About
The eScience Workshop 2008, held December- 7-8, 2008, brought together scientists from diverse research disciplines to share their research and discuss how computing is shaping their work and facilitating scientific discovery. The 2008 event focused on computing technologies that enable scalable solutions in order to address scientific grand challenges.
Theme: Accelerating Time to Scientific Discovery
In 2007, the Microsoft eScience workshop at RENCI in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, attracted more than 250 scientists, researchers, and academics. There were more than 50 presentations and 100 posters showcasing projects in areas as diverse as astronomy, malaria, and the use of GPUs for scientific computation. Feedback from the attendees was overwhelmingly positive, and the event also served as a venue for Microsoft groups to meet with researchers and discuss future collaborations.
In 2008, we are fortunate to be partnering with Professor Geoffrey Fox from Indiana University and the IEEE eScience Conference. The venue for both events is University Place Conference Center & Hotel at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in Indianapolis, Indiana.
In keeping with the workshop theme, Accelerating Time to Scientific Discovery, there are several new features in support:
- Tutorials that cover facilitatory technologies ranging from cloud computing to virtual research environments and repositories.
- A panel of scientists from diverse research disciplines describe roadblocks and make possible recommendations before opening the floor to questions.
- Birds of a feather sessions.
Sponsor
The primary sponsor for the event is the Microsoft External Research Group, headed by Corporate Vice President Tony Hey.
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Keynotes and Tutorials
Keynotes
The CARMEN Science Cloud
Digital Repositories, Archives and Infrastructures
Peter Wittenburg, Technical Director, Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Distributed and Parallel Programming Environments and their Performance
Geoffrey Fox, Professor, Community Grids Laboratory, School of Informatics, Indiana University, United States
eScience and the Fourth Paradigm: Supporting Data-centric Science
Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft External Research, United States
Tutorials
Cloud Computing Tutorial
Christophe Poulain, Yogesh Simmhan, Bora Beran, and Savas Parastatidis
High Productivity Computing: Taking HPC Mainstream
Research Output Repository Platform (code name 'Famulus')
Trident, A Scientific Workflow Workbench for Data Intensive Computing
Research Presentations
A. Large Scale Data Analysis
GrayWulf: Petascale Data-Intensive Computing for eScience
Alexander Szalay, Gordon Bell, Jan Vandenberg, et al.
Presenter: Alexander Szalay
Pan-STARRS: Learning to Ride the Data Tsunami
Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban, Yogesh Simmhan, Roger Barga, et al.
Presenter: Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban
GPU-Based Interactive Visualization of Billion Point Cosmological Simulations
Tamas Szalay, Volker Springel, and Gerard Lemson
Presenter: Tamas Szalay
HPC-GPU: Large-Scale GPU Accelerated Windows HPC Clusters and Its Application to Advanced Bioinformatics and Structural Proteomics
Satoshi Matsuoka and Akira Nukada
Presenter: Satoshi Matsuoka
B. Data Modeling and Preservation
A Web-Based Resource Model for eScience: Object Reuse and Exchange
Carl Lagoze, Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael Nelson, et al.
Presenter: Carl Lagoze
A Data Model for Environmental Observations
David Valentine, Bora Beran, and Oleg Kapeljushnik
Presenter: Oleg Kapeljushnik
Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration for Distributed Digital Preservation
Chris Jordan, Robert H. McDonald, David Minor, et al.
Presenter: Chris Jordan
Knowledge Discovery Using Data Mined from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectral Images
William Brouwer
Presenter: William Brouwer
C. Genomics
Robin Gutell, David Gardner, and Stuart Ozer
Presenters: David Gardner and Robin Gutell
Harnessing the World’s Computers to Hunt for Disease-Provoking Genes
Mark Silberstein, Assaf Schuster, and Dan Geiger
Presenter: Assaf Schuster
Shared Genomics: Engaging Clinical Scientists with eScience Infrastructure
David Hoyle, Iain Buchan, and Mark Delderfield
Presenter: David Hoyle
Making Sense of Sequences: Comparative Genomics and the New GIS
Peter Ansell, Chris Bowles, Lawrence Buckingham, et al.
Presenter: Xin-Yi Chua
D. Data Visualization
Simplifying the Design of Workflows for Large-Scale Data Exploration and Visualization
Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva
Presenter: Juliana Freire
Querying and Visualizing Data Cube in Mathematica for Environmental Science Applications
Yongluan Zhou, Anshul Jain, Karl Aberer, and Sebastian Michel
Presenter: Sebastian Michel
On-the-fly Visualization of Scientific Geospatial Data Using Wavelets
Cyrus Shahabi, Kai Song, and Farnoush Banaei-Kashani
Presenter: Farnoush Banaei-Kashani
E. Bio Tools
Publication and Consumption of caBIG Data Services Using .NET
Marty Humphrey, Norm Beekwilder, and Jie Li
Presenter: Marty Humphrey
Supporting Life Scientists via End User Programming
Luke Church, Jasmin Fisher, and Katinka Apagyi
Presenter: Luke Church
Microsoft Computational Finance Server as a Platform for Computational Biology – A Pilot Application
Robert Bukowski and Jarek Pillardy
Presenter: Robert Bukowski
BioMashups: The New World of Exploratory Bioinformatics?
James Hogan, Jiro Sumitomo, Paul Roe, and Felicity Newell
Presenter: James Hogan
F. Scientific Frameworks
Software + Services for Engineers
Steven Johnston, Simon Cox, Kenji Takeda, and Phillip Marsh
Presenter: Steven Johnston
Beyond Genes, Proteins and Abstracts: A Framework to Capture Scientific Claims
Catherine Blake
Presenter: Catherine Blake
Cloud Computing Framework Design for Cancer Imaging Research
Maria Susana Avila Garcia, Anne E. Trefethen, et al.
Presenter: Daniel Goodman
Evolving Health Informatics Semantic Frameworks and Metadata-Driven Architectures
Jim Davies, Jeremy Gibbons, Steve Harris, and Denise Warzel
Presenters: Jim Davies, Jeremy Gibbons, and Steve Harris
G. Sensor Data
A Data Centered Collaboration Portal to Support Global Carbon-Flux Analysis
Deb Agarwal and Marty Humphrey
Presenter: Deb Agarwal
Deploying Advanced Wireless Sensor Networks for Ecological Monitoring
Jayant Gupchup, Alex Szalay, Andreas Terzis, et al.
Presenter: Jayant Gupchup
Smart Shoe for Balance, Fall Risk Assessment and Applications in Wireless Health
Hyduke Noshadi, Shaun Ahmadian, Foad Dabiri, et al.
Presenter: Hyduke Noshadi
SenseWeb: Sharing and Browsing Environmental Changes in Real-time
Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, et al.
Presenter: Stewart Tansley
H. Data Interoperability
Dynamic Generation of Interactive Ecosystem Report Cards Using Silverlight and Virtual Earth
Jane Hunter, Abdulmonem Alabri, Andrew Newman, et al.
Presenter: Jane Hunter
The eScience Appliance: Provisioning an Inexpensive Bottom-Up Cyberinfrastructure
Bill Howe and Roger Barga
Presenter: Bill Howe
SciScope: A Data Discovery and Retrieval Tool for Environmental Science
Bora Beran and Catharine van Ingen
Presenter: Bora Beran
I. Web Services for eScience
Accelerating Time to Experiment – The myExperiment Approach to Open Science
David De Roure, Carole Goble, and Jiten Bhagat
Presenter: David De Roure
Biocatalogue: A Curated Web Service Registry for the Life Science Community
Khalid Belhajjame, Carole Goble, Franck Tanoh, et al.
Presenter: Carole Goble
Real-time and Retrospective Analysis of Video Streams and Still Image Collections Using MPEG-7
Ganesh Gopalan
Presenter: Ganesh Gopalan
J. Simulation and Modeling
Processes and Constraints in Scientific Model Construction
Will Bridewell and Pat Langley
Presenter: Will Bridewell
David Holmes, John Williams, and Peter Tilke
Presenter: David Holmes
Development of a 3D Stomach Model for Surgical Planning
Qaiser Chaudry, May Wang, and Yan Xu
Presenter: Qaiser Chaudry
Panel Discussions
Panel: What Do Scientists Really Need to Facilitate Time to Discovery?
Moderator: David Heckerman
Speakers:
- Jeff Dozier, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara: Snowmelt runoff, eScience, and the end of stationarity
- Bryan Traynor, Research Fellow, National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health: What Do Scientists Really Need…
- Jeremy Frey, Professor, University of South Hampton: Science Ajar: Chemistry Clouds and Crowds
- George Djorgovski, Professor, California Institute of Technology: Towards a New Science Methodology
Birds of a Feather Sessions
Semantics for eScience
Chairs: Evelyne Viegas and Eric Neumann
Opening Remarks: Kristin Tolle: My Ontology is not Your Ontology: A skeptic’s perspective
Keynote: Susie Stephens: Semantics for eScience
Speakers:
- Mark Wilkinson: Web 2.0 + Web 3.0 = Web 5.0?
- Chaitali Gupta: Ontological Framework for Enabling Free-Form Search in Scientific Discovery
- Yong Liu: Towards A Spatiotemporal Event-Oriented Ontology
- Mohammed Hassan Haji: Community Data Evaluation using a Semantically Enhanced Modelling Process
- Michael Towsey: BioPatML: Pattern sharing for the Genomic Sciences
- Deborah McGuinness: Semantically-Enabled Science Informatics: With Supporting Knowledge Provenance and Evolution Infrastructure Highlights
- Robert McGrath: “How to build a better Wikipedia”: Ubiquitous Infrastructure for Deep Accountability
- Fatma Y. Eldresi: NeuroSense – A Specialised Search Engine for Neuroscience WebPages
- Jeremy Gibbons: Accelerating Cancer Resaerch Using Semantics-Driven Technology
eScience Inspired Education
Chairs: Yan Xu and Eric Jul
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Speakers:
- Rosalind Reid: Can the next generation of scientists become “computational thinkers”?
- Majid Sarrafzadeh: Digital Design Project Laboratory Course Approach and Experiences
- Charlie Whittaker: Turning Biologists into Bioinformaticists – A Practical Approach
- Rubin Landau: Developing Materials for Computational Physics Education