VeRSI-Monash University eResearch Coffee Network
To develop the eResearch community at Monash University, VeRSI collaborates with the Director of eResearch, Paul Bonnington, and the Monash e-Research Centre in the running of informal discussions about eResearch.
These discussions take the form of a fortnightly meeting, coffee provided, with topics identified for discussion, or a brief presentation. They are held every second Thursday at 10am. Please check the schedule below for location information. The discussions are open to anyone and we welcome Monash research and professional staff, as well as those from outside the Monash Community.
For further information or to propose a topic for discussionplease contact either Gaby Bright, the VeRSI eResearch Communications Manager, or Anthony Beitz, Technical Manager for Monash e-Research Centre.
For mailing list enquiries please email Cheryle Allan of the Monash e-Research Centre.
Previous discussion topics are available:
2008
Discussion Topics for 2009
| Date | Discussion Topic | Location |
| Wednesday Jan 28 |
Robin Rice, University Librarian, University of Edinburgh
Project Manager, DISC-UK DataShare Robin's visit was organised by Monash Library Robin's presentation  [1MB]
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Room E365, East Wing, Building 11 (Menzies)
Clayton campus |
| Thursday Jan 29 |
Andrew Alexander Manager ARCS Collaboration Services
Andrew's presentation [2.1MB]
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Room E365, East Wing, Building 11 (Menzies) |
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Tuesday Feb 3
Coffee at 9.45 for 10am start |
Florian Goessman Manager ARCS Data Services
ARCS: The Australian Research Collaboration Service and its Offerings related to Storage and Movement of Data flyer [56kB]
Florian's presentation [1.6MB]
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Room E365, East Wing, Building 11 (Menzies)
Clayton campus |
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Thursday Feb 19
10am start (coffee at 9.45) |
Greg Wickham, AARNet Program Manager for e-Research
Overview of AARNet, and of the technologies which can transform how research is carried out flyer [12kB]
Greg's presentation [6.5MB]
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Conference Room
Level 1 Matheson Library Clayton campus |
| Thurs March 5 |
VeRSI
A continuation of the presentation from November last year covering their ecoinformatics, VBL and federated data storage project Presentation by VeRSI [6.8MB]
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Conference Room
Level 1 Matheson Library Clayton campus |
| The MURPA Seminar Series is on again during Semester One and the presentations, via high definition interactive video link from San Diego, will be replacing the eCoffee schedule until May. The seminars are weekly and coffee will still be available. | ||
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10-11
Thurs March 12 |
Peter Arzberger, Chair of PRAGMA
Benefiting Society through Information Technology: Why Changes in Education are Needed |
Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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10-11
Thurs March 19 |
Fran Berman, Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center
Harnessing the Data Deluge |
Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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10-11
Thurs March 26 |
Ilkay Altintas, Director Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies Lab UCSD
On Basics of Using Workflows for Scientific Exploration and the Kepler System |
Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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10-11
Thurs April 2 |
Roy Kerckhoffs, UCSD Department of Bioengineering
Multi Scale Modelling of the Cardio System |
Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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10-11
Thurs April 9 |
Cindy Zheng Grid Engineer, San Diego Supercomputer Centre Introduction to the PRAGMA eScience grid |
Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
| Thurs April 16 | Easter break | |
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10-11
Thurs April 23 |
Wilfred Li, Executive Director National Biomedical Computation Resource UCSD
Machine Learning Approaches in Avian Flu Drug Discovery |
Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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10-11
Thurs April 30 |
Phil Papadopoulos, Program Director, UC Computing Systems, UCSD
TBA |
Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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10-11
Thurs May 7 |
Mike Norman, Chief Scientific Officer San Diego Supercomputer Center
TBA |
Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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10-11
Thurs May 14 
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Can a Greener Internet Help Us Moderate Climate Change? Abstract VeRSI supports fair trade by buying fair trade coffee. This eCoffee session has been registered as an Oxfam Coffee Break. Watch the Coffee Break video |
Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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10-11
Thurs May 28 |
Sam Searle Data Management Coordinator, Monash Library
Research data management - an update on Monash University Library activities Monash University is well underway in developing the technical infrastructure for research data, but significant cultural change is also required. Researchers' knowledge, decision-making and day-to-day practices, and the culture of their disciplines, all impact on how they manage their data. Faced with legal requirements, ethical protocols, and policy frameworks - on top of an `acronym soup' of technical options - researchers are seeking information, advice, and professional development opportunities to help them navigate this complex environment. Working alongside the e-Research Centre, the Library's evolving approach to research data includes policy and governance structures, data management planning support, professional development for Library staff and researchers, and outreach activities. A dedicated role - Data Management Coordinator - was established in 2008 to support the work of the Library and the wider university. Sam will share her experiences in this role so far, and give an overview of activities to date as well as some challenges that are ahead. Sam's presentation [420kB]
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Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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10-11
Thurs June 11 |
Jim McGovern ARCS Systems Services Manager
ARCS Systems: from Grid to Cloud Computing The ARCS Systems Services team is responsible for the operation of the ARCS Grid and development of ICT infrastructure that supports the Grid as well as broader ARCS activities. The team has also focussed on development of tools and services that make it easier to submit and monitor HPC jobs via the Grid. To this end, Grisu, a tool that provides an easy to use GUI has recently been released. In the longer term the Systems Team is working towards even easier to use web-based tools and a fully fledged ARCS Compute Cloud. Jim's presentation  [490kB]
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Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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9am - 12.30pm
Wednesday June 17 |
MeRC Visualisation workshop
Presenters at this visualisation workshop include two researchers from the US who will be speaking via high definition from UC San Diego. Speakers: Dr Jurgen Schulze (Calit2), Professor Chris Johnson (Uni of Utah), Professor Gary Egan (Florey Institute), Dr Rob Bryson-Richardson (Monash Uni), Dr Kieran Short (Monash Uni) |
Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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10-11
Thurs June 25 |
Prof Paul Bonnington Director of the Monash e-Research Centre |
Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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10-11
Thurs July 9 |
Dr Ross Wilkinson Executive Director, Australian National Data Service |
Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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10-11
Thursday July 23 |
Associate Professor Ashley Buckle Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University
New Approaches to Data-Driven Publication in (Biomedical) Science Publication of biomedical data has in general not kept pace with Web 2.0 internet technologies. Notable exceptions include the PLoS initiatives, but even these are based firmly on legacy scientific publishing models. In this talk I will describe some of our recent work aimed at creating new data-centric publication spaces, representing a radical departure from traditional journals. I will describe how we are doing this for one particular type of data in my own field of protein science, but will also explore how this could be possible for other data types in this and other, non-biomedical fields. |
Room 135 Building 26 Clayton |
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In second semester eCoffees will be replaced by a special seminar series on Life Science Computation. Further details ... |
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