Forthcoming Events

AccessGridBoF to be held at the UK e-Science All Hands Conference, Nottingham, September 2006.

PortalsAndPortlets2006 to be held at NeSC 17-19th July 2006

"e-Collaboration Workshop - Access Grid, Portals and other Virtual Research Environments for the Social Sciences" mini-workshop to be held at the 2nd International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, June 2006.

We held a successful workshop on Portals and VREs last year at the conference, and this year we are focusing on collaboration tools using both portals and Access Grid. A substantial part of the workshop should focus on requirements, potentially combining these two technologies, as well as reporting on progress and uptake of collaboration tools within existing projects and environments.

We are now seeking speakers for this workshop. If you wish to make a presentation or have suggestions for a discussion theme please contact one of the organisers, Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley or Mike Daw. Presentations will be informal, so we do not need a full paper, but please suggest a title and short abstract.

"User Requirements and Web based access for e-Research" to be held at NeSC, 19th May 2006

Past Events

"LightWeight Grid Computing" held at Losehill Hall, Derbyshire, 2-3rd May 2006.

Mark Baker organised the VRE Developers Workshop http://dsg.port.ac.uk/events/workshops/VRE05/ that was held in Portsmouth at the Queens Hotel on 18th and 19th January. More than forty people attended the workshop; material presented at the workshop can be found on the events Web pages. A collection of photos from the workshop is also available http://dsg.port.ac.uk/~hx/photos/vre.

"GridSphere and Portlets" an event held on 3-4th March 2005 at the National e-Science Centre, NeSC - see http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/549/

"First International Conference on e-Social Science", that took place on 22-24 June 2005, Manchester, UK, see http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/index.shtml

"Mini workshop on VREs" was held at UK e-Science All Hands Conference, Midland Conference Centre Nottingham 20-22nd September 2005. A Call for Papers will appear soon and the date of the mini-workshop announced nearer the time.

"e-Research work-in" NeSC 28/2-2/3/05 http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/571/

A previous conference "Portals and Portlets 2003" was held at NeSC, 14-17th July 2003 and included a GridSphere Tutorial. See presentation materials http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=261 and workshop write-up in PDF http://www.nesc.ac.uk/technical_papers/UKeS-2004-06.pdf