This is the principal e-Science meeting in the UK and brings together researchers from all disciplines, computer scientists and developers to meet and exchange ideas. The meeting is in its seventh year and normally attracts between 500 and 600 participants. The theme for this year’s meeting is 'Crossing Boundaries: Computational Science, E-Science and Global E-Infrastructures'. The appointment of Professor Peter Coveney (UCL) as Programme Chair, heralds a new approach. This year, for the first time, key papers will be published in two back to back editions of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A in the early part of 2009, with the title 'Crossing Boundaries: Computational Science, E-Science and Global E-Infrastructures'. One of the central aims of this year’s meeting is to promote the domain specific applications aspects of e-Science, as well as building bridges between the three communities of the theme title.
The general format of the meeting will include cross-community symposia (kicked off by invited key speakers) and workshops. The workshops are being championed by Programme Committee members in what are considered to be key areas of e-Science that need to be addressed, rather than by a call for workshops as has been done in the past.There will also be opportunities to present 20 minute talks.
The proposed workshops include:
- Delivering Grid Services - the role of Central Computing Services
- Infrastructure Provision for ‘Grids’: Infrastructure for Users
- Software Development for Scientific Applications: current and future perspectives
- Information Assurance for the Grid: Crossing Boundaries between Stakeholders
- e-Science Applications in Computational Science: Advancing Research Across Scales
- Interactive e-Science to Support Creativity and Intuition in Research
- HPC Grids of Continental Scope
- Computational Biomedicine
- The Global Data Centric View
Further details about the workshops and important information about the submission and review process, including guidelines for authors can be found at: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2008/programme/call.cfm
Enquiries: Please address any enquiries about abstract submission to admin@allhands.org.uk
