 September | ||||
| Session | Session | ID | Presentation / Exhibit | Presenter(s) |
| 17:00 - 20:00 | W1: Business Grids Organiser: Andrew Jackson Venue: Auditorium |
[618] | GOLD Infrastructure for Virtual Organisations [PPT] | Panos Periorellis |
| [658] | Legacy Code Support for Commercial Production Grids [PPT] | Tamas Kiss | ||
| [603] | Meeting the Design Challenges of Nano-CMOS Electronics: An Introduction to an Upcoming EPSRC Pilot Project [PPT] | Richard Sinnott | ||
| [638] | Types of grid users and the Customer-Service Provider relationship: a future picture of grid use [PPT] | Mark Norman | ||
| An SAP perspective on Busness Grids [PDF] | Andrew Jackson | |||
| Challenges in the Commercial Adoption of Grid Computing Technologies [PPT] | Ian Osborne | |||
| 17:00 - 20:00 | W2: e-Manufacturing Organiser: Kai Cheng Venue: Conference Room 4 |
e-Manufacturing: characteristics, applications and potentials [PPT] | Kai Cheng and Richard Bateman | |
| Theoretical and practical insights on the complexity of running an e-responsive manufacturing facility | Janet Efstathiou | |||
| Unobtrusive capture of engineering knowledge [PPT] | Heather Rea | |||
| Web-based fixture design and optimization [PDF] | Xun Chen | |||
| Solving complex design layout problems [PDF] | Alan Crispin | |||
| 17:00 - 20:00 | W3: OMII UK Organiser: Steven Newhouse Venue: Conference Room 2 |
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| 17:00 - 20:00 | W4: GT4 Status and Experience Organiser: Jennifer M. Schopf Venue: Conference Room 3 |
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| 17:00 - 20:00 | BoF1: Visualising the Gains of Environmental e-Science Organiser: Martin T Dove Venue: Conference Room 1 |
Grand challenge experiments, model tuning, and their visualisation using the GENIE framework [PPT] | Tim Lenton and Andrew Price | |
| Information delivery and visualisation within the eMinerals project [PDF] | Toby White | |||
| Using Google Maps and other OpenSource GIS software for displaying geospatial data [PPT] | Jon Blower | |||
| Plans for visualising ensemble climate prediction products in the GCEPS project [PPT] | Keith Haines | |||
| Visualization of hyperspectral remote senisng model for coastal water [PPT] | Gen-Tao Chiang | |||
| Viewing services at POL and the Coastal Observatory | Duncan Sterling | |||
| Tuesday 19 September | ||||
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome: Anne Trefethen Chair of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting Steering Committee 2006 Venue: Auditorium |
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| 09:15 - 09:45 | Keynote talk:E-Science: Achievements, Challenges and new Opportunities Malcolm Atkinson, e-Science Envoy [PPT] Chair: Anne Trefethen Venue: Auditorium |
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| 09:45 - 10:45 | Keynote Talk: The NERC e-Science experience Professor Robert Gurney, Director, Environmental Systems Science Centre [PPT] Chair: Anne Trefethen Venue: Auditorium |
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| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee Break Venue: Marquee, Atrium and Main Corridor |
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| 11:15 - 12:15 | Best Paper Awards Chair: Paul Watson Venue: Auditorium |
[595] | Martlet: A Scientific Work-Flow Language for Abstracted Parallisation [PDF] | Daniel Goodman |
| [639] | An Intelligent and Adaptable Grid-based Flood Monitoring and Warning System [PPT] | Phil Greenwood | ||
| 12:15 - 13:45 | Lunch Venue: Marquee |
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| 13:45 - 15:55 | W5: JISC e-Framework Organiser: Matthew Dovey Venue: Auditorium |
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| 13:45 - 15:55 | R1.1: Medical Applications Chair: Jim Austin Venue: Conference Room 1 |
[635] | Supporting the Clinical Trial Recruitment Process through the Grid [PDF] [PPT] | Anthony Stell |
| [652] | Summarisation and Visualisation of e-Health Data Repositories [PPT] | Catalina Hallett | ||
| [671] | eScience Simulation of Clinic Electrophysiology in 3D Human Atrium [PDF] | Sanjay Kharche | ||
| [628] | Integrative Biology : Real Science through e-Science | David Gavaghan and Richard Clayton | ||
| [705] | Developing an Integrative Platform for Cancer Research: a Requirements Engineering Perspective [PDF] | Vito Perrone | ||
| 13:45 - 15:55 | R1.2: Data Management Chair: Richard McClatchey Venue: Conference Room 2 |
[589] | Providing an Effective Data Infrastructure for the Simulation of Complex Materials | Louise Roberts |
| [609] | Remote secured bulk file transfer over HTTP(S) [PDF] | Yibiao li | ||
| [613] | Dynamic Data Replication in LCG 2008 [PPT] | Caitriana Nicholson | ||
| [664] | Optimisation of Grid Enabled Storage at Small Sites [PPT] | Jamie Ferguson | ||
| [681] | Profiling OGSA-DAI Performance for Common Use Patterns [PPT] | Bartosz Dobrzelecki | ||
| 13:45 - 15:55 | R1.3: Grid Infrastructure 1 Chair: Paul Donachy Venue: Conference Room 3 |
[612] | Proxim-CBR: A Scaleable Grid Service Network for Mobile Decision Support [PPT] | Muhammad Alkarouri |
| [665] | Grid monitoring: a holistic approach. [PDF] [PPT] [ODP] | Paul Millar | ||
| [624] | Co-allocation, Fault Tolerance and Grid Computing [PDF] | Mark Mc Keown | ||
| [724] | Designing a Java-based Grid Scheduler using Commodity Services [PPT] | Patrick Wendel | ||
| [616] | The GridSite Toolbar [PPT] | Shiv Kaushal | ||
| 15:55 - 16:25 | Coffee Break Venue: Marquee, Atrium and Main Corridor |
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| 16:25 - 18:05 | W6: Data Curation Organiser: Liz Lyon Venue: Auditorium |
[697] | Metadata-based Discovery: Experience in Crystallography [PPT] | Monica Duke |
| [725] | Curation of Chemistry from Laboratory to Publication [PPT] | Simon Coles | ||
| [588] | Long-term Digital Metadata Curation [PPT] | Arif Shaon | ||
| 16:25 - 18:05 | R2.1: Lightweight Hosting Environments Chair: Steven Newhouse Venue: Conference Room 1 |
[623] | Developing Lightweight Application Execution Mechanisms in Grids | Ligang He |
| [648] | A Lightweight, Scriptable, Web-based Frontend to the SRB [PDF] | Toby O H White | ||
| [675] | A Lightweight Application Hosting Environment for Grid Computing [PPT] | Stefan Zasada | ||
| [711] | Building simple, easy-to-use Grids with Styx Grid Services and SSH [PPT] | Jon D Blower | ||
| 16:25 - 18:05 | R2.2: Visualisation Chair: Ron Perrott Venue: Conference Room 2 |
[593] | Model Based Visualization of Cardiac Virtual Tissue [PPT] | Ken Brodlie and Richard Clayton |
| [651] | Service-Oriented Approach to Collaborative Visualization [PDF] | Haoxiang Wang | ||
| [715] | Investigating Visualization Ontologies | Nick Avis | ||
| [694] | Meshing with Grids: Toward functional abstractions for grid-based visualization [PPT] | David Duke | ||
| 16:25 - 18:05 | R2.3: Security 1 Chair: Luc Moreau Venue: Conference Room 3 |
[607] | Application of Fault Injection to Globus Grid Middleware [PPT] | Nik Looker |
| [644] | Grid Single Sign-On in CCLRC [PDF] | Matthew Viljoen | ||
| [655] | A case for Shibboleth and grid security: are we paranoid about identity? [PPT] | Mark Norman | ||
| 16:25 - 18:05 | R2.4: Service Oriented Architectures Chair: Dave Berry Venue: Conference Room 4 |
[608] | Service-Oriented Matchmaking and Brokerage [PDF] | Julian A Padget |
| [621] | Best Practices in Web Service Style, Data Binding and Validation for use in Data-Centric Scientific Applications [PPT] | David Meredith | ||
| [703] | Service-enabling Legacy Applications for the GENIE Project [PPT] | Sofia Panagiotidi | ||
| 18:05 - 19:00 | BoF2: Anyone interested in a National Visualization Service? Organiser: Ian Grimstead Venue: Conference Room 2 |
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| 18:30 - 20:00 | Poster Session & Drinks Venue: Marquee |
[582] | Grid computing in High Energy Physics using LCG: the BaBar experience [PDF] [PPT] | J C Werner |
| [584] | Building a distributed software environment at UCL utilising a switched light path | Valeria Bartsch | ||
| [591] | Collaborative Visualization of 3D Point Based Anatomical Model within a Grid Enabled Environment | Ian Grimstead | ||
| [592] | Alternative Security Architectures for e-Science | Hoon Wei Lim | ||
| [596] | Can Intelligent Optimisation Techniques Improve Computing Job Scheduling In A Grid Environment? Review, Problem and Proposal | Wei Huang | ||
| [598] | Preserving Scientific Data with XMLArch | Carwyn Edwards | ||
| [601] | FEA of Slope Failures with a Stochastic Distribution of Soil Properties Developed and Run on the Grid | Joanna Leng | ||
| [602] | On Building Trusted Digital Preservation Repositories | Reagan W Moore | ||
| [605] | Application of the NERC Data Grid Metadata and Data Models in the NERC Ecological Data Grid (EcoGrid) | Neil Bennett | ||
| [610] | The GridSite Proxy Delegation Service | Andrew McNab | ||
| [622] | Survey of major tools and technologies for grid-enabled portal development | Xiaoyu Yang | ||
| [630] | Integrating R into Discovery Net System | Xinzhong Li | ||
| [631] | Cardiff University's Condor Pool: Background, Case Studies, and fEC | James Osborne | ||
| [634] | A Peer-to-peer Architecture for e-Science | Stratis D Viglas | ||
| [645] | GREMO: A GT4 based Resource Monitor | Vijay Sahota | ||
| [647] | Evaluation of Authentication-Authorization Tools for VO Security | Jake Wu | ||
| [649] | Simple Grid Access using the Business Process Execution Language | Clovis Chapman | ||
| [650] | Automatic metadata capture and grid computing | Martin T Dove | ||
| [663] | Automating Metadata Extraction: Genre Classification | Seamus Ross | ||
| [669] | Solving Grid interoperability between 2nd and 3rd generation Grids by the integrated P-GRADE/GEMLCA portal [PDF] | Tamas Kiss | ||
| [670] | The Combechem MQTT Lego Microscope. A grid enabled scientific appratus demonstrator. | Jamie Robinson | ||
| [672] | Dynamic Operating Policies for Commercial Hosting Environments | J Slegers and C Smith | ||
| [680] | A framework for Grid-based fault detection in an automated laboratory robot system | Christopher Foulston | ||
| [682] | Deciding semantic matching of stateless services | Evgeny Zolin | ||
| [683] | Distributed, high-performance earthquake deformation analysis and modelling facilitated by Discovery Net | Vasa Curcin | ||
| [685] | 'SED Service': Science Application based on Virtual Observatory Technology | Paresh Prema | ||
| [686] | Topology-aware Fault-Tolerance in Service-Oriented Grids | Paul Townend | ||
| [687] | Alternative interfaces for OWL ontologies | Hai wang | ||
| [696] | Constructing Chained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of HIV-1 Protease Using the Application Hosting Environment | Kashif Sadiq | ||
| [698] | PRATA: A System for XML Publishing, Integration and View Maintenance | Shuai Ma | ||
| [699] | Research Methods for Eliciting e-Research User Requirements | Florian Urmetzer | ||
| [701] | A generic approach to High Performance Visualization enabled Augmented Reality | Chris J Hughes | ||
| [708] | Modelling Rail Passenger Movements through e-Science Methods | Jeremy Cohen | ||
| [710] | Putting Pen to Paper: Capturing an Integrative Biologist's Paper Trail [PDF] | Matthew Mascord | ||
| [714] | Incorporating Simulation Data into the Virtual Observatory | Laurie Shaw | ||
| [728] | CIMA: Common Instrument Middleware Architecture | Peter Turner | ||
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Light Tapas Buffet Venue: Marquee |
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| 20:00 - 00:00 | Evening Free for Delegates | |||
| Wednesday 20 September | ||||
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Keynote Talk: The NSF vision of Cyberinfrastructure supporting e-Research, e-learning and engagement (tbc) Professor Dan Atkins, Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure, NSF [PDF] Chair: John O’Reilly Venue: Auditorium |
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| 09:45 - 10:30 | Keynote talk: Silchester Roman Town: the challenges, aspirations and experience of developing a VRE for Archaeology Professor Michael Fulford, Archaeology, University of Reading [PPS] Chair: Ken Brodlie Venue: Auditorium |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break Venue: Marquee, Atrium and Main Corridor |
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| 11:00 - 12:15 | BOF3: Education and Training Organiser: Mike Mineter Venue: Auditorium |
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| 11:00 - 12:15 | R3.1: Security 2 Chair: Richard Sinnott Venue: Conference Room 1 |
[606] | ShibVomGSite: A Framework for Providing Username and Password Support to GridSite with Attribute based Authorization using Shibboleth and VOMS [PDF] | Joseph Olufemi Dada |
| [627] | Instance-Level Security Management in Web Service Business Processes | Dacheng Zhang | ||
| [636] | A user-friendly approach to computational grid security [PPT] | Bruce Beckles | ||
| 11:00 - 12:15 | R3.2: Virtual Organisations Chair: Rob Allan Venue: Conference Room 2 |
[632] | A virtual research organization enabled by eMinerals minigrid: an integrated study of the transport and immobilisation of arsenic species in the environment [PPT] | Zhimei Du |
| [643] | The GOLD Project: Architecture, Development and Deployment [PPT] | Ellis Solaiman / Rob Smith | ||
| [690] | VOMS deployment in GridPP and NGS | Mike Jones | ||
| 11:00 - 12:15 | R3.3: User Interfaces Chair: Jon Blower Venue: Conference Room 3 |
[590] | The RealityGrid PDA and Smartphone Clients: Developing effective handheld user interfaces for e-Science [PPT] | Ian R. Holmes |
| [693] | Application Reuse Through Portal Frameworks [PPT] | Rahim Lakhoo | ||
| [719] | GANGA: A Grid User Interface for Distributed Data Analysis [PPT] | Alexander Soroko | ||
| 11:00 - 12:15 | R3.4: Social Science Applications Chair: Stuart Dunn Venue: Conference Room 4 |
[641] | Grid Enabled Data Fusion for Calculating Poverty Measures [PPT] | Simon Peters |
| [656] | GEODE - Sharing Occupational Data Through The Grid [PPT] | Koon Leai Larry Tan | ||
| [718] | The National Centre for e-Social Science | Rob Procter | ||
| 12:15 - 13:45 | Lunch Venue: Marquee |
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| 13:45 - 15:45 | Demo Session | |||
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee Break Venue: Marquee, Atrium and Main Corridor |
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| 16:15 - 17:00 | Keynote talk: Some brief notes on Science towards 2020 Stephen Emmott, Director European Science Programme, Microsoft Research Chair: Ron Perrott Venue: Auditorium |
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| 17:00 - 19:00 | W7: UK-China Organiser: Nik Looker Venue: Conference Room 1 |
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| 17:00 - 19:00 | BoF4: UK National Grid Service User Forum Organiser: Andrew Richards Venue: Conference Room 2 |
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| 17:00 - 19:00 | BoF5: Simulation on the grid Organiser: Sharon Lloyd & Georgios K. Theodoropoulos Venue: Conference Room 3 |
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| 17:00 - 19:00 | BoF6: Access Grid Organiser: Michael Daw Venue: Conference Room 4 |
Access Grid Quality Survey & New Services Update [PPT] | Michael Daw | |
| Update on SUMOVER Project - Developing VIC & RAT [PDF] | Piers O'Hanlon, Peter Kirstein,Socrates Varakliotis | |||
| New Developments in Access Grid [PDF] | Ian Dennell | |||
| Survey of the Audio/Video/Data Collaborative Software Market | Nicolas Bertrand | |||
| Open Discussion | ||||
| 17:00 - 19:00 | W8: Arts and Humanities Organiser: Stuart Dunn Venue: Auditorium |
AHDS | Shelia Anderson | |
| e-Science in the Humanities | William Kilbride | |||
| e-Science in the Arts [PPT] | Angela Piccini | |||
| Response | Anne Trefethen | |||
| Response | David de Roure | |||
| Open Discussion | ||||
| 19:15 - 20:00 | Pre-Dinner Drinks Venue: Atrium |
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| 20:00 - 23:30 | Gala Evening with Buffet Dinner Venue: Marquee |
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| Thursday 21 September | ||||
| 09:00 - 10:40 | BoF 7: Usable Systems in the Global Environment Organiser: Nicholas Walton Venue: Auditorium |
Introduction | Nic Walton | |
| Experiences from CancerGrid and caBIG; what are the real issues in international interoperability? [PPT] | Peter MacCallum | |||
| eMinerals in the International Context [PPT] | Martin Dove | |||
| GridPP: the UK's contribution to the international collaboration building a worldwide Grid, the LHC Computing Grid. [PPT] | Tony Doyle | |||
| OMII-UK - supporting the UK e-Science community and their international collaborators [PPT] | Steven Newhouse | |||
| Balancing UK Service demands with building a Virtual Observatory infrastruture for Europe [PDF] | Nic Walton | |||
| Challenges in building an integrated system for medical research in an international context. [PPT] | Sharon Lloyd | |||
| 09:00 - 10:40 | R4.1: Workflow Chair: Omer Rana Venue: Conference Room 1 |
[620] | Towards a Bell-Curve Calculus for e-Science [PPT] | Lin Yang |
| [659] | Dynamic Discovery of Composable Type Adapters for Practical Web Services Workflow [PDF] | Terry R Payne | ||
| [673] | GridWorkflow Scheduling in WOSE [PPT] | Yash Patel | ||
| [676] | Collaborative study of GENIEfy Earth System Models using scripted database workflows in a Grid-enabled PSE [PPT] | Andrew Price | ||
| 09:00 - 10:40 | R4.2: Production Grids Chair: Peter Dew Venue: Conference Room 2 |
[615] | GridPP: From Prototype to Production [PPT] | David Britton |
| [625] | OxGrid, a campus grid for the University of Oxford [PPT] | David Wallom | ||
| [660] | GridPP: Running a Production Grid [PPT] | Stephen Burke | ||
| 09:00 - 10:40 | R4.3: Knowledge Extraction & Representation Chair: Paul Watson Venue: Conference Room 3 |
[666] | Application and Uses of CML within the eMinerals project [PDF] | Toby O H White |
| [689] | An Architecture for Language Processing for Scientific Texts [PPT] | Ann Copestake | ||
| [678] | Flexible Interfaces in the Application of Language Technology to an eScience Corpus [PPT] | C J Rupp | ||
| [688] | The CLEF Chronicle: Transforming Patient Records into an e-Science Resource [PPT] | Colin Puleston | ||
| 09:00 - 10:40 | R4.4: Scientific Applications 1 Chair: Simon Cox Venue: Conference Room 4 |
[702] | The BIOPATTERN Grid - Implementation and Applications [PDF] | Pin Hu |
| [637] | Using eScience to calibrate our tools: parameterisation of quantum mechanical calculations with grid technologies [PPT] | Kat Austen | ||
| [640] | Anatomy of a grid-enabled molecular simulation study: the compressibility of amorphous silica [PDF] | Andrew M Walker | ||
| [617] | Analysis and Outcomes of the Grid-Enabled Engineering Body Scanner [PPT] | Daniela Tsaneva | ||
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee Break Venue: Marquee, Atrium and Main Corridor |
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| 11:10 - 13:15 | W9: UK-Korea Organiser: Kum Won Cho Venue: Auditorium |
Overview of the UK e-Science Project | Malcolm Atkinson | |
| Overview of the Korean National e-Science Project [PPT] | Jysoo Lee | |||
| MSF and MAGE: e-Science Middleware for BT Applications [PPT] | Jaeyoung Choi | |||
| The MGrid Integrated Molecular Simulation System and Its Applications [PDF] | Karpjoo Jeong | |||
| e-AIRS: e-Science Aerospace Research Integrated System [PDF] | Chongam Kim | |||
| Discussion & Wrap-up | ||||
| 11:10 - 13:15 | R5.1: Security 3 Chair: Jie Xu Venue: Conference Room 1 |
[674] | DyVOSE Project: Experiences in Applying Privilege Management Infrastructures [PPT] | John Watt |
| [677] | Building a Modular Authorization Infrastructure [PDF] | David Chadwick | ||
| [692] | A View Based Security Framework for XML [PPT] | Xibei Jia | ||
| [721] | Semantic Security in Service Oriented Environments [PDF] | Terry Payne | ||
| [722] | Formal Analysis of Access Control Policies | Jeremy Bryans | ||
| 11:10 - 13:15 | R5.2: Semantics Chair: Peter Murray-Rust Venue: Conference Room 2 |
[600] | RSSM: A Rough Sets based Service Matchmaking Algorithm [PPT] | Dr Maozhen Li |
| [614] | Semantic Units for Scientific Data Exchange [PPT] | Kieron Taylor | ||
| [626] | The ISIS Facilities Ontology and OntoMaintainer [PPT] | Louisa Casely-Hayford | ||
| [704] | Service Composition in the Context of Grid [PPT] | Xiaofeng Du | ||
| [713] | Annotating scientific data: why it is important and why it is difficult | Peter Buneman | ||
| 11:10 - 13:15 | R5.3: Grid Infrastructure 2 Chair: John Brooke Venue: Conference Room 3 |
[726] | The OMII Software Distribution [PPT] | Steven Newhouse |
| [642] | Job submission to grid computing environments [PDF] | Richard P Bruin | ||
| [657] | The BROADEN Distributed Tool, Service and Data Architecture [PDF] | Tom Jackson / Martyn Fletcher | ||
| [668] | gridMonSteer: Generic Architecture for Monitoring and Steering Legacy Applications in Grid Environments | Ian Wang | ||
| 11:10 - 13:15 | R5.4: Scientific Applications 2 Chair: Mark Hayes Venue: Conference Room 4 |
[646] | SolarB Global DataGrid [PPT] | Tim Folkes |
| [661] | eSDO Algorithms, Data Centre and Visualization Tools for the UK Virtual Observatory [PPT] | Elizabeth Auden | ||
| [709] | e-Science Tools For The Genomic Scale Characterisation Of Bacterial Secreted Proteins [PPT] | Tracy Craddock | ||
| [720] | Distributed Analysis in the ATLAS Experiment [PDF] | Mr Chun Lik Tan | ||
| 13:15 - 14:30 | Lunch Venue: Marquee |
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| 14:30 - 15:30 | Keynote talk: e-Research the JISC way (tbc) Professor Dave De Roure, Head of Grid and Pervasive Computing in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Chair: Malcolm Read Venue: Auditorium |
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| 15:30 - 16:15 | Raffle Prize and Close of Meeting [PPT] Chair: Malcolm Atkinson Venue: Auditorium |
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