Meeting of the E-science Committee of APAN

17th APAN (Asia Pacific Advanced Networks) meeting,
East-West Center, University of Hawai’I
Honolulu, Hawai’I, USA

AGENDA

Jan 27 2004
Keynote Addresses

8:00 The transformation of science and engineering through cyberinfrastructure. Prof. Tony Hey, Director, e-Science Core Program, UK Research Council.

8:30 Cyberinfrastructure - Revolutionizing discovery, learning and innovation in the 21st century. Dr. Deborah L. Crawford, Deputy Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, NSF.

Jan 28 2004

13:00 Workshop introduction, Review of the eScience Committee charter, Draft report & Discussion.
Chris Elvidge, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center.

13:30 Large-scale linguistics archives of endangered Asia-Pacific languages. Dr. Linda Barwick, University of Sydney and Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC).

14:00 Digitizing Aloha: Using Information Technology to Preserve and Present the History and Culture of Hawaii.
Dr. Bob Schwarzwalder, Assistant University Librarian for Library Information Technology University of Hawaii at Mânoa.

14:30 The GLORIAD Project. Prof. Baoping YAN, Director, Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

15:30 Cyberinfrastructure for Earth System Modeling.
Don Middleton, Manager, Visualization and Enabling Technologies Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

16:00 Overview of the Earth Observation Summit and the GEO Initiative. Chris Elvidge, NOAA.

15:00 The Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF)
V. Balaji, SGI/GFDL Princeton University

16:30 Discussion on:
1) building an APAN eScience community across organizational lines,

2) promoting eScience in the Asia Pacific.

Jan 30 2004

12:30-13:30 Escience Committee Meeting

• Planning discussion on building an APAN eScience community across organizational lines and promoting eScience in the Asia Pacific
• Planning for next two eScience workshops and future directions