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University Information Technology Services News Room

Call for Participation: IEEE 2008 eScience Conference

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 9, 2008

BLOOMINGTON, Ind - Organizing committees of the 4th International IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing eScience 2008 Conference are now accepting papers and proposals for tutorials; posters, exhibits and demos; workshops and special sessions.

The conference is being held in partnership with the Microsoft Research eScience Workshop and is hosted by Indiana University. Sponsors include Microsoft Research, Louisiana State University Center for Computation and Technology, and Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University.

Conference Dates: December 7-12, 2008

Conference Location: University Place Conference Center, Indiana University/Purdue University (IUPUI) Campus, Indianapolis, IN

Submission Deadlines:

Workshops and Special Sessions: June 20, 2008

Papers & Tutorials: July 20, 2008

Posters, Exhibits and Demos: September 14, 2008

For submission guidelines and more information visit the conference Web site: http://escience2008.iu.edu.

Topics of interest cover applications and technologies related to eScience, grid and cloud computing. They include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Application development environments
• Autonomic, real-time, and self-organizing grids
• Cloud computing and storage
• Collaborative science models and techniques
• Enabling technologies: Internet and Web services
• e-Science for applications including physics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, finance, engineering, and the humanities
• Grid economy and business models
• Problem-solving environments
• Programming paradigms and models
• Resource management and scheduling
• Security challenges for grids and e-Science
• Sensor networks and environmental observatories
• Service-oriented grid architectures
• Virtual instruments and data access management
• Virtualization for technical computing
• Web 2.0 technology and services for e-Science

Sponsors Include:

IEEE Computer Society Comiittee on Scalable Computing

Microsoft Research

Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University

Indiana University School of Informatics

Louisiana State University Center for Computation and Technology

Conference Leadership:

General Chairs

Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, United States

Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, United States

Program Chair

Anne Trefethen, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Program Vice-Chair

David Wallom, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Workshops Chair

Ken Chiu, State University of New York, United States

Tutorials Chair

Krishna Madhavan, Clemson University, United States

Exhibits, Demos, and Posters Chair

Daniel S. Katz, Louisiana State University, United States

Exhibits, Demos, and Posters Vice-Chair

Shantenu Jha, Louisiana State University, United States

Education, Diversity, and Broadening Participation Chair

Alex Ramirez, Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

Communication and Outreach Chair

Daphne Siefert-Herron, Indiana University, United States

Microsoft e-Science Conference Chair

Kristin Tolle, Microsoft, United States

Conference Manager

Therese Miller, Indiana University, United States

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