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The e-Science Institute esi.ac.uk

The e-Science Institute http://www.esi.ac.uk. Dr Anna Kenway, Deputy Director September 2005. Mission. To provide an international centre of research excellence to stimulate invention and exploitation of e-Science methods and technologies.

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The e-Science Institute esi.ac.uk

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  1. The e-Science Institutehttp://www.esi.ac.uk Dr Anna Kenway, Deputy Director September 2005

  2. Mission To provide an international centre of research excellence to stimulate invention and exploitation of e-Science methods and technologies. In comparison an early part of the mission was to build a community …

  3. Activity To achieve this eSI runs two principal types of activity: • Research meetings • Conferences • Workshops • Schools • Training • Visitors’ programme

  4. History • Started in August 2001 • Funding of £ 0.5M p.a. from the joint Research Councils through the DTI • Initially for three years • Extended for two more years to July 2006

  5. History • Started in August 2001 • Funding of £ 0.5M p.a. from the joint Research Councils through the DTI • Initially for three years • Extended for two more years to July 2006

  6. History

  7. History • Since then we have: • Run an average of > 7 events a month (for a total of more than 350 events) • Had more than 10,000 delegates through these doors • Hosted 43 visitors including 7 long-term researchers Sometime in April 2005 we had our 24,000th delegate day

  8. Delegates Geographic Origin

  9. Delegates Sector

  10. Website • A popular resource • There are over 3000 documents (talks, presentations and meeting reports) on the NeSC Website • Downloads of these documents form 97% of our (non robot) 250 thousand website hits per month • More than 9000 hits a day transferring around 8000 files and 1.8 GB of data

  11. Website Requestor Origin

  12. Responsive Mode • Initially, the community requirement was for a rapid response to requests for meetings and workshops • “We need a meeting next month to…” • Many opportunities for • community building • outreach to new communities • encouraging interdisciplinary dialogue

  13. Thematic Mode • The community is maturing • e.g. training needs have  UK training team • eSI can develop a thematic mode programme that concentrates on in-depth and sustained investigation of a topic

  14. Themes http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/themes/index.htm • Two active at any time • Run for a period of 6 to 12 months • Link together a series of workshops, talks and visitors • Led by a theme leader • Guidance from the Science Advisory Board

  15. Immediate Practice ‘Newbies’ Long-term Theory Established Experts Research issues Pipeline Participants Theme Scope ScienceArts & Humanities UniversitiesIndustry NationalInternational

  16. Theme 1 • Information Services for Smart Decision Making (Dr Jennifer Schopf)

  17. Theme 2 • Exploiting Diverse Sources of Scientific Data (Malcolm Atkinson)

  18. Call for the next theme is about to happen… Questions?

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