Microsoft Research eScience Workshop 2009
Friday, October 16 – Saturday, October 17, 2009
Click the linked titles in the following table to view the presentation videos.
| Friday, October 16, 2009 | ||||
| 8:00 | Breakfast | |||
| 9:00-11:00 |
KEYNOTE SPEECH Chair: Daron Green | |||
| 11:00-11:30 | Break | |||
| PARALLEL TRACK SESSIONS | ||||
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FM1 |
FM2 |
FM3 |
FM4 | |
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Genomics |
eResearch Services & Applications |
eScience Topics |
Advances in Software Support | |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Computational Methods for Large-Scale DNA Data Analysis Xiaohong Qiu, Jaliya Ekanayake, Geoffrey C. Fox, Thilina Gunarathne, Scott Beason - Indiana University |
Generating Intelligent Multimedia Presentations from Semantic Mashups Using OAI-ORE and SMIL Jane Hunter, Anna Gerber - The University of Queensland
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Observing Round-the-Clock Expulsion of Matter from a Black Hole: Global Jet Watch Katherine Blundell - Oxford University |
Software Support for Hybrid Computing Shujia Zhou - University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Tools for Scalable Genome Haplotying in the Windows Azure Cloud Girish Subramanian - Indiana University Yogesh Simmhan - Microsoft Research |
Comment by Sketch: A Picture Says a Million Words |
Towards Complete Functional and Structural Imaging of Cortical Circuits R. Clay Reid, Davi Bock, Wei-Chung Reid - Harvard Medical School |
Scaling Simulations Through Declarative Processing
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| 12:30- 2:00 |
Lunch and Poster Session | |||
| PARALLEL TRACK SESSIONS | ||||
| FA1 |
FA2 |
FA3 |
FA4 | |
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Tools for Biology |
Systems for Author & Document Analysis |
Earth & Environment |
Provenance Management for Scientific Data | |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Enhancing BLAST Comprehension with SilverMap |
Scalable Solution for a Comprehensive Appraisal of Contemporary Documents
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Listening to Nature: Acoustic Monitoring of the Environment Michael Towsey, Birgit Planitz, Paul Roe, Jiro Sumitomo, Ian Williamson, Jason Wimmer, Jinglan Zhang - Queensland University of Technology |
Simple Provenance in Scientific Databases Nolan Li, Alexander Szalay - Johns Hopkins University |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Web Service Extension of Computational Biology Application Suite |
Author Identity and Social Networking at arXiv Thorsten Schwander - Los Alamos National Laboratory |
3D Geographical Environments and Geospatial Data Exploration Using Flight Simulators and Geodatabases Claudio Delrieux - Universidada Nacional del Sur, Argentina
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Provenir Ontology: Towards a Framework for eScience Provenance Management |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break | |||
| PARALLEL TRACK SESSIONS | ||||
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FA5 |
FA6 |
FA7 |
FA8 | |
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eScience Research at Microsoft |
Collaboration |
Semantic Repositories and Modeling |
Data Intensive Computing | |
| 3:15-3:45 | The Vedea Visualization Language Martin Calsyn - Microsoft Research |
Generalized eScience Collaboration Through SharePoint Catharine Van Ingen - Microsoft Research Deb Agarwal - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Facilitating Next Generation Data Intensive Science Using Semantic Technologies Deborah McGuinness, Peter Fox - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Data Intensive Scalable Computing: Applying Google-Style Computing to eScience Randal E. Bryant - |
| 3:45-4:15 | Tools and Techniques for Computational Biology Carl Kadie - Microsoft Research |
Collaborative Data Analysis with Taverna Workflows Andrea Wiggins, Kevin Crowston - Syracuse University |
Integrating Streaming Data and Semantic Repositories Alejandro Rodriguez, Yong Liu, James Myers - University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign |
Understanding and Maturing the Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Storage Substrate Garth A. Gibson - Carnegie Mellon University
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| 4:15-4:45 | Performing Science in the Cloud: A Haplotype Phasing Case Study Yogesh Simmhan - Microsoft Research |
Lessons from myExperiment: Research Objects for Data Intensive Research David De Roure - University of Southampton Carole Goble - University of Manchester |
Using Multipartite Graphs for Recommendation and Discovery Michael Kurtz, Edwin Henneken, Alberto Accomazzi - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
Low Power Amdahl Blades for Data Intensive Computing Alexander Szalay, Andreas Terzis, Alainna White, Jan Vandenberg - Johns Hopkins University Gordon Bell, Jose Blakeley - Microsoft Howie Huang - George Washington University
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| 4:45-5:45 |
eOcean: The Challenges Ahead and Below the Waves Ellen Prager, President, Earth2Ocean, Inc
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| 6:30-9:00 |
Workshop dinner at Carnegie Museum | |||
Click the linked titles in the following table to view the presentation videos.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009 | ||||
| 8:00 | Breakfast | |||
| 9:00-10:00 |
Some Challenges in Natural Science Stephen Emmott Chair: Tony Hey | |||
| 10:00-10:15 | Break | |||
| PARALLEL TRACK SESSIONS | ||||
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SM1 |
SM2 |
SM3 |
SM4 | |
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Bioinformatics |
Development in Search & Semantics for Chemistry |
Democratizing Semantics for the Scientist |
Cloud Computing | |
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10:15-10:45 |
Bayesian Network Modelling of the Factors Influencing the Development of Obesity |
Navigating the Complex Web of Chemistry Using ChemSpider |
Social and Semantic Computing to Support Citizen Science Joel Sachs, Tejas Lagvankar, Tim Finnin - University of Maryland-Baltimore County
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Jie Li - University of Virginia Youngryel Ryu - University of California, Berkeley Keith Jackson, Deb Agarwal - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Catharine Van Ingen - Microsoft Research
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| 10:45-11:15 |
Navigating Across Multi-Scale Biological Systems Using Cognitive Modeling and Systems Approaches Conceptualized in Product Engineering Satish Chandra - National Aerospace Laboratories
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The oreChem Project: Integrating Chemistry Scholarship with the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Prasenjit Mitra, William Brouwer - Penn State University Mark Borkum - University of Southampton |
Tupelo: a Framework for E-Science Knowledge Spaces Joe Futrelle, Jeff Gaynor, Joel Plutchak, James Myers, Robert McGrath - |
Cloud Workflow Service: Automatically Scaling Scientific Workflows on Demand Roger Barga, Dean Guo, Jared Jackson - Microsoft External Research |
| 11:15-11:45 |
Improvements in the Determination of Fundamental Principles of RNA Structure and the Prediction of RNA Secondary and Tertiary Structure Robin Gutell, David Gardner - University of Texas, Austin Stuart Ozer - Microsoft |
Integrative Data Mining For Drug Discovery Using the Semantic Web Qian Zhu, Marlon Pierce, Geoffrey C. Fox, David J. Wild - Indiana University Michael S. Lajiness - Eli Lilly and Company
Extraction of NMR Spectra and Structural Data from Documents for Semantic Representation and Reuse Mark Borkum - University of Southampton William Brouwer - Penn State University
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Data Integration for E-Science Using Correlated Concepts Lushan Han, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha - University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
Cloud Computing for Planetary Defense Steven Johnston, Kenji Takeda, Hugh Lewis, Simon Cox, Graham Swinerd - University of Southampton |
| 11:45-12:45 | Break | |||
| PARALLEL TRACK SESSIONS | |||
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SA1 |
SA2 |
SA3 | |
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Medical Imaging |
Global Public Health |
Advances in Data Intensive Science Chair: Yan Xu | |
| 12:45-1:15 |
Segmentation of Confocal Stacks and Synaptic Regions for the Connectome Project Eric Miller - Tufts University
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Current Status of e-Health in Peru Lady Murrugarra - Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia |
A New Partnership for Cross-Scale, Cross-Domain eScience Bill Howe - University of Washington |
| 1:15-1:45 |
A Web-Based System for Biomedical Image Storage, Annotation, Content-Based Retrieval and Exploration Jorge Camargo, Juan Caicedo, Angel Cruz Roa, Eduardo Romero, Clara Spinel, Fabio Gonzalez - Universidad Nacional de Colombia David Seligmann, Jessica Forero - Politecnico Grancolombiano
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Model-Driven Support for a Vaccine Study in Kathmandu Jeremy Gibbons, Jim Davies, Steve Harris, Jane Metz, Matthew Snape, Andrew Pollard - University of Oxford |
Extracting Natural Laws from Data: Invariants Are Better Than Predictive Models Michael Schmidt, Hod Lipson - Cornell University |
| 1:45-2:15 |
Incorporating Problem-Based Learning in Medical Image Processing: A Case Study on Computing-Centric Engineering Education
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From Flops to (Peta)Bytes: the Expanding Role of Data in Scientific Analysis Nick Nystrom - Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center | |
| 2:15-2:30 | Break | ||
| PARALLEL TRACK SESSIONS | |||
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SA4 |
SA5 |
SA6 | |
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Biomedical Modeling |
Computational Thinking Research |
Data Driven Environmental Science | |
| 2:30-3:00 |
SysMO-DB: Just Enough Exchange for Systems Biology Data and Models Wolfgang Müller, O. Krebs, Isable Rojas - EML Jacky Snoep - University of Stellenbosch
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How Optimized Environmental Sensing Helps Address Information Overload on the Web Carlos Guestrin - Carnegie Mellon University |
Opportunities for Integration of Multi-Model Data for the Water Sciences Community Yong Liu, David Hill, Barbara Minsker - National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Healthcare e-Labs: Opening and Integrating Models of Health John Winn, Christopher Bishop - Microsoft Research |
Computational Thinking for a Modern Kidney Exchange Tuomas Sandholm - Carnegie Mellon University |
Modelling Data-Driven CO2 Sequestration Using Distributed HPC CyberInfrastructure Shantenu Jha - Louisiana State University
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| 3:30-4:00 |
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Guy Blelloch - Carnegie Mellon University |
Beyond Sensors: Curating Ancillary Data for Carbon-Climate Science Catharine Van Ingen - Microsoft Research Marty Humphrey - University of Virginia Deb Agarwal - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 4:00-5:00 |
From Flops to Petabytes: the Expanding Role of Data in NSF Cyberinfrastructure Ralph Roskies and Michael Levine Chair: Peter Lee | ||
