FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
International Winter School on Grid Computing 2008
http://www.iceage-e
u.org/iwsgc08/
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The International Winter School on Grid Computing '08 will
bring
together world experts and enthusiastic students. It will be
delivered fully online: participants will be able to attend
the
School without travelling. It will examine the conceptual
and
practical underpinnings of today's grids. Experts will
provide
exciting practical exercises, discuss the challenges of
building and
sustaining e-Infrastructure, report its rapid influence on
the way we
research, design and make decisions. They will share their
vision of
the developments and challenges ahead.
Comparable in commitment and scope with the famous
International
Summer School on Grid Computing (ISSGC), the International
Winter
School on Grid Computing provides a unique online
educational
opportunity. Rigorous both in admission requirements and
expected
work commitment, IWSGC retains the majority of learner
benefits from
ISSGC while offering a high degree of flexibility.
To support the hands-on laboratory sessions, the GILDA
infrastructure
will host widely used middleware. The testbed will be
connected to
major international Grids and provide a rich environment for
hands-on
learning and experimentation. Exercises and team work will
encourage
students to learn by using this testbed.
The target audience will include enthusiastic and ambitious
young
researchers who expect to use or develop grids in their
research. We
look forward to greeting participants from virtually every
continent,
from any country. Applications are invited from researchers
who have
recently started (or are about to start) working on Grid
projects.
Students may be planning to pioneer or enable new forms of
e-
Infrastructure, engage in fundamental distributed systems
research or
to develop new methods in any discipline that depends on the
emerging
capabilities of e-Infrastructure.
Selection for the Winter School is competitive based on the
information supplied on the application form and by an
applicant's
referee. We expect to accept between 25 and 30 students. We
will be
looking for students with commitment and enthusiasm for Grid
research
and development. We will expect competence and experience in
some
aspects of software development, distributed systems,
computational
systems, data systems and Grid applications. Most students
will
establish their credentials from academic qualifications,
but some
will base this on experience. We also welcome as
participants
educators who are planning to teach Grid computing. The
Summer School
will be conducted in English, so participants are expected
to be
comfortable using spoken and written English.
We expect participants from computer science, computational
science
and any application discipline. The School will assume that
students
have diverse backgrounds and will build on that diversity.
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News:
In order to provide participants with a balanced view to
possibilities of various grid technologies, we are
constantly trying
to make our Winter School as diverse as possible. For this
reason, we
are happy to announce that one more technology slot (Globus)
is being
added to the Winter School programme.
The final Winter School programme includes a total of four
technologies, thus allowing students to make comparisons and
see
different approaches to common challenges in distributed
computing.
We are more than pleased to announce our final list of
keynote speakers.
The first keynote will be given by Miron Livny, the leader
of Condor
project and one of the leading experts in grid computing.
The second keynote will be given by Ian Foster, who is
considered one
of the founders of the international grid community.
The final keynote will be given by Malcolm Atkinson, UK
e-Science
Envoy and one of the most distinguished experts in grid
computing.
After viewing each keynote, School participants will have a
unique
opportunity for live chat with the speakers.
At the present moment, we have 19 complete and 23 incomplete
applications. Applications satisfying all academic
requirements will
be processed on first come first served basis. Considering
the high
number of applications, admissions to the International
Winter School
for Grid Computing '08 will be highly competitive.
Prospective
applicants are strongly advised to apply and/or complete
their
applications as soon as possible!
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Important Dates:
12th November 2007: Applications open
14th December 2007: Applications closed
Best regards,
Dr. David Fergusson
Programme Committee Chair
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School Website: http://www.iceage-e
u.org/iwsgc08/
E-mail: IWSGC08 lists.nesc.ac.uk
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