Dear Colleagues,
The final event in the e-Science Institute Data-Intensive Research theme
is being juxtaposed with the XLDB-Europe workshop, see
http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/Final_Outreach_Workshop and
http://xldb.eu/xldb_europe_2011/. These will be held in the week of
Monday 6th to Friday 10th June 2011. They are deliberately timed to
precede SIGMOD in Athens the following week.
You are all invited to the DIR workshop and strongly encouraged to apply
for an invitation to XLDB-Europe 2011. We intend that these be very
exciting events demonstrating recent progress in Data-Intensive methods
and their application. On the final two days, XLDB-Europe has a
preference for large-scale data; otherwise we want to encourage
multi-scale thinking -- adapting the approach to the scale and
sophistication that is needed on each occasion.
Please consider contributing material to the workshops. There are three
invitations to contribute on the web site
(http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/Final_Outreach_Workshop#Calls_for_Contributions):
1) DIR updates - substantial recent progress
2) DIR Research Village - presenting your group's achievements, methods
and technology
3) DIR lightening talks - presenting the gist of important new ideas
If you can think of other ways of contributing, please let us know
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address.
The programmes for both workshops are well developed.
You can view the DIR workshop programme here
http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/Final_Outreach_Workshop#Outline_Programme
as it develops.
An outline of the provisional programme for XLDB-Europe 2011 appears
below, and is also being updated regularly on the web page: we are
awaiting a few more confirmations.
Wednesday 8th June
In Business School from 08:30 registration open all day
Programme shown on http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/Wednesday_8th_June
Thursday 9th June
In the Business School
8:30 - registration + light breakfast
9:00 - opening & welcome
9:10 - Michael Wise, LOFAR project manager, ASTRON (Netherlands
Foundation for Research in Astronomy) "Experience with the data from LOFAR"
9:45-10:55 Open Debate: "What does Research Infrastructure really need
for Data?"
Leader: Roger Barga, Microsoft Research Redmond
Leaders of selected ESFRI projects have been invited
10:55 - Coffee + breakout groups "What are the three innovations really
needed to make research infrastructures work?"
12:00 - Reporting back discussion
Walk to the Informatics Forum
12:30 - Lunch
Walk to the business school
13:45 - Open Debate: What is really needed to share research data globally?
Leader: (TBC)
Leaders of global collaborations have been invited
14:45 - Invitation to Relevant European Flagship Projects to Pitch to
XLDB-Europe 2011
15:45 - coffee break
16:15 - SELECTED Lighting talks, that make a pitch to the Data-Intensive
community
17:00 - A match-making opportunity with the Flagship Projects
18:00 - end of session
19:30 - dinner at Royal College of Physicians
Friday 10 June
In Business school
9:00 - Támas Budavŕri, Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns
Hopkins University, "The pitfalls of statistics on large volumes of data"
9:45 - TBD
10:30 - Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Open debate: "What will really work?"
Leader: Jacek Becla, SLAC National Lab & LSST, Stanford (founder of the
XLDB series)
Peter Baumann, School of Engineering & Science, Jacobs University,
Bremen, "RASDAMAN"
Martin Kirsten, CWI, "MonetDB & SciLens"
Anastasia Allamaki, Director Data-Intensive Applications and Systems
Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, "TBC"
Roger Barga, Microsoft Research Redmond, "The Excel Datascope"
13:00 Lunch in the forum
14:00 Facilities for small short meetings and practical work (contact Jo
Newman [log in to unmask] if you want space and an announcement) or a
Guided Edinburgh tour.
I hope that we will see you all at these workshops.
To register for both, please go to the registration page here:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1140/booking.cfm.
With best wishes
Malcolm Atkinson
--
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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