eResearch New Zealand

Wednesday 4th - Friday 6th July
Victoria University of Wellington

The 3rd New Zealand eResearch Symposium will be held at Victoria University of Wellington, on Wednesday 4th - Friday 6th July, 2012. It is New Zealand's event to celebrate and strengthen the use of technology within research of all disciplines. Registrations are now open!

Keynotes

We are pleased to confirm the following keynote speakers at NZ eResearch Symposium 2012:

Presentations and Programme

As our Symposium's content becomes available from our confirmed contributors, details will appear on the  Presentations page.
Recordings, where available, will be added once the Symposium has ended.

We hope to have a draft programme available soon.

Registration

Early Bird registrations are now open for NZ eResearch Symposium 2012.

Early bird registration closes on Friday 8 June 2012.

See the Registration page for full details

Accommodation

Special accommodation rates are available for conference participants at selected hotels.

You can book this accommodation when registering for the conference.

The special rates are only available through the online registration system and cannot be guaranteed after 3 June 2012.

See the Venue and Accommodation page for full details

Call for Participation

The Call for Participation has now closed

We now welcome submission of descriptions for presentations, panels, posters, BoFs, workshops and demonstrations. Submissions may address any aspect of eResearch, including the infrastructure, platforms, middleware, services; and use-cases from the sciences, humanities, engineering, social sciences and medical fields.

See the Call for Participation page for details

The deadline for submissions is April 13 2012

Sponsorship and Product Demonstration

Now established in its third year, the NZ eResearch Symposium, is offering opportunities for interested parties to participate, either as a direct sponsor of the Symposium alongside the national level bodies or via demonstration booths.

For details of the sponsorship and demonstration opportunites offered, see the Sponsorship page.

New Zealand eResearch Symposium

eResearch encompasses all of the research computing that supports a research community. It crosses research disciplines, from the humanities and social sciences, physical and biological sciences, to math and engineering. It includes the computing and software platforms that connect equipment, data, and other computing resources with people, along with collections management, platforms to run experiments, and advanced collaboration tools. eResearch communities thrive on deep engagement with researchers, and aim to support the formation and operation of effective digitally-supported research communities.

Our NZ eResearch Symposium is a broad forum for NZ's research sector and nascent eResearch community. This is an opportunity to meet leaders of eResearch initiatives within NZ and internationally, and to hear about emerging practice, and to share experiences.

If you have suggestions or questions about the programme please contact the Programme Chair.

If you would like more information on any aspect of this conference, please contact the Conference Organiser:

Organisers

General Chair and Sponsorship: Nick Jones, University of Auckland, NZ eScience Infrastructure
Host Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
Programme Chair: John Hine, Victoria University of Wellington

Closing date for project proposals: 31 August

Researchers, do you need IT support for your research collaborations?

Data sharing, shared databases, analysis services, collaboration...

Summer of eResearch (SoeR) provides scholarships and mentoring to software engineering students to work with nationally connected research communities throughout New Zealand on their eResearch needs, focused on providing infrastructure (not research codes).

Some examples of relevant projects could include:

• accessing and analysing shared datasets and databases that are too large to host on your local desktop, and where there are multiple users from across your national research community who are involved in various aspects of the data analysis
• building a simple graphical user interface so that your less computing skilled research colleagues can carry out analyses that you are repeatedly doing for them
• building a web portal to share nationally significant research datasets, and providing basic data access protocols to allow others to build on top of this data

Look at what we did in Summer of eResearch 2010!