NeIC 2015 conference
Building on the enthusiasm from the first Nordic e-Infrastructure conference last year, we are happy to announce the next NeIC conference, to be hosted by NeIC and CSC - IT Center for Science. Similar to the first NeIC conference we aim to organise NeIC 2015 as a collaboration between CSC, DeIC, NeIC, NORDUnet, RHnet, SNIC and UNINETT Sigma.
Event: NeIC 2015 conference - Nordic Collaboration for Global Excellence
Time: 2015-05-06 – 2015-05-08.
Location: Espoo, Helsinki, Finland.
Wiki: http://wiki.neic.no/wiki/neic2015 (this page).
Website: Conference website
Registration: Registration is now open
Deadlines
- 2015-02-28: Workshop agenda sent in to program committee.
- 2015-02-28: Conference talk title and abstract sent in to program committee.
- 2015-04-28: Speaker presentations sent in to program committee; you will not be able to use your own laptop.
- 2015-03-31: Workshop talk titles and abstracts sent in to program committee.
- 2015-04-28: Workshop presentations sent in to workshop organizers; you will not be able to use your own laptop.
Program
The official NeIC 2015 conference program is available here:
http://neic2015.nordforsk.org/display/NeIC2015/Programme
The draft program that was previously displayed here is now no longer kept updated, but is available here for reference.
Organisation
Project owner: Michaela Barth, NeIC
Project leader: Pål Pettersen, NeIC
Working groups
These are the various groups that do work to plan and carry out the event.
Steering group
- Michaela Barth, NeIC (chair)
Organizing committee
- Pål Pettersen, NeIC (chair)
- Vigdis Guldseth, UNINETT Sigma
- Tiina Leiponen, CSC
Further members TBA.
Program reference group
"The Programme Reference Group (PRG), will consist of well-connected individuals with expertise covering a broad range of fields related to e-Infrastructure and its use. The PRG will function as a think tank with its mandate to propose a programme concept of bold and creative ideas; including session themes, formats and keynote speakers. The Programme Committee will then transfer the ideas of the PRG into a coherent programme and invite suggested speakers."
- Gudmund Høst, NeIC (chair)
- Joel Hedlund, NeIC (secretary)
- Ebba Þóra Hvannberg, UoIceland
- Erik Elmroth, UoUmeå
- Josva Kleist, NORDUnet
- Kenneth Ruud, UoTromsø.
- Per Öster, CSC
Internal working area: Conference program development wiki.
Program committee
The responsibilities of the program committee is to invite speakers, and to schedule talks and sessions into a coherent time plan for the conference.
- Joel Hedlund, NeIC, BMS (chair).
- Pål Pettersen, NeIC (secretary)
- Hans Eide, USIT, HPC/GEN
- Oxana Smirnova, NeIC CERN liaison, HEP/NT1.
- Jura Tarus, CSC.
- Victoria Westling, NSC, communications.
Internal working area: Conference program development wiki.
Local organising committee
The responsibilities of the local organising committee include communication with venue service providers and running local "ground service".
- Tiina Leiponen, CSC
Further members TBA, but will mainly be composed of persons from CSC.