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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:52:55 +0100
From: Andrea Grainger <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: E-Science Event: Scientific Data Mining,
Integration and Visualization (SDMIV)
Dear All
The e-Science Institute is pleased to announce that we are hosting a Workshop on Scientific Data Mining, Integration and Visualization, to be held in Edinburgh on 24-25 October 2002.
Purpose of the Workshop
The importance of data and knowledge extraction in science is growing. Fields as diverse as bioinformatics, geophysics, astronomy, medicine, meteorology and particle physics are among many facing the situation where data are becoming larger and more intricate. Furthermore the requirements scientists have of the data are becoming increasingly complicated, utilizing state of the art analysis techniques such as those made available by the machine learning/data mining communities and increasingly more powerful visualization techniques. Improvements in computational infrastructure make the results from an ever larger number of data and computing resources accessible from the scientist's desktop, even when those resources are distributed worldwide. A prime challenge for e-science is to enable the effective extraction, integration, analysis and presentation of knowledge from the data avalanche, so that the scientist can exploit its potential.
Who should attend?
Those who wish to influence the UK e-science agenda of the future: members of the data integration, machine learning/data mining and visualization communities, computer scientists designing and building the infrastructure these disciplines use and researchers from any data-intensive field who realize that they will need the expertise from all these other areas to do their science effectively. Effort and contributions will be required of participants to produce a final report.
Attendance will be limited and will therefore be by invitation only. Those wishing to be invited should complete the application form at this site, briefly outlining their background and stating what they see as the main challenges and opportunities in this area. The deadline for applications is 7 October 2002 and workshop invitations will be issued very soon thereafter.
For more information, and an application form, please see http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/sdmiv/.
National e-Science Centre
15 South College Street
Edinburgh EH10 4LZ
Tel: +44 (0)131 650 9817
Fax: +44 (0)131 650 9819
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