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2011 Microsoft Research eScience in Action Workshop

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Time	Event
8:00–8:30	Registration
	IEEE Conference Details	Microsoft eScience Workshop Sessions
9:00–10:30	IEEE workshops	Keynote Advancing Environmental Understanding; the Role of eScience \| video Dan Fay, Microsoft Research Location: The Pillar Hall, Norra Latin, Drottningatan 71B, 11136 Stockholm, Sweden
10:30–11:00	Coffee break	Coffee break
11:00–12:30		Breakout Sessions
	IEEE workshops	Citizen Science on Windows Phone 7 Platform \| video Location: Room 351, Norra Latin Chair: Yan Xu, Microsoft Research Citizen Science Using Windows Phone 7—Yong Liu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Listen-n-Feel: Participatory Emotion Detection Using Windows Phone 7—Na Yang, Rochester University	Scientific Programming for Biologists (and Everyone Else) \| video Location: Room 353, Norra Latin An Open Source Library for Bioinformatics—Simon Mercer, Microsoft Research Programming with Massive Data Sources Made Simple, Fast, and Error-Free—Don Syme, Microsoft Research
12:30–13:30	Lunch	Lunch
13:30–15:00		Breakout Sessions
	IEEE workshops	Community Capability Model for Data-Intensive Science Location: Room 351, Norra Latin Chair: Alex Wade, Microsoft Research Community Capability Model for Data Intensive Science Overview—Kenji Takeda, Microsoft Research Community Capability Model (panel session)—Alex Wade, Microsoft Research	VENUS-C: eScience in the Cloud \| video Location: Room 353, Norra Latin Cloud Computing for Research—a European Perspective—Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research VENUS-C and the Generic Worker Execution Environment—Götz Brasche, European Microsoft Innovation Center Data Management in Venus-C—Ilja Livenson, Kungliga Tekniska Hoegeskolan
15:00–15:30	Coffee break	Coffee break
15:30–17:00		Breakout Sessions
	IEEE workshops	Developing Communication Maturity Models for Data-Intensive Science \| video Location: Room 351, Norra Latin Chair: Lee Dirks, Microsoft Research Community Capability Model Deep Dive Interactive Discussion Session—Alex Wade Summary and Next Steps for Community Capability Model—Kenji Takeda, Microsoft Research	Cloud Computing: Real-World Experiences \| video *Location:* Room 353, Norra Latin Drug Design Experiments in the Cloud—Simon Woodman, Newcastle University Green Prefab, Civil Engineering in Cloud Computing—Furio Barzon, Collaboratorio Panel Session – Supporting Scientific Users in the Cloud Chair: Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research Götz Brasche, European Microsoft Innovation Center Ignacio Blanquer, Universitat Politècnica de València Andrea Manieri, Ingegneria Informatica SpA
17:00–18:00	Travel break
18:00–22:00	Microsoft Research Banquet Location: Clarion Hotel Sign, Östra Järnvägsgatan 35, Stockholm
	Presentation of Jim Gray Award
	Keynote Knowledge Ecosystems: Data-Intensive Science is More Than Speeds and Feeds \| video Mark Abbott, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Time	Event
8:00–17:00	Registration
9:00–9:30	Opening of IEEE International eScience Conference
9:30–10:30	IEEE e-Science Conference Keynote 1
	IEEE Conference Details	Microsoft eScience Workshop Sessions
10:30–11:00	Coffee break	Coffee break
11:00–12:30		Breakout Sessions
	IEEE paper sessions and workshops	Digital Humanities 1 \| video Location: Room 351, Norra Latin Chair: Donald Brinkman, Microsoft Research Big Archaeology: Creation, Integration, Analysis, and Dissemination of Archaeological Data—Graeme Earl, University of Southampton The Archive Without Walls—Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard University	Semantics in Action with Data Enrichment Location: Room 353, Norra Latin Chair: Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research Machines are Users Too: Towards Computational Research Objects—David De Roure, University of Oxford Publishing Open Government (Linked) Data in Brazil—Karin Breitman, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro F# 3.0 Type Providers – How a Simple Change to Programming Languages Can Open the Floodgates to the Semantic Web—Don Syme, Microsoft Research
12:30–13:30	Lunch	Lunch
13:30–15:00		Breakout Sessions
	IEEE paper sessions and workshops	Digital Humanities 2 \| video Location: Room 351, Norra Latin Chair: Donald Brinkman, Microsoft Research TextGrid – An Architecture to Store, Access and Manage Diverse Humanities Data—Andreas Witt, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Zentrale Forschung Large-Scale Music Analysis in the Key of E-Science—Stephen Downie, University of Illinois – Urbana, Champaign	Semantics in Action via Services and Policies \| video Location: Room 353, Norra Latin Chair: Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research Supporting the Virtual Physiological Human with Semantics and Services—Carlos Pedrinaci, Open University Provenance in the Semantic Web—Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau Making the Semantic Web Easier to Use for eScience Applications—Tim Finin, University of Maryland
15:00–15:30	Coffee break	Coffee break
15:30–17:00		Software for Science \| video Location: Room 351, Norra Latin Chair: Yan Xu, Microsoft Research European Union Support for e-Science Through e-Infrastructures—Kirsti Ala-Mutka, European Commission Predicting Where on Earth Life Is and Will Be – SDM 2.0—Greg Mclnerny, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Are We Losing Science Within Software? (panel session)—Kenji Takeda, Microsoft Research; Jeremy Frey, University of Southampton; Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University
18:00–21:00	Dinner at City Hall

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Time	Event
8:00–9:00	Registration
9:00–10:00	IEEE e-Science Conference Keynote 2
10:00–10:30	Coffee break
	IEEE Conference Details	Microsoft eScience Workshop Sessions
10:30–12:00		Breakout Sessions
	IEEE paper sessions and workshops	Open Data for Open Science – An Environmental Informatics Workshop (part 1) \| video Location: Room 351, Norra Latin Chair: Yan Xu, Microsoft Research Open Data for Open Science –Environmental Informatics at Microsoft—Yan Xu, Microsoft Research PivotViewer: a Living Infographic for Your Data—Bryan Kraus, Microsoft Data Integration in Environmental Observatory Networks—Ilya Zaslavsky, University of California, San Diego Visual Analytics Challenges in Environmental Informatics: The Case of Paleoclimatology—Roberto Therón, University of Salamanca (Spain)	Is NUI "Natural" for Scientists? Location: Room 353, Norra Latin Chairs: Kenji Takeda and Stewart Tansley, Microsoft Research Speakers: Mark Abbott, Oregon State University; Hans-Christian Jetter, Univeristy of Konstanz; Madhusudhanan Srinivasan, KAUST; Anne Trefethen, University of Oxford
12:00–13:00	Lunch	Lunch
13:00–14:30		Breakout Sessions
	IEEE paper sessions and workshops	Open Data for Open Science – An Environmental Informatics Workshop (part 2) \| video Location: Room 351, Norra Latin Chair: Yan Xu, Microsoft Research Using the OData protocol in eScience—Chris Robinson, Microsoft On the Processing of Sensing Data in eScience—Antônio Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais Advancing Digital Urban Informatics for Innovative Environmental and Water Resources Management—Yong Liu, University of Illinois – Urbana, Champaign
14:30–15:00	Coffee break	Coffee break
15:00–16:00	IEEE workshops
16:15–17:15	IEEE e-Science Conference Keynote 3
18:30–22:00	Gala dinner at Stockholm venue

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Visit the IEEE International Conference on e-Science website for information about Thursday’s program.

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