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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
Mission and Activities
Malcolm Atkinson & Anna KenwaySAB Directors’ Report
11 May 2009
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)
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
Intertwingling
Jim Austin, University of York (chair)Jeremy Frey, University of SouthamptonTom Rodden, Nottingham UniversitySarah Fulford, EPSRC infrastructure programme
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)
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
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
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
Cycles of Progress
researchchallengeresearchchallenge
CSinnovation
CSinnovation
technologyinnovationtechnologyinnovation
betterresearch
betterresearch
newchallenges
newchallenges
Products of Progress
researchchallengeresearchchallenge
CSinnovation
CSinnovation
technologyinnovationtechnologyinnovation
betterresearch
betterresearch
newchallenges
newchallenges
researchbreakthroughs
new CSresults
newcapabilities
newopportunities
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
Context for eSI
computationalservices &
consultancyadvancedtechnology
development
pioneeringprojects
e-Scienceresearch
Thee-ScienceInstitute
eSI Activities
• Themes• Responsive events• Visitors• Training and Summer schools• Dissemination
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
Your Homework
• For today’s discussion at 15:15• Think about how eSI should evolve– For 2011 to 2015
• I need your advice