Programme 2008


eResearch Australasia 2008 was held 28 September - 3 October in Melbourne.

A * next to a presentation title means there is a refereed, full paper available for this presentation in the conference proceedings.

Sun 28 Sep: Welcome

18:00 - 20:00 Welcome reception
 

Mon 29 Sep: Conference day 1

08:15 - 08:45 Registration and coffee
08:45 - 10:15
08:45 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:20
09:25 - 10:15

Opening plenary
Welcome and opening matters
Opening address: Anne-Marie Lansdown, Australian Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
Featured speaker: Michael Fulford (University of Reading): From excavation to publication: the integration of developing digital technologies with a long-running archaeological project: the Silchester Roman Town Insula IX ‘Town Life’ Project

10:15 - 10:45 Morning tea
10:45 - 11:55 Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 Industry partners
10:45 - 11:05 Transforming the Study of Australian Literature through a Collaborative eResearch Environment
Anna Gerber and Kerry Kilner (UQ)
High Throughput Computing at Monash
David Abramson (Monash)
* Building CSIRO e-Research Capabilities
John Taylor (CSIRO)
How to Manage Petabytes of Data in an Environmentally Friendly way ie Less Power, Less Cooling, Less Cost
David Honey (SGI)
11:10- 11:30 An architecture for urban simulation enabled by e-Research
Mark Birkin (University of Leeds)
* Desktop Modelling Toolkit: Grid Computing and Conceptual Modelling for Structural Geology and Reactive Transport
Gordon German (CSIRO)
The Square Kilometre Array - a top-line eResearch challenge for Australia
Tim Cornwell (CSIRO)
Deploying the Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server
David Green (UQ)
11:35 - 11:55 ICTGuides: advancing computational methods in the digital humanities
Craig Bellamy (King's College London)
Using Mashup Frameworks to Create Bioinformatics Applications
James Hogan (QUT)
Developing a sustainable e-Research framework in New Zealand
George Slim (NZ Ministry of Research, Science & Technology)
Reducing Human Intervention in the Maintenance of Mass Storage Systems
Dave Fellinger (DataDirect
Networks)
12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:10 Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 Industry partners
13:00 - 13:20 Integrating systems to deliver digital heritage collections
Margaret Birtley (Collections Council)
ARCS Systems Services and the ARCS National Grid
Daniel Cox (ARCS) and Paul Coddington (eResearch SA)
Australian Access Federation and PKI
Viviani Paz (AusCERT)
Larrabee: A Many-Core Intel® Architecture for Visual Computing
Peter Kerney (Intel)
13:25 - 14:55 Australian Women’s Archives Project 2.0 - Next generation infrastructure for women's studies
Joanne Evans and Nikki Henningham (Melbourne)
DEISA - on the way towards a European HPC Ecosystem
Hermann Lederer and Stefan Heinzel (Max Planck Institute of Plasma Phsyics)
* Flexible Access Control, Federated Identity and Heterogeneous Metadata Supports for Repositories
Chi Nguyen (Macquarie University)
eResearch = Collaboration +
Communities + Communications
Peter Elford (Cisco)
13:50 - 14:10 Archiving Anthropological Research: The records of Diane Barwick (1938-1986)
Gavan McCarthy and Ann McCarthy (Melbourne)
QosCosGrid Project - a Computational Grid Implementation
Pamela Burrage (Institute for Molecular Bioscience)
What’s an IT Director to Do? About mainstreaming institutional IT support for Research
Nick Tate (UQ) and Neil Thelander (QUT)
Breaking the Sustained Performance Petaflop Barrier and Beyond
Tom Liebsch (IBM)
14:15 - 15:45

Plenary
Cloud Infrastructure Services Panel, chaired by Nick Tate, Director ITS and AusCERT, The University of Queensland
Featured panelists:
- Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President of External Research, Microsoft Research
- Peter Elford, Public Sector Solutions Architect, Cisco Systems
- Anne Fitzgerald, Professor of Law, Queensland University of Technology
- Kevin Mayo, Chief Technologist, Education and Research, Sun Microsystems ANZ
 

15:45 - 16:05 Afternoon tea
16:05 - 17:30 BoF 1
Daughter of OZCHRON: The Australian Geochronology Data Infrastructure Working Group
Keith Sircombe (Geoscience Australia)
BoF 2
eResearch in the Performing Arts: Mapping Creativity and Visualising Networks
Julie Holledge (Flinders) et al

BoF 3
Raising Awareness and Increasing the Uptake of eResearch
Gaby Bright (VeRSI)
 
17:30 - 19:30 Posters and live demonstrations event
         

Tue 30 Sep: Conference day 2

08:00 - 08:30 Registration and coffee
08:30 - 10:15
08:35 - 09:25
09:25 - 10:15
Plenary
Featured speaker: John Wilbanks (Creative Commons): Uncommon Knowledge and e-Research
Featured speaker: Kerstin Lehnert, (Columbia University): New Science Communities for Cyberinfrastructure - The Example of Geochemistry
10:15 - 10:45 Morning tea
10:45 - 11:55 Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 Industry partners
10:45 - 11:05 Patterns for e-Research infrastructure design in Auscope Grid
Ryan Fraser (AuScope)
Networks and the eResearch Agenda
Greg Wickham and Alex Reid (AARNet)
The Australian National Data Service: one small step for Australia, one potentially giant leap for research
Andrew Treloar (Monash)
Tackling the Worlds Biggest E-Research Challenges through
Collaboration
Chris Farrow (IBM)
11:10- 11:30 Seismographic Information Service – a collaborative project between GNS Science and Victoria University of Wellington
Paul Grimwood (GNS Science) et al
Federated identity on a pan-European scale
Klaas Wierenga (Cisco)
National Committee For Data In Science
Jane Hunter (UQ) and Kim Finney (Australian Antarctic Division)
Virtual Collaboration and Learning Grids with Wonderland
Kevin Mayo (Sun Microsystems)
 
11:35 - 11:55 An information model and transfer encoding for observations and sampling
Simon Cox (CSIRO)
Federated Identity Infrastructure for the Andalusian Universities: Deployment of a multi-technology federation
Victoriano Giralt (University of Malaga)
Towards an Australian Research Information Framework
Simon Porter (Melbourne)
BioGrid Australia – A Service-Oriented Approach for Clinical
Research
Jason Lohrey (Arcitecta) &
Steve Melnikoff (VeRSI)
12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

12:15 - 13:15 Lunchtime BoF 1
Digitising Written Sources and Resources
Elzbieta Majocha (UWA) and Mark Ellison (UWA)
Lunchtime BoF 2
Identity management
Patricia McMillan (UQ)
   
13:30 - 14:40 Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 Industry partners
13:30 - 13:50 The Health-e-Reef Project - Eco-Informatics on a Global Scale
Campbell Allen (UQ)
The ARCS Data Fabric
Stephen McMahon (ANU)
Intersect: the new peak eResearch organisation for NSW
Mike Briers (Intersect)
Many core parallel computing on NVIDIA's Tesla & Cuda platforms
Mark Harris, NVIDIA
13:55 - 14:15 * Distributed Gridded Data Delivery for Marine Research
Peter Turner (CSIRO) and Pauline Mak (TPAC)
The Research and Education Distributed Data Storage (REDDS) Project
Rodney McDuff (UQ)
The UK e-Social Science Research Programme: Achievements and Challenges
Mark Birkin (University of Leeds)
 
14:20 - 14:40 Benthic Classification Algorithm Test-bench
Greg Timms (CSIRO)
Data grid storage for digital libraries and archives based on iRODS
Mark Hedges (King's College London) and John Byron (Australian Academy of the Humanities)
Community Engagement and Support in the use of e-infrastructure: the JISC and VeRSI experience
Ann Borda (VeRSI)
 
14:40 - 15:00 Afternoon tea
15:00 - 17:00 Plenary
AeRIC eResearch Forum, chaired by Tom Cochrane, Chair Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council and assisted by Rhys Francis, Executive Director Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council
   
18:30 - 21:30 Conference dinner
         

Wed 1 Oct: Conference day 3

08:30 - 09:00 Registration and coffee

09:00 - 10:15
09:05 - 09:15
09:15 - 09:35
09:35 - 10:25

Plenary
Featured speaker: Gavin Jennings, Victorian Minister for Innovation
Featured speaker: Justin Zobel (The University of Melbourne): The Victorian Life Science Computation Initiative
Featured speaker: Graham Cameron (European Molecular Biology Laboratory): Bioinformatics: “E” is for “Essential” in Biomolecular eResearch
10:25 - 10:45 Morning tea
10:45 - 11:55 Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3
10:45 - 11:05 BioGrid Australia – Life science e-research outcomes
Marienne Hibbert (VPAC/Biogrid)
ARCS Collaboration Tools
Ashley Wright (ARCS)
The increasing demand for collaborative research activity and infrastructure in Australian higher education institutions: Implications for workforce planning
Bridget Soulsby (University of Melbourne)
11:10- 11:30 * Mining Medical Data: Bridging the Knowledge Divide
Sam Schmidt (Deakin University)
Virtuosity: Techniques, Procedures and Skills for Effective Virtual Communications
Alan Holmes (La Trobe University)
A University Support Model for eResearch
Carolyn Young and Joseph Young (QUT)
11:35 - 11:55 Australia's Virtual Herbarium - developing a federated database of plant specimen data
Paul Coddington (eResearch SA)
Virtual Beamline eResearch Environment at the Australian Synchrotron
Chris Myers (VeRSI)
Overcoming barriers to the creation and reuse of Learning Resources for eResearch
Kenny Baird and Farzana Latif (UK National Centre for eSocial Science)
12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:40 Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3
13:30 - 13:50 Computational and Data Grids for Protein Crystallography
Ashley Buckle (Monash)
Visualising Climate Change in an Immersive Virtual Environment
Christian Stock (University of Melbourne)
A Generic Schema-Driven Metadata Editor for the eResearch Community
Ron Chernich (UQ)
13:55 - 14:15 BioMANTA - A Scalable Semantic Web Approach to Reasoning across Large-scale Distributed Biomolecular Pathway Datasets
Andrew Newman (UQ)
* Visualization for eResearch: Past, Present and Future
Stuart Charters (Lincoln University NZ)
A summary of the outputs of the ARCHER Project
David Groenewegen (Monash University)
14:20 - 14:40 * MammoSapiens: eResearch of the lactation program.Building online facilities for collaborative molecular and evolutionary analysis of lactation and other biological systems from gene sequences and gene expression data
Christophe Lefevre (Deakin University)
eResearch/eScience - opportunites for applied computing
Lee Dirks (Microsoft)

Deployment strategies for joining the AAF Shibboleth Federation
James Dalziel (Macquarie University)

14:40 - 15:00 Afternoon tea
15:00 - 16:20
15:05 - 15:55
15:55 - 16:20
Closing plenary
Featured speaker: Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins University): Lessons from the Institute for Data Intensive Science and Engineering
Awards and closing matters
       

Thu 2 Oct: Workshop day 1

08:30 - 09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00 - 12:30 Workshop 1
SEE Grid IV has been postponed.  Apologies for any inconvenience.
Workshop 2
WASP: Australian Scientific GPU/Steam Computing
Workshop 4
ARCS Collaboration Tools and Support
Workshop 5
ANDS: Seeding the Australian Data Commons
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 17:00 Meeting
Driving eResearch across the Tasman (13:30 - 15:30)
Workshop 2
WASP: Austalian Scientific GPU/Stream Computing
Workshop 6
The ARCS Data Fabric
Workshop 7
ANDS: Developing eResearch Capabilities
 

Fri 3 Oct: Workshop day 2

08:30 - 09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00 - 12:30 Workshop 8
Geoinformatics for Geochemistry
Workshop 9
eResearch in the Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Workshop 10
Leveraging Web 2.0 Technology for eResearch
Workshop 11
Using the ARCS National Grid
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 17:00 Workshop 8
Geoinformatics for Geochemistry
Workshop 9
eResearch in the Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Workshop 12
SimpleSAMLphp
Workshop 13
NCRIS NCI and the National Facility