NZ eResearch Symposium 2011 Programme

PRE SYMPOSIUM Networking: Wednesday 29 June 7:30 - 9:30pm
Venue: Staff Club, University of Otago
Join us for a pre-symposium informal gathering at the historic Staff Club on campus.

Symposium Day 1: Thursday 30 June
Venue: Castle Theatre Complex, University of Otago

8.00am – 9.00am	Registration Desk Opens
9.00am – 9.05am	Welcome
9.05am – 10.30am	Session 1 Desi Ramoo, KAREN: Supporting the eResearch Community Nathan Gardiner and Blair Willems, AVCC: Accessing KAREN Video Conferencing Services for academics and researchers across New Zealand Sat Mandri, Tuakiri, New Zealand Access Federation: Tuakiri Pilot Federation Service Nick Jones, NeSI: NZ eScience Infrastructure
10.30am – 11.00am	Morning Tea
11.00am – 12.30pm	Session 2 Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington: Using Social Networks for Science Mark Gahegan, Centre for eResearch University of Auckland: Everything is related to everything else: visualising the actors, resources, domain knowledge and usage patterns in an eResearch community Paul Millar and Christopher Thomson, University of Canterbury: Humanities Computing at the University of Canterbury Sydney Shep, Victoria University: eHumanities: local e-nitiatives and international developments
12.30pm – 1.15pm	Lunch
1.15pm – 2.45pm	Workshops (a selection of these will be offered each day, depending on demand) Stuart Charters and Markus Binsteiner, BeSTGRID: BeSTGRID clinics Aaron Hicks, Landcare Research: Scripted batch job submission with Grisu Mik Black, University of Otago: BeSTGRID basics
2.45pm – 3.30pm	Keynote: Professor David Abramson, Monash University, Australia *e-Research: Are we there yet?*
3.30pm – 4.00pm	Afternoon tea
4.00pm – 5.00pm	Keynote: Professor Ian Foster, Computation Institute, a joint institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
6.15pm – late	Conference Dinner: Thursday 30 June 2011 6:15 pm - late Venue: Larnach Castle Meet at the registration desk, Castle Theatre Complex at 6:15 pm and travel by bus to the award winning Victorian castle. Larnach Castle was built from 1871, by William Larnach for his beloved wife Eliza. Be entranced by the history as you journey to this exquisite setting for an evening to remember; a true Dunedin experience. The evening includes a superb meal, refreshments, and entertainment, all in front of an open fire. The bus will return you to the University of Otago. One ticket to the conference dinner is included in the full conference registration. Please note, student registration does not include a ticket to the conference dinner however students may purchase a ticket to attend at $80.00 each. Additional conference dinner tickets are available for purchase at $80.00 each for friends, family or colleagues.

Symposium Day 2: Friday 1 July

Venue: Castle Theatre Complex, University of Otago

8.30am – 9.00am	Registration Desk Opens
9.00am – 10.45am	Session 3 Christopher Bayliss, University of Glasgow: Auditing Credential Usage in Grid Environments Nicolás Erdödy and Jim Cheetham, Open Parallel Ltd: An introduction to the X10 language and its applications Marcus Davy and Roy Storey, Plant and Food Research: Automated report generation in a Web 2.0 context David Eyers , University of Otago: Optimising power consumption in large-scale eResearch infrastructure Peter Hicks, Curtin University of Technology: Two models for eResearch practice and services Anthony Stell, University of Melbourne: A distributed clinical data platform to support physiological trials and studies
10.45am – 11.15am	Morning Tea
11.15am – 12.00pm	Keynote: Professor Ann Zimmerman, University of Michigan *What's in it for me? The social science of making eResearch work*
12.00pm – 1.00pm	Lunch
1.00pm – 2.15pm	Session 4 Robert Gibb, Landcare Research: Cassandra, HEALPix and other geo-heresies explored David Eyers and Russell Butson, University of Otago: Managing sensitive “Big Data” Lev Lafayette, VPAC: Issues and Solutions in Teaching Researchers The Value and Use of High Performance Computing Fabiana Kubke, University of Auckland: Collaborative platforms for streamlining scientific workflows
2.15pm – 3.45pm	Workshops (a selection of these will be offered each day, depending on demand) Stuart Charters and Markus Binsteiner, BeSTGRID: BeSTGRID clinics Tony Dale, BlueFern: BlueFern HPC workshop Julian Carver, Seradigm Limited: Framework for eResearch Adoption Sat Mandri, Daniela Dunn and Aaron Hicks, Tuakiri, New Zealand Access Federation: Tuakiri Pilot Federation Service
3.45pm – 4.15pm	Afternoon tea
4.15pm – 5.00pm	Panel Discussion: "eResearch: Happening now on a campus near you" Chair: Mik Black, University of Otago Panel: Howard Amos, University of Otago Julian Carver, Framework for eResearch Adoption Nick Jones, NZ eScience Infrasture Phillip Lindsay, NZ Genomics Ltd Glenn Moloney, NeCTAR, University of Melbourne Sydney Shep, Australiasian Digital Humanities Association
5.00pm – 5.30pm	Symposium Close