Dear All,

Please find enclosed a report on E-Science 2005 Conference (concluded last
month). We have put slides of keynote and tutorials presentations on line and
you will be able to download from:
http://www.gridbus.org/escience/escience2005/escience2005schedule.html
The conference proceedings is published by the IEEE CS Press and it should
appears in their Digital Library and IEEE Xplore soon.

I hope you all have enjoyed recent Christmas holidays and new year celebrations.
And let me take this opportunity to wish all a happy and prosperous new year!

Cheers
Raj

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E-Science 2005 Conference Report
By Ron Perrott and Rajkumar Buyya, e-Science 2005 co-chairs
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The first International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
(e-Science 2005) was held December 5-8, 2005 at the Langham Hotel in
Melbourne, Australia. The conference provided a forum for all e-science
and grid researchers, developers and users to discuss and discover recent
progress in e-science.

This first in a series of e-Science conferences was held jointly with the second
International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information
Processing (ISSNIP 2005). The combined conferences attracted more than 350
participants from more than 30 countries. The e-Science conference alone
received over 175 contributions from Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.

"The interest the conference generated worldwide was impressive, as was the high
quality of the papers submitted from the international community," said
conference organizer Ron Perrott. "The keynote speakers really set the scene by
presenting vision, opportunity and progress in the e-science area. The breadth
and depth of the conference presentations emphasised the widespread developments
taking place in grid computing and e-science."

The e-Science 2005 conference was sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's
Technical Committee for Scalable Computing and organized by the University of
Melbourne in cooperation with various research organizations. Financial support
was received from the State of Victoria, AMD, Intel, Alexander Technologies,
Dell, EMC, WASP, MMSN and NICTA.

The conference program included keynote speeches, peer-reviewed research paper
presentations, workshops, an industry track, tutorials and a poster session.
Mark Sargent, Chairman of the Australian National e-Research Coordination
Committee, kicked off the conference. Keynote speakers included Ian Foster, one
of the creators of the grid, from Argonne National Laboratory in the U.S.,
Carole Goble of the e-Science North West Centre at The University of Manchester
in the UK, and Professor Hideo Matsuda from the Department of Bioinformatic
Engineering at Osaka University in Japan. The keynote addresses set the tone of
the conference and provided the delegates with a great insight into
service-oriented architectures, data integration and Web semantics.

The conference hosted three workshops: Innovative and Collaborative Problem
Solving Environment in Distributed Resources; Deploying Production Grids—Beyond
the Hype; and Scientific Instruments and Sensors on the Grid. Tutorials on three
different middleware implementations were also offered: the Gridbus Toolkit,
delivered by researchers from the GRIDS Lab, University of Melbourne; the Globus
Toolkit delivered by Ian Foster; and Nimrod-G, from researchers at Monash
University in Australia.

Presentation slides of some of these tutorials are available for download from
the conference Web site: The first International Conference on e-Science and
Grid Computing (e-Science 2005) was held December 5-8, 2005 at the Langham Hotel
in Melbourne, Australia. The conference provided a forum for all e-science and
grid researchers, developers and users to discuss and discover recent progress
in e-science.

This first in a series of e-Science conferences was held jointly with the second
International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information
Processing (ISSNIP 2005). The combined conferences attracted more than 350
participants from more than 30 countries. The e-Science conference alone
received over 175 contributions from Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.

"The interest the conference generated worldwide was impressive, as was the high
quality of the papers submitted from the international community," said
conference organizer Ron Perrott. "The keynote speakers really set the scene by
presenting vision, opportunity and progress in the e-science area. The breadth
and depth of the conference presentations emphasised the widespread developments
taking place in grid computing and e-science."

The e-Science 2005 conference was sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's
Technical Committee for Scalable Computing and organized by the University of
Melbourne in cooperation with various research organizations. Financial support
was received from the State of Victoria, AMD, Intel, Alexander Technologies,
Dell, EMC, WASP, MMSN and NICTA.

The conference program included keynote speeches, peer-reviewed research paper
presentations, workshops, an industry track, tutorials and a poster session.
Mark Sargent, Chairman of the Australian National e-Research Coordination
Committee, kicked off the conference. Keynote speakers included Ian Foster, one
of the creators of the grid, from Argonne National Laboratory in the U.S.,
Carole Goble of the e-Science North West Centre at The University of Manchester
in the UK, and Professor Hideo Matsuda from the Department of Bioinformatic
Engineering at Osaka University in Japan. The keynote addresses set the tone of
the conference and provided the delegates with a great insight into
service-oriented architectures, data integration and Web semantics.

The conference hosted three workshops: Innovative and Collaborative Problem
Solving Environment in Distributed Resources; Deploying Production Grids—Beyond
the Hype; and Scientific Instruments and Sensors on the Grid. Tutorials on three
different middleware implementations were also offered: the Gridbus Toolkit,
delivered by researchers from the GRIDS Lab, University of Melbourne; the Globus
Toolkit delivered by Ian Foster; and Nimrod-G, from researchers at Monash
University in Australia.

Presentation slides of some of these tutorials are available for download from
the conference Web site. More details about e-Science 2006, which will take
place December 4-6 in Amsterdam, can be found at:
http://www.gridbus.org/escience/escience2005/

More details about e-Science 2006, which will take place December 4-6 in
Amsterdam, can be found at: http://www.gridbus.org/escience/.
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