Dear all,

As you'll have seen from Robin's email last week, the call for this 
year's All Hands meeting is now out, with a deadline of 1 May. As in 
previous years, the PMB encourages you to submit a paper. Please note 
that this year, you'll need to submit the full 8 page paper as your 
application.

To help raise the success rate of papers, our feedback from last year was:
- make sure the abstract is short, clear, free of HEP jargon, and 
written in reasonably 'academic' style. This will make the paper 
immediately more accessible to reviewers from other fields.
- make clear the relevance of your paper to other projects and 
disciplines across the UK e-Science programme.
- your paper should be written without too many acronyms or too much 
jargon. I'd be happy to read draft papers to help with this.

When you submit your paper or poster application, please send me a copy 
for the GridPP website. Thanks.

Best wishes,
Sarah
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Dr Sarah Pearce
GridPP Dissemination Officer


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Call For Papers: Fifth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting

The Fifth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2006) will be held from 
18-21st September 2006 at the East Midlands Conference Centre in 
Nottingham, UK.

The aim of the meeting is to provide a forum in which e-Science projects 
from all disciplines can be discussed, and where the results from 
projects can be demonstrated. The conference will therefore feature 
presentations by groups from throughout the UK who are active in 
e-Science projects, in addition to poster sessions, mini-workshop 
sessions, project demonstrations, and birds-of-a-feather sessions. The 
schedule will also include a number of invited Keynote speakers involved 
in leading Grid and e-Science activities.

There are several options for participation (please note that to reflect 
the increasing quality of the submissions, this year we are asking for 
full papers to be submitted for review, rather than abstracts):


     * Regular paper. These will be presented in a parallel session, 
with 25 minutes allocated to each paper. Each paper can be up to 8 pages 
in length. Full papers (not abstracts) should be submitted. The deadline 
is the 1st May 2006.
     * Presentation in a mini-workshop (25 mins). The mini-workshops are 
sessions organised by individuals to bring together a number of 
presenters for a particular theme. The call for mini-workshops has 
already gone out, with a deadline of 20th February 2006. The proposals 
will be reviewed and up to ten selected. There will then be a call for 
papers for those workshops (published 1st March 2006) with the same 
format and deadline as for regular papers (1st May 2006).
     * Poster Presentation. There will be a poster session where 
colleagues will have the opportunity to explain projects to the 
conference delegates. Please submit up to four pages for review by 1st 
May 2006.
     * Birds-of-a-Feather. Up to five, two-hour Birds-of-a-Feather 
sessions will be organised. These are sessions that do not have the 
normal session format; for example tutorials, panel sessions, 
discussions etc. If you wish to organise one of these then please submit 
a 2 page summary describing the aims, schedule and intended audience by 
1st April 2006.


A full review process will be managed by the AHM Programme Committee.

Details of the format required for the papers, and how to submit will be 
available shortly at http://www.allhands.org.uk/


There will be proceedings for the conference, which will be provided in 
CD format with an ISBN number. As in previous years we are aiming to 
have the best papers published in special issues of at least one 
journal. This year, for the first time, the Programme Committee will 
present a best paper award, and that paper will be presented in a 
plenary session. There will also be a Best Student Paper award. For a 
paper to qualify, it must have a student as the lead author, and the PC 
chair must be e-mailed to inform him of this once the paper has been 
submitted. This paper will also be presented in a plenary session.

Programme Committee:
Chair, Professor Paul Watson, Newcastle University ([log in to unmask]).
Deputy Chair, Professor Jie Xu, Leeds University ([log in to unmask])