Programme


Mon 9 Nov: Workshops and conference welcome

08:30 - 09:00 Workshop registration and coffee
09:00 - 12:30 Tools and technologies for the Social Sciences and Humanities      
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 17:00 Institutional approaches to data management support:  exploring different models Data mining: An overview Authentication and authorisation: AAF & ARCS  
 
18:00 - 19:30 Conference welcome reception
 

Tue 10 Nov: Conference day 1

08:30 - 09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00 - 10:45 Opening plenary
09:00 - 09:05 Welcome: Nick Tate, Conference Chair
09:05 - 09:15 Opening: The Hon Richard Marles, MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry
09:15 - 10:05 Keynote: Science and Data: How the Information Revolution has changed their relationship
Dr John Rumble (Information International Associates)
10:05 - 10:45 AeRIC eResearch Forum, Introduction: Rhys Francis, Executive Director AeRIC
10:45 - 11:15 Morning tea
11:15 - 12:25 Stream 1: eResearch in the Humanities Stream 2: eResearch in the Geosciences Stream 3: Collaboration environments Sponsors
11:15 - 11:35 Virtual Recreations of Historical Theatres: How VR Meets Theatre History
Joanne Tompkins (University of Queensland)
ARCS Compute Grid Supporting Research Community Development: the Underworld Case Study
Wendy Mason (Monash University)
Is eResearch about the technology?: space, platforms, hubs and social change
Ingrid Mason (Collections Australia Network)
IBM
Challenges on the road to exascale computing
Glenn Wightwick (IBM Australia)

11:40 - 12:00 The Black Loyalist Project: Developing a digital repository to enable eResearch
Robin Petterd, Kit Candlin, and Cassandra Pybus (Sprout Labs)
A Grid-Based Facility for Large-Scale Cross-Correlation of Continuous Seismic Data
Kevin Buckley (Victoria University of Wellington)
Social Networking and Weblog Sites for Researchers
Lev Lafayette (Australian Research Collaboration Service)
DataDirect Networks
Exploring Mass Storage Concepts to Support Exascale Architectures
Dave Fellinger (CTO, DataDirect Networks Inc)
12:05 - 12:25 Delivering Digital Services for a National Research Network: Lessons and Implications for E-Research in the Humanities
Toby Burrows (University of Western Australia)
Building clients for the AuScope Spatial Information Services Stack
Mathew Wyatt (CSIRO)
Infrastructure for problem-based collaborative research: aligning research, policy and practice
Maude Frances (University of New South Wales)

IDBS
Research Informatics for Translational Medicine
Yike Guo (IDBS)

12:25 - 13:50

Lunch

13:50 - 15:00 Stream 1: eResearch in the Humanities Stream 2: eResearch in the Chemical and Life Sciences Stream 3: Collaboration environments Sponsors
13:50 - 14:10 Exploring Archival Collections with Interactive Visualisation
Mitchell Whitelaw (University of Canberra)
Finding Friends Outside the Species: Making Sense of Large Scale BLAST Results with Silvermap
Jim Hogan (Queensland University of Technology)
Connecting Video Collaboration Systems to Facilitate Inter-Organisation Communication
Jason Bell and Phillippe Galvez (Australian Research Collaboration Service)
SGI
Energy Efficient HPC: Complementing Green Hardware with Green Software
David Kelly (SGI)

14:15 - 14:35 Creating an eResearch Desktop for the Humanities
Duncan Dickinson (University of Southern Queensland)
Fast Food for the Computational Chemist! A programmable cross-platform environment for computational chemists
V. Ganesh (Australian National University)
Efficient Provision of Online Collaborative Workspaces
David Breitkreutz and Diana Hardy (James Cook University)
Sun Microsystems & Intel
Progress on the Supercomputer NCI National Facility at ANU
Ben Evans (ANU Supercomputer Facility), Peter Kerney (Intel) & Kevin Mayo (Sun Microsystems)

14:40 - 15:00 Integrating knowledge for online presentation - case studies in connecting things with Heurist
Steven Hayes (University of Sydney)
Grid Enabled Workflows: An Example From Computational Chemistry
Sean Fleming (iVEC)
Connecting Applications - Plone as a Tool for Connectivity to other Resources
Russell Sim (Australian Research Collaboration Service)
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon tea
15:30 - 17:00 Birds of a Feather
AusStage and the Aus-e-Stage Project: Collaborative eResearch in the Performing Arts
Birds of a Feather
Social Networking for Researchers
Birds of a Feather
Authorisation community developments
Birds of a Feather
eResearch Intermediares
Birds of a Feather
Connecting bits across the Tasman
17:15 - 18:45 Posters and live demonstrations event

Wed 11 Nov: Conference day 2

08:30 - 09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00 - 10:30 Plenary session
09:00 - 09:05 Announcements
09:05 - 09:55 Keynote: Virtualization of Science and Scholarship
Prof S. George Djorgovski (Caltech)
09:55 - 10:30 Featured talk: Open Science Grid
Prof Paul Avery (University of Florida)
10:30 - 11:00 Morning tea
11:00 - 12:10 Stream 1: eResearch in Health Stream 2: Remote and automatic instrumentation Stream 3: Using the data cloud Sponsors
11:00 - 11:20 BCEES evaluating cost-effectiveness of eResearch Tools
Troy Sadkowsky (Data Scientists Pty Ltd)
Remote Instrumentation and Collaboration eResearch Environments at the Australian Synchrotron, ANSTO and La Trobe University
Chris Myers (VeRSI)
Linked Open Data: a new resource for eResearch
Anne Cregan (Intersect, NICTA)
XENON
The NVIDIA "Fermi" GPU Computing Architecture
Mark Harris (XENON / NVIDIA Corporation)

11:25 - 11:45 A Data Laboratory for Health Services and Population Health Research
Robyn Rebollo (Griffith University)
Listening to Nature: Techniques for Large-scale Monitoring of Ecosystems using Acoustics
Paul Roe (Queensland Univiversity of Technology)
Collaborative development of cross-database Bio2RDF queries
Peter Ansell (Queensland University of Technology)
Accelrys
Scientific Business Intelligence using Pipeline Pilot
Anneliese Appleton (Accelrys)

11:50 - 12:10 Experiences in enabling digital pathology for research in Victoria
Steve Quenette (VPAC)
eVLBI: Networks bringing radio telescopes together
Chris Phillips (CSIRO ATNF)
A Federated Repository Solution for Large Scientific Datasets
Steve Androulakis (Monash University)
Sun Microsystems
Building Multi-Petabyte Scientific Data Stores
Guy Havenstein & Kevin Mayo (Sun Microsystems)

12:10 - 13:40

Lunch

13:40 - 14:50 Stream 1: eResearch in Health Stream 2: Understanding practices and building capabilities Stream 3: Collaborating in the data cloud Sponsors
13:40 - 14:00 CART-wheel Centre for Analysis of Rare Tumours
Naomi Rafael (BioGrid Australia)
eResearch Training for Higher Degree Students
Jennifer Warburton (The University of Melbourne)
There are some questions that can’t be answered by Google
Jeremy Barker (Queensland Facility For Advanced Bioinformatics)
Intel
Parallelize your code with Intel software development tools
Xiaoping Duan (Intel)

14:05 - 14:25 An Example of eResearch: The Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank
Frans Henskens (University of Newcastle)
eResearch practices, barriers and needs for support: Preliminary study findings from four NSW universities
Leonie Hellmers (Intersect Australia Ltd)
Universal Collaborative Annotations with Thin Clients – Supporting User Feedback to the Atlas of Living Australia
Ron Chernich (University of Queensland)
Microsoft
Perspectives on Cloud Computing
Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney)

14:30 - 14:50 Healthy.me: an online research platform to support consumer health decision making
Annie Lau and Farshid Anvari (University of New South Wales)

Building eResearch Services, Capabilities and Capacity
Joseph Young (Queensland University of Technology)
Tools for Researchers – Microsoft Research & the Scholarly Information Ecosystem
Alex Wade and Lee Dirks (Microsoft Research)
Oracle
Building Collaborative Web 2.0 research spaces with just a few clicks while maintaining security and knowledge management standards
Andrew James
14:50 - 15:20 Afternoon tea
15:20 - 16:50 Birds of a Feather
How can we use eResearch to enable Australian Bioscience? 
Birds of a Feather
eResearch Education and Training
Birds of a Feather
Boundaryless eResearch: use the Web, use Linked Open Data
Birds of a Feather
Defining and managing eResearch services
18:30 - 21:30 Conference dinner
         

Thu 12 Nov: Conference day 3

08:30 - 09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00 - 10:15

Plenary session

09:00 - 09:05 Announcements
09:05 - 09:55

Keynote: Life off the (Cartesian) grid
Dr Torsten Möller (Simon Fraser University)

09:55 - 10:15 Visualization Challenge Award
10:15 - 10:40 Morning tea
10:40 - 11:50 Stream 1: eResearch in Water and Marine Sciences Stream 2: Architectures for crossing boundaries Stream 3: Publishing data Sponsors
10:40 - 11:00 Data Ingestion for Water e-Research
Kerry Taylor (CSIRO ICT Centre)
Designing Large-scale Collaborations
Lyle Winton, Jared Winton, and Ann Borda (VeRSI)
Seeding the Australian Data Commons by Blurring the Boundaries
Anna Shadbolt and Simon Porter (University of Melbourne)
Cisco
Collaboration Lessons from the Commercial World
Peter Elford (Cisco)

11:05 - 11:25 Dynamic Generation of Online, Interactive, Environmental Report Cards
Jane Hunter (University of Queensland)
Implementing a service-oriented architecture for earth resources information
Gavin Stilgoe (Victorian Department of Primary Industries)
Publish My Data: Brought to you by the services of ANDS and ARCS, and the letter D
Adrian Burton (Australian National Data Service)
IDBS
Informatics for value based healthcare
Yike Guo (IDBS)

11:30 - 11:50 A data delivery system for IMOS, the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System
Roger Proctor (University of Tasmania)
Modelling generic e-Scholarship infrastructure with the e-Framework
Steve Bennett (Link Affiliates)
ARCS Data Services
Florian Goessmann (Australian Research Collaboration Service)
 
11:50 - 12:50

Lunch

12:50 - 14:00 Stream 1: Discovery and access infrastructures Stream 2: Languages and text mining Stream 3: Sharing data across national and discipline boundaries DERCAP09
12:50 - 13:10 The Marine and Climate Data Discovery and Access Project (MACDDAP)
Peter Blain (University of Tasmania)
The Australian National Corpus Initiative: Technical and Legal Issues
Steve Cassidy (Macquarie University)
Australia's Role In Creating a Polar Information Commons
Kim Finney (Australian Antarctic Division)
AARNet and PacificWave:
Driving eResearch Across the Pacific 2009. (By invitation. Continues Thursday late afternoon and Friday.)
13:15 - 13:35 Organising massive resource collections in a research infrastructure
Mark Gahegan (University of Auckland)
Towards Cross-Language and Cross-Domain Exploration of Research Platforms
Florian Quadt (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University)
Sharing environmental data: the role of an information policy framework and copyright licensing
Anne Fitzgerald (Queensland University of Technology)
13:40 - 14:00 eResearch in New Zealand
Julie Watson (Ministry of Research Science and Technology, New Zealand)
Enabling Sophisticated Financial Text Mining
Calum Robertson (Sirca)
Standards: a critical enabler for cross-disciplinary scientific research….but who?
Lesley Wyborn (Geoscience Australia , National Data in Science Committee)
14:00 - 14:20 Afternoon tea
14:20 - 16:10 Closing plenary
14:20 - 15:10 AeRIC eResearch Forum, Discussion: Rhys Francis, Executive Director AeRIC
15:10 - 16:00 Locknote: Open Science at Web Scale: breaking all boundaries?
Dr Liz Lyon (UKOLN)
16:00 - 16:10 Conference closing

Fri 13 Nov: Workshops

08:30 - 09:00 Workshop registration and coffee
09:00 - 12:30 Water information modeling and management workshop Integrated data services: ARCS & ANDS Project management for eResearch software development projects Using the ARCS Grid
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 17:00 Water information modeling and management workshop (continued) Integrated data services: ARCS & ANDS (continued) Project management for eResearch software development projects (continued)