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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:41:12 +0100
From: Lee Callaghan <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: National e-Science Centre News

National e-Science Centre News
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October newsletter now online at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/news/newsletter/October04.pdf

Events outwith eSI
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e-Science in Education - Models for Future Thinking
JISC invites you to attend a one day consultation event on Wednesday 20
October at the Royal Society in London to consider the role of e-science
within the classroom, identify areas for collaboration and provide
feedback on some of the challenges and opportunities for future
planning.

Many organisations throughout the UK have both an interest in and remit
for engaging young people with science.  Active researchers within the
UK increasingly find this ambassadorial role an important part of their
work, and as such are interested in ways in which scientists involved
with cutting-edge technology can work with schools to both encourage
future scientists and support the work of researchers.

JISC has funded three demonstrator projects to investigate how e-science
can be embedded within schools.   In funding this work, JISC recognised
the potential join-up and cross-over with many other initiatives in the
UK, particularly in the work of NESTA Futurelab, Planet Science Big
Jump, ASE's Science Across the World project and the National Science
Learning Centre.

The aims of the day are to:

*         Provide an opportunity for the various organisations and
stakeholders involved in such initiatives to meet and talk
collaboratively
*         Start identifying some of the key challenges identified by
current and completed projects
*         Identify ways forward with potential collaboration and
challenges.

For further information and to book your place, please go to:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/escienceineducation.html

"Towards a User-friendly Grid Environment"
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Prof. Peter Kacsuk will have his inaugural lecture on "Towards a
User-friendly Grid Environment" at University of Westminster, Wednesday
13
October 2004 6.00pm

Further information can be found about this event at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/events/other_events/13102004.pdf

Upcoming Events at NeSC
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Democratization of of Computing - Opportunities and Responsibilities,
Public Lecture by Miron Livny, Thurs 14 October 16:30-18:00

Democratization of of Computing - Opportunities and Responsibilities

The coupling between a continuous decrease in the cost performance ratio
of hardware and an unprecedented international effort to develop
software tools that realize an ambitious vision of a pervasive and
dependable computing infrastructure has the potential to fundamentally
alter the role computing plays in the scientific process. By making
effective and dependable access to significant computing resources a
reality, the ability of a research team to verify a novel hypothesis
will only depend on their creativity and imagination. In other words,
super computing will no more be the privilege of the "super scientists".
While advances in hardware and software technologies drive this
democratization process, the long term impact of these advances depends
on fundamental changes in the way application software and middleware is
developed, maintained and funded. Domain scientists, computer scientists
and the funding agencies bare the responsibility to take the necessary
measures so that we do not miss the opportunity to change the way we do
science. The talk is based on almost two decades of experience in
delivering High Throughput Computing (HTC) capabilities to the
scientific community via the Condor system and our recent involvement in
national and international efforts to develop and deploy grid
technologies.

Bio
Miron Livny received a B.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1975
from the Hebrew University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer
Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1978 and 1984,
respectively. Since 1983 he has been on the Computer Sciences Department
faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is currently a
Professor of Computer Sciences and is leading the Condor project.

Dr. Livny's research focuses on distributed processing and data
management systems and data visualization environments. His recent work
includes the Condor high throughput computing system, the DEVise data
visualization and exploration environment and the BMRB repository for
data from NMR spectroscopy.

Further information can be found at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/486/

GOSC face to face Meeting, 28 October - 29 October 2004, Further
information about this event can be found at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/485/

European Network Policy Group meeting, 28 October - 29 October 2004,
Further information about this event can be found at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/484/

Education and Training in UK e-Science, 01 November - 02 November 2004,
Further information about this event can be found at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/487/








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