VeRSI-Melbourne University eResearch Coffee Network
To foster the eResearch community at the University of Melbourne VeRSI, the Director of eResearch, and the eScholarship Research Centre are collaborating to provide an opportunity to network and discuss topics of interest with colleagues. These events take the form of weekly eResearch coffee mornings, on Tuesdays at 11am, in the VeRSI Melbourne office, ground floor of the Brownless Biomedical Library.
Of particular interest at Melbourne in 2008 is the Information Futures Commission, established at the end of 2007, and the development of the Information Futures Strategy, to be presented to University Council in July.
Discussions are periodically blogged, http://blogs.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/eresearch_coffee/. There is also a worksite (titled eCoffee) on MUSE, the Melbourne University Shared Environment.
For further information, to propose a topic for discussion, or to be added to the email list for updates, please contact either the eResearch Communications Manager, Gaby Bright, or the Melbourne University Research Information Manager, Simon Porter.
Previous discussion topics are available:
The first half of 2008 and 2007
Discussion Topics for the rest of 2008
| Date | Discussion Topic |
| August 5 |
Dr Raj Buyya, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Report back on the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid Raj's presentation from this discussion [5.4MB] |
| August 12 |
Dirk van der Knijff
Report back from International Supercomputing 08 including an update on the most recent TOP500 list Dirk presented a collection of slides [8.3MB] from Top500, presented by Erich Strohmaier, NERSC, and the keynote by Professor Satoshi Matsuoka,Tokyo Institute of Technology. He also reported on the work of Don Grice [3.4MB], IBM, and Thomas Sterling [5.1MB], Louisiana State University. |
| August 19 |
Professor John Furness, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
From mice to medicines: University of Melbourne involvement in the Australian Phenomics Network. John's presentation |
| August 26 |
Anthony Beitz, ARCHER: Australian ResearCH Enabling enviRonment
Link to ARCHER presentations |
| September 2 |
Prof Geoff Taylor, School of Physics
Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Media about the Life Science supercomputer announcement: The Age |
| September 9 |
Dr Chris Pettit Statewide Leader, Spatial Sciences, Department of Primary Industries
Ecoinformatics and the Victorian Climate Change Adaptation Program |
| September 16 |
Prof Leon Sterling, Director of eResearch
Melbourne University's Research Data Storage solution Leon's presentation from this discussion [630kB] |
| September 23 |
Sophie Hiotis
Professional Software Testing Sophie's presentation from this discussion [3.4MB] |
| September 30 | This week's eCoffee will not be held as the eResearch Australasia conference is on this week, in Melbourne. |
| October 7 |
Prof Justin Zobel, Chair of Computational Bioinformatics, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Where Metadata Fails: An Experiment on A University Website Justin's presentation: Does Topic Metadata Help With Search? [324kB] |
| October 14 |
eResearch Australasia Report back
There will be a report back on the recent eResearch Australasia conference. |