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As part of the JISC/ESRC Awareness Raising and Training programme, Lancaster University's Centre for e-Science is holding an agenda setting workshop on quantitative methods in e-social science at Lancaster University on 6th April 2005.
By bringing together social scientists, computational scientists and other interested parties the workshop will seek to explore what limitations and restrictions are currently experienced by quantitative e-social scientists.
The aim is to determine priorities for training/tools/services. There are several activities to plug into, for instance the JISC have just spent over £3.OM to help create Virtual Research Environments and the ESRC have just funded two e-Social Science Nodes, (CQeSS - Collaboratory for Quantitative e-Social Science and MOSES - MODELLING AND SIMULATION FOR E-SOCIAL SCIENCE).
It is hoped to establish a collective agenda, so that activities can be co-ordinated to reduce duplication, provide pressure groups and support members of the e-social science community as required.
So far speakers include Dr Rob Allan from CCLRC Daresbury who will be talking about access to resources on the Grid covering both user interfaces and resources/services such as the NGS and data services and Dr Khurshid Ahmad, Professor of Artificial Intelligence from University of Surrey who will be presenting results of work in quantitative methods, especially in the analysis of non-stochastic time varying data and the experience of his team based on the FINGRID project where they created a grid of 24 nodes and analysed tera-bytes of data.
Complimentary accommodation will be available to delegates at Lancaster House Hotel for the night of Wednesday 5th April with a welcome dinner provided. The workshop will commence at 9.00 am on Wednesday 6th April 2005 at Lancaster University (Room A41 Faraday Building). The workshop should be finished by 16:30. There is no cost for attending and expenses will be reimbursed.
If you are unable to travel but are still interested in participating you can join the workshop via AGN "U of Lancaster - eScience" through the Manchester Virtual Venue Server. The session will also be recorded and accessible at a later date via the ReDReSS website http://redress.lancs.ac.uk/.
If you are interested in attending or wish to receive further information please contact Judy Camp, Lancaster University, Centre for e-Science 01524 592175 - [log in to unmask] or Audrienne Cutajar Bezzina - [log in to unmask] by 25th February 2005.
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