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Mission and Activities. Malcolm Atkinson & Anna Kenway SAB Directors’ Report 11 May 2009. EPSRC review Thank you & Timetable e-Science growing importance cycle of progress interdependence e-Science Institute focus facilitation activities outcomes e-Science evolves. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Mission and Activities
Malcolm Atkinson & Anna KenwaySAB Directors’ Report
11 May 2009
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Overview
• EPSRC review– Thank you & Timetable
• e-Science– growing importance
– cycle of progress– interdependence
• e-Science Institute– focus– facilitation– activities– outcomes
• e-Science evolves
• Facts and Figures:– overview– themes– visitors– meetings– outreach – (finance)
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Today’s Timetable
10:00 Minutes of previous meeting and matters arising10:30 - 11:15 Directors' reports (MPA, AK)11:15 - 11:30 Long-term Visitor Application Paper D11:30 Theme 6: Arts & Humanities report - Stuart Dunn12:00 Theme 10: Climate change report - Andy Kerr12:30 - 13:30 Lunch13:30 Theme 7: Flybrain report - Douglas Armstrong14:00 Theme 8: Trust and security report - Andrew Martin14:30 Theme 9: Provenance report - James Cheney15:00 Discussion of theme proposal on 'Automated Experimentation' 15:15 Discussion on Future directions - Malcolm Atkinson 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
SAB engagement with the EPSRC mid-term revue of the eSI16:30 - 17:00 SAB meets with EPSRC Review Panel17:00 Formal SAB meeting ends
17:00 - 18:30 Reception in the Chapterhouse with the Review Panel,
theme leaders and others
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Intertwingling
Jim Austin, University of York (chair)Jeremy Frey, University of SouthamptonTom Rodden, Nottingham UniversitySarah Fulford, EPSRC infrastructure programme
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EPSRC Agenda Monday
15:00–16:00 Panel members arrive
Dr Sarah Fulford, Prof Jim Austin, Prof Tom Rodden & Prof Jeremy Frey
16:00–16:30 Private panel meeting (Dean Room)
16:30–17:00 Panel meets with the SAB (ex-officio members of eSI staff withdraw) (Cramond Room)
17:00–18:30 Reception with posters with SAB, UoE and eSI staff, and eSI participants including visitors, theme leaders and frequent attendees (Chapterhouse)
18:30–19:30 Panel check-in to the Radisson
19:30 Dinner where Panel can meet eSI research theme leaders and others involved in the eSI event ‘Capturing e-Science Fundamentals’ (Raeburn Room, Old College)
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EPSRC Agenda Tuesday
Chair Prof Richard Kenway, Vice-Principal for Computational Science
09:00–09:15 Welcome (Cramond Room)
Prof Nigel Brown (Head of College of Science and Engineering)
09:15–09:40 eSI’s mission and activities, Malcolm Atkinson & Dr Anna Kenway
09:40–10:00 Meeting with members of eSI PC (ex-officio members withdraw)
10:00–11:00 Research Theme Leaders: Presentations and discussions
10:00 Theme 3: Adoption of e-Research Technologies, Dr Alex Voss
10:10 Theme 5: Distributed Programming Abstractions
Dr Shantenu Jha & Dr Jon Weissman
10:20 Theme 6: e-Science in the Arts and Humanities, Dr Stuart Dunn
10:30 Theme 7: Neuroinformatics and Grid Techniques to Build a Virtual Fly Brain, Dr Douglas Armstrong, University of Edinburgh
10:40 Theme 8: Trust and Security in Virtual Communities, Dr Andrew Martin
10:50 Theme 9: Principles of Provenance, Dr James Cheney
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EPSRC Agenda Tuesday
11:00–11:15 Coffee break (Chapterhouse)
11:15 Theme 10: Communicating the e-Science of Climate Change
Dr Andrew Kerr, University of Edinburgh
11:25 Theme 11: Next Generation Sky Surveys: Astronomical Opportunities and Computational Challenges
Dr Bob Mann, University of Edinburgh
11:35 Theme 12: The influence and impact of e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users
Prof Mark Baker, University of Reading
11:45–12:00 The Future e-Science Institute
Prof Michael Fourman, Head of School of Informatics
12:00–12:30 General discussion
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e-Science: key enabler
• e-Science Systematic investigation into methods of improving
research by applying advances in computation
• Demand increasing– more data, more models, more uses & users
• Enabler of strategic importance– LWEC, Ageing, Energy, Security, Digital Economy, …
– needed for almost all research priorities
• Benefits– research effectiveness in almost all disciplines
– decisions, business, healthcare & policy
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Cycles of Progress
researchchallengeresearchchallenge
CSinnovation
CSinnovation
technologyinnovationtechnologyinnovation
betterresearch
betterresearch
newchallenges
newchallenges
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Products of Progress
researchchallengeresearchchallenge
CSinnovation
CSinnovation
technologyinnovationtechnologyinnovation
betterresearch
betterresearch
newchallenges
newchallenges
researchbreakthroughs
new CSresults
newcapabilities
newopportunities
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Goal for eSI
researchchallengeresearchchallenge
CSinnovation
CSinnovation
technologyinnovationtechnologyinnovation
betterresearch
betterresearch
newchallenges
newchallenges
researchbreakthroughs
new CSresults
newcapabilities
newopportunities
refined, re-usable and transferable e-Science methods and principles
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Context for eSI
computationalservices &
consultancyadvancedtechnology
development
pioneeringprojects
e-Scienceresearch
Thee-ScienceInstitute
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eSI Activities
• Themes• Responsive events• Visitors• Training and Summer schools• Dissemination
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e-Science Evolves
• 1952 Hodgkin & Huxley use Brunsviga calculators to model “action potentials”
• 1958 Denis Noble struggles to get computer access
• 1971 3 structures in PDB at Brookhaven• 1980 EMBL-Bank• 1995 EBI• 2005 ESFRI roadmap: ELIXIR• 2009 Douglas Kell, CE of BBSRC, expects:
– ~50% of research to be “dry” lab– >95% of research biologists to use “tools”
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eSI 2001
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Your Homework
• For today’s discussion at 15:15• Think about how eSI should evolve– For 2011 to 2015
• I need your advice