The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI

The use of computers in scientific research creates challenges even as it expands the realm of the possible. Many of these challenges are common across research disciplines and areas of endeavor. Insights gained in one area of science can act as a catalyst for change and accelerate discovery in many others.

The goal of this cross-disciplinary workshop is to bring together scientists from diverse research disciplines and give them the opportunity to share their research and their experiences of how computing is shaping their work and thus providing new insights into facilitating scientific discovery. The focus will be on discussion of the computing technologies that enable scalable solutions in order to address scientific grand challenges.

The Microsoft eScience Workshop invites contributions from all areas of eScience and e-Research including:

Computational enablement of scientific research in life sciences, biomedical computing, environment, energy, and other areas of scientific grand challenges
Knowledge discovery and merging datasets
Large-scale science data analysis, mining, and visualization
High performance computing in science
Dissemination of scientific literature/results, the curation of data, and the finding/sharing of research
Scientific sensors and data gathering tools and technologies
Collaboration and workflow tools and technologies

This event is held in partnership with Indiana University and the IEEE eScience Conference. The venue for the event is University Place Conference Center & Hotel at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in Indianapolis, Indiana. The primary sponsor for the event is the External Research group at Microsoft, headed by Corporate Vice President Tony Hey.