EELA-2 (E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America: http://www.eu-eela.eu/) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the First EELA-2 Conference that will take place in Bogota, Colombia, from February 25 to 27, 2009

EELA-2 (E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America: http://www.eu-eela.eu/) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the First EELA-2 Conference that will take place in Bogota, Colombia, from February 25 to 27, 2009

The First EELA-2 Conference is meant to be both an “open conference” and a “user forum” and its Scientific Programme is conceived to reach two main objectives:

-         Present a selection of the most impressive results obtained by scientific communities using not only EELA-2 but also other e-Infrastructures in Latin America and the rest of the world;

-         Discuss policies and plans for the long term sustainability of Regional e-Infrastructures, with special emphasis on the Latin American one.

The Event page is available at: http://indico.eu-eela.eu/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=132. 

NEW DEADLINES:

-         Abstract submission deadline: January 5, 2009  

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-         Acceptance notification: January 15, 2009

-         Camera ready papers: February 1, 2009

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 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PAPERS

-         Abstracts should be between 100 and 350 words long.

-         Accepted abstracts should be converted into papers and follow the template given in the event page.

The conference topics include, but are not limited to:

Grid Communities and Applications

-         Culture, Arts and Humanities

-         Biomedical informatics/e-Health

-         Distance and eLearning

-         High Energy Physics

-         Earth Sciences

-         Material Science

-         Astrophysics

-         e-Government

-         Artificial Intelligence

-         Civil Protection

-         Engineering

e-Infrastructures case studies

-         AAA in a Grid Environment

-         Security Challenges

-         Grid Middleware Interoperability

-         Scientific repositories

-         Grid in Education and Education with/on Grid

-         Grid Portals and Problem Solving Environments

-         Data Access and Management

-         Resource Management and Scheduling

e-Infrastructures for Development

-         Ongoing and/or Planned Grid Projects in Europe and the rest of the World

-         Regional, National and/or International Grid Infrastructures Deployment and Operation

-         Long term sustainability

-         Quality Assurance

-         Public policies

-         Mobile and e-Infrastructures Convergence

-         Industry role and participation

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

-    Alejandro Jofre (UChile – Chile) 

-    Alexandre Duarte (UFCG – Brazil)   

-    Bernard Marechal (CETA-CIEMAT - Spain)   

-    Diego Carvalho (CEFET-RJ and UFRJ - Brazil) 

-    Diego Scardaci (INFN – Italy) 

-    Fabio Hernandez (CC-IN2P3 – France) 

-    Francisco Vilar Brasileiro (UFCG – Brazil) 

-    Fotis Karayannis (GRNET – Grece)

-    Gaspar Barreira (LIP - Portugal) 

-    Harold Castro (Uniandes – Colombia)   

-    Herbert Hoeger (ULA - Venezuela) 

-    Leandro Cuiffo (INFN – Italy)   

-    Luiz Nuñez (ULA - Venezuela) 

-    Marcio Faerman (RNP – Brazil)   

-    Michael Stanton (RNP-Clara – Brazil) 

-    Philippe Gavillet (CETA-CIEMAT - Spain)   

-    Rafael Mayo (CIEMAT - Spain)   

-    Raul Ramos (CETA-CIEMAT - Spain)   

-    Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and INFN - Italy)   

-    Wilson Rivera (UPRM – Puerto Rico)   

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

-    Florence Chesneau (HLP – France) 

-    Herbert Hoeger (ULA – Venezuela)  

-    Leandro N. Ciuffo (INFN-Catania)   

-    Maria Jose Lopez (CLARA)   

-    Paulo Chebat (HLP – France) 

-    Riccardo Bruno (INFN-Catania) 

-    Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and INFN) 

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE

-    Chair: Harold Castro (Uniandes – Colombia)   

-    Co-chair: Claudia Jimenez (Uniandes – Colombia)   

-    Andres Holguin (Uniandes – Colombia) 

-    Bernardo Gomez (Uniandes – Colombia) 

-    Jorge Chacon (UIS – Colombia) 

-    Martha Ines Giraldo (RENATA- Colombia)