http://essenceofescience.se/materials-2012/

At this meeting, we will discuss the challenges of multiscale modelling, as well as a number of interesting examples of modern materials and molecular simulations. We will use the word “materials” in a broad sense, i.e. also including molecules and molten materials (liquids). Colleagues from our national sister program SeRC, as well as all other e-science actors or interested colleagues are welcome to attend the meeting. Senior researchers, postdocs and PhD students are all equally welcome.
Scientific contributions: Four external speakers will give plenary lectures on Day 1. Posters will be accompanied by short oral poster presentations – you are most welcome to sign up to present a poster! See further info on the web. There will also be invited and contributed 15-minute oral presentations (+ discussion ).  See further info on the web.
Registration: The meeting and the dinner and lunch will be free of charge to registered participants. Participants from outside Uppsala who need hotel accommodation will receive it free of charge. Sign up for the meeting by sending an e-mail to Dr. Pavlin Mitev (pmitev@kemi.uu.se) with some information as described on the web http://essenceofescience.se/materials-2012/. Do this before 25 May!  If you need accommodation – tell us as soon as possible and preferably before 16 May!

Download the flyer in .pdf format.

High Performance Computing Center North cordially invites you to participate in the inauguration of Abisko, the new HPC2N supercomputer system. The morning program offers a tutorial and the afternoon program includes presentations by scientists using Abisko, state-of-the-art technical and R&D overviews and the formal inauguration of Abisko.

The procurement of Abisko was made possible through a grant from the Swedish National Metacenter VR/SNIC and the support of Umeå University.

Dead-line for registration: May 21 at 12.00.
There is no conference fee but remember that the number of seats for all events are limited, so register as soon as possible.

Most welcome!
Bo Kågström, HPC2N Director
Marianne Sommarin, Chairperson of the HPC2N Board

Links to program and registration form:
https://www.hpc2n.umu.se/abisko/inauguration
https://www.hpc2n.umu.se/abisko/inauguration/form

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Time:  15.15  Thursday 26 April 2012
Room: Ångström 2002
Contents: Two speakers 2 x (~18 + 5) minutes

1.  Hans Karlsson: “Dynamics in a photo-excited molecule”
2.  Lynn Kamerlin: “Computational protein evolution”
3.  Short discussion about news & matters of interest.

Come at 15 if you want fika/refreshments before the talks.
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WELCOME!
/kersti (kersti@kemi.uu.se; phone 471 3767)

Deadline: April 30, 2012
Contact: eSSENCE coordinator Ingela Nyström <ingela.nystrom@it.uu.se>
Attachment: eSSENCE-LoI-2012.pdf

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Programme highlights
The CERN School of Computing 2011 is organised around 3 thematic themes, each theme comprising lectures and exercises.

• Do you know how to bridge Grids and Clouds using virtualization technology?
• Is it possible to simplify LHC physics analysis using virtual machine?
• How can reliable storage services be built from unreliable hardware?
• Why are tapes still used in high energy physics data storage?
• How can I write code for tomorrow’s hardware, today?
• Do you want to see your software with attacker’s eyes?
• Can you hack your own code?
• Do you know what do ‘code injection’ and ‘integer overflow’ have in common?
• What’s so special about High Energy Physic’s data format?
• What are the key statistical methods used in physics data analysis?

All the answers at CSC2012

Data Technologies
The Data theme presents the state of the art technologies and options for data storing and management in specially demanding environment. It includes security and authentication aspects relevant to data management. The theme is equally divided between lectures and practical exercise sessions.

Base Technologies
The Base Technologies theme addresses a selection of the most relevant underlying technologies: software development security, advanced networking, computer architecture, performance tuning as well as virtualisation / cloud computing. It also offers a range of practical exercises.

Physics Computing
The Physics Computing theme focuses on informatics topics specific to HEP. After setting-the-scene lectures, it addresses Software Engineering Techniques, ROOT and Data Analysis. The lecturers come from Croatia, Norway, the USA and CERN to teach theory and organize practical work.

Information

Applications

Researchers in all disciplines are increasingly adopting digital tools, techniques and practices, often in communities and projects that span disciplines, laboratories, organizations, and national boundaries. The eScience 2012 conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest applications research and product/tool developments and to highlight related activities from around the world. Also, we are now entering the second decade of eScience and the 2012 conference gives an opportunity to take stock of what has been achieved so far and look forward to the challenges and opportunities the next decade will bring.

A special emphasis of the 2012 conference is on advances in the application of technology in a particular discipline. Accordingly, significant advances in applications science and technology will be considered as important as the development of new technologies
themselves. Further, we welcome contributions in educational activities under any of these disciplines.

As a result, the conference will be structured around two e-Science tracks:

• eScience Algorithms and Applications
• eScience application areas, including:
• Physical sciences
• Biomedical sciences
• Social sciences and humanities
• Data-oriented approaches and applications
• Compute-oriented approaches and applications
• Extreme scale approaches and applications
• Cyberinfrastructure to support eScience
• Novel hardware
• Novel uses of production infrastructure
• Software and services
• Tools

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of the Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)journal.

SUBMISSION PROCESS
Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. (Up to 2 additional pages may be purchased for US$150/page)

Templates are available
fromhttp://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2012

(Note that paper submitters also must submit an abstract in advance of the paper deadline. This should be done through the same site where papers are submitted.)

It is a requirement that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission (required): 4 July 2012
Paper submission: 11 July 2012
Paper author notification: 22 August 2012
Camera-ready papers due: 10 September 2012
Conference: 8-12 October 2012

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

General Chair

• Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Program Co-Chairs

• Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Heinz Stockinger, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland

Program Vice Co-Chairs
eScience Algorithms and Applications Track

• David Abramson, Monash University, Australia
• Gabrielle Allen, Louisiana State University, USA
• Cyberinfrastructure to support eScience Track
• Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center / CSIC, Spain
• Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA

Early Results and Works-in-Progress Posters Chair
Roger Barga, Microsoft, USA

Workshops Chair
Ruth Pordes, FNAL, USA

Sponsorship Chair
Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Conference Manager and Finance Chair
Julie Wulf-Knoerzer, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Publicity Chairs

• Kento Aida, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• David Wallom, Oxford e-Research Centre, UK

Local Organizing Committee

• Ninfa Mayorga, University of Chicago, USA
• Evelyn Rayburn, University of Chicago, USA
• Lynn Valentini, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Program Committee
eScience Algorithms and Applications Track

• Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University, USA
• Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK
• David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Jon Blower, University of Reading, UK
• Paul Bonnington, Monash University, Australia
• Simon Cox, University of Southampton, UK
• David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre, UK
• George Djorgovski, California Institute of Technology, USA
• Anshu Dubey, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Yuri Estrin, Monash University, Australia
• Dan Fay, Microsoft, USA
• Jeremy Frey, University of Southampton, UK
• Wolfgang Gentzsch, HPC Consultant, Germany
• Lutz Gross, The University of Queensland, Austrialia
• Sverker Holmgren, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Bill Howe, University of Washington, USA
• Marina Jirotka, University of Oxford, UK
• Timoleon Kipouros, University of Cambridge, UK
• Kerstin Kleese van Dam, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
• Arun S. Konagurthu, Monash University, Australia
• Peter Kunszt, SystemsX.ch, Switzerland
• Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Australia
• Sergio Maffioletti, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Amitava Majumdar, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California at San Diego, USA
• Rui Mao, Shenzhen University, China
• Madhav V. Marathe, Virginia Tech, USA
• Maryann Martone, University of California at San Diego, USA
• Louis Moresi, Monash University, Australia
• Riccardo Murri, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Silvia D. Olabarriaga, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, Universidad Jaume I, Spain
• Abani Patra, University at Buffalo, USA
• Rob Pennington, NSF, USA
• Andrew Perry, Monash University, Australia
• Beth Plale, Indiana University, USA
• Michael Resch, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Adrian Sandu, Virginia Tech, USA
• Mark Savill, Cranfield University, UK
• Erik Schnetter, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
• Edward Seidel, Louisiana State University, USA
• Suzanne M. Shontz, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
• David Skinner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
• Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA
• Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Domenico Talia, ICAR-CNR & University of Calabria, Italy
• Jian Tao, Louisiana State University, USA
• David Wallom, Oxford e-Research Centre, UK
• Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Michael Wilde, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago, USA
• Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California at San Diego, USA
• Wu Zhang, Shanghai University, China
• Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Cyberinfrastructure to support eScience Track

• Deb Agarwal, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
• Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California at San Diego, USA
• Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
• Roger Barga, Microsoft, USA
• Martin Berzins, University of Utah, USA
• John Brooke, University of Manchester, UK
• Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Gilles Fedak, INRIA, France
• José A. B. Fortes, University of Florida, USA
• Yolanda Gil, ISI/USC, USA
• Madhusudhan Govindaraju, SUNY Binghamton, USA
• Thomas Hacker, Purdue University, USA
• Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand
• Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA
• Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
• Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
• Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Isao Kojima, AIST, Japan
• Tevfik Kosar, University at Buffalo, USA
• Dieter Kranzlmueller, LMU & LRZ Munich, Germany
• Erwin Laure, KTH, Sweden
• Jysoo Lee, KISTI, Korea
• Li Xiaoming, Peking University, China
• Bertram Ludäscher, University of California, Davis, USA
• Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University, USA
• Tanu Malik, University of Chicago, USA
• Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• Shirley Moore, University of Kentucky, USA
• Steven Newhouse, EGI, Netherlands
• Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University, USA
• Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
• Ron Perrott, University of Oxford, UK
• Depei Qian, Beihang University, China
• Judy Qui, Indiana University, USA
• Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
• Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
• Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil
• Marc Snir, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Yoshio Tanaka, AIST, Japan
• Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA
• Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, Australia
• Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA
• Paul Watson, Newcastle University, UK
• Jun Zhao, University of Oxford, UK

The 8th IEEE eScience conference (e-Science 2012), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), will be held in Chicago Illinois from 8-12th October 2012. The eScience 2011 conference is designed to bring
together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies.

Multiple e-Science 2012 Workshops will be held on Monday and Tuesday, 8th and 9th October, co-located with the main conference.

Workshops are an important part of the conference in providing opportunity for researchers to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to have discussion of particular topics of interest to the community. We cordially invite you to submit workshop proposals on any eScience related topic to the Workshop Chair.

To help those interested know their purpose and scope, workshop proposals should include:

• A description of the workshop, its focus, goals, and outcome
• A draft call for papers
• Names and affiliations of the organizers and tentative composition of the committees
• Expected numbers of submissions and accepted papers
• Prior history of this workshop, if any. Please include: number of submissions, number of accepted papers, and attendee count.

Workshop organizers are responsible for establishing a program committee, collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in due time, ensuring a transparent and fair selection process, organizing selected papers into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals will be selected that show clear focus and objectives in areas of emerging or developing interest guaranteed to generate significant interest in the community.

Once accepted, the workshop should establish its own paper submission system. For each paper selected for publication, an author must be registered for eScience 2012. Each paper must be presented in person by at least one of the authors. It is expected that the proceedings of the eScience 2012 workshops will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Workshop proposals should be emailed to escience2012-workshops@fnal.gov

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop submissions due: 23rd January 2012
Notification of workshop acceptance: 6th February 2012

While it is up to the workshop organizers to work with the authors of any papers to be published from the workshop presenters, it should be noted that information about these will be needed by 27th August 2012 and final camera ready papers are needed by 17th
September 2012.

Workshops: 8-9 October 2012

Inauguration of UPPMAX new compute cluster “Tintin”

Thursday, March 29 15.00-17.00
Häggsalen Ångströmlaboratoriet

• 15.00 – 15.05 Welcome David van der Spoel, Chairman, UPPMAX
• 15.05 – 15.20 UPPMAX and the compute cluster “Tintin” Hans Karlsson, Director, UPPMAX
• 15.20 – 15.45 Inauguration User presentations
• 15.45 – 16.15 Non-linear and inertia-like effects in magnetic switching processes Anders Bergman, Department of Physics and Astronomy
• 16.15 – 16.45 DOG: How comparative genetics informs human disease Jennifer Meadows, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology

will take place today 21 March. Details below.

Today’s presentations deal with materials – but very different ones – and
very different methods are used/developed.

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Time:  16.15  Wednesday 21 March 2012
Room: Ångström 2002
Contents: Two speakers 2 x (~15 + 5) minutes + a short e-science discussion

1.  Wim Briels: “Newton, Langevin, Brown and Soft Matter – Memory matter(s)”

2.  Jolla Kullgren: “Chemically active metal oxides – Oxygen storage at
the nanoscale”

3.  Short discussion: “Is it worth the effort to spend time on
method and model development?”

Refreshments will be served after the seminar, and you are welcome to
stay on and mingle.
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WELCOME!
/kersti (kersti@mkem.uu.se; phone 471 3767)

Scientific programme

This year the conference is dedicated to issues related to enabling e-Science
infrastructures using ARC. Possible topics include:

• International infrastructures using ARC
• National infrastructures using ARC
• Application-specific and collaboration environments enabled by ARC
• User-friendly or application-specific client tools based on ARC libraries
• Adaptation of application environments for use with ARC-based infrastructures
• Comparison of different infrastructures: features, functionalities, performance
• Strategic directions of e-Science infrastructures development

Dates:
from 30 May 2012 09:00
to 01 June 2012 18:00

Location:
Uppsala, Sweden
Ångströmlaboratoriet
Lägerhyddsvägen 1

Chairs: Prof. Ould-Saada, Farid

!!! Registration is mandatory !!!

Registration opening day: 07 March 2012
Registration deadline: 29 May 2012