Second Eela-2 Conference November 25-27, 2009, Choroni, Venezuela: call for abstracts/papers

Second Eela-2 Conference November 25-27, 2009, Choroni, Venezuela: call for abstracts/papers

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

CONDITIONS AND DEADLINES:

- Abstracts, written in English, should be comprehensive enough to describe the actual content of the contribution (400 to 800 words) and should be sent to Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spambots. Es necesario activar Javascript para visualizarla as text, word or pdf.

- Accepted abstracts, either for oral or poster presentation, should be converted into papers of about 6 to 7 pages using this MSWord template http://documents.eu-eela.org/record/1281/files/, written in English (using the UK English dictionary) and (the MSWord version preferably zipped) should be sent to Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spambots. Es necesario activar Javascript para visualizarla .

- Files bigger than 5MB should be put somewhere on the web by the authors and the URL should be sent to Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spambots. Es necesario activar Javascript para visualizarla

Abstract submission deadline: September 4th, 2009

Acceptance notification: September 25th, 2009

Camera ready papers: October 16th, 2009

THE CONFERENCE:

The Event page is available at: http://indico.eu-eela.eu/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=201

The Second EELA-2 Conference will be held in Choroní, Venezuela on November 25th to 27th 2009. Its aim is 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 conference topics include, but are not limited to:

Grid Communities and Applications

    * Agronomy

    * Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astro-Particle Physics

    * Bioinformatics

    * Biology

    * Civil Protection

    * Computational Chemistry

    * Computer Science and Mathematics

    * Culture, Arts and Humanities

    * Earth Sciences

    * Economics

    * e-Government

    * e-Health

    * e-Learning

    * Engineering

    * Environmental Sciences

    * Fusion

    * High-Energy Physics

    * Industry

    * Material Science

    * Medical Imaging

Infrastructure & Application Related Software

    * 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

    * Quality Assurance

e-Infrastructures Perspectives

    * Emerging computing technologies e.g. Cloud Computing, Virtualization, …

    * Green e-Infrastructures

    * European Union-Latin American Research and Innovation Networks

    * 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

    * Public policies

    * Mobile and e-Infrastructures Convergence

    * Industry role and participation

LOCATION:

Hotel Hacienda El Portete
Choroni, Estado Aragua, Venezuela
Phone & Fax: +58-(0)243-9911255
Cell phone: +58-(0)414-3457768
http://www.elportete.com
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

    * Bernard Marechal , CETA-CIEMAT & UFRJ , Spain & Brazil

    * Bob Jones, EGEE-III / CERN, Switzerland

    * Carlos Casasus, CLARA & CUDI, Mexico

    * Diego Carvalho, CEFET-RJ and UFRJ, Brazil

    * Elie Aslanides, CPPM, France

    * Fabio Hernandez, CC-IN2P3, France

    * Federico Ruggieri, INFN-Roma, Italy

    * Florida Estrella Cainglet, CERN, Switzerland

    * Fotis Karayannis, Grece

    * Francisco Vilar Brasileiro, UFCG, Brazil

    * Gaspar Barreira, LIP, Portugal

    * Harold Castro, Uniandes, Colombia

    * Herbert Hoeger, ULA, Venezuela

    * Ian Foster, ANL, USA

    * Ines Dutra (Chair Person), UPORTO, Portugal

    * John Delaney, Washington University, USA

    * Ludek Matyska, CESNET, Czech Republic

    * Luis Angel Trejo, ITESM, Mexico

    * Luis Nuñez, ULA, Venezuela

    * Marta Giraldo, RENATA, Colombia

    * Michael Stanton, RNP & CLARA, Brazil

    * Ognjen Prnjat, GRNET, Grece

    * Philippe Gavillet, CETA-CIEMAT & CERN, Spain & Switzerland

    * Rafael Mayo, CIEMAT, Spain

    * Raul Ramos, CETA-CIEMAT, Spain

    * Roberto Barbera, University of Catania and INFN, Italy

    * Rui Camacho, Porto University, Portugal

    * Vicente Hernandez, UPV, Spain

    * Yolanda Ursa, INMARK, Spain

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

    * Bernard Marechal [Chair], CETA-CIEMAT & UFRJ, Spain & Brazil

    * Herbert Hoeger [Co-chair], ULA, Venezuela

    * Philippe Gavillet, CETA-CIEMAT & CERN, Spain & Switzerland

    * Roberto Barbera, University of Catania & INFN, Italy

    * Maria Jose Lopez, CLARA, Chile

    * Riccardo Bruno, INFN-Catania, Italy

    * Fabien Marty, HLP, France

    * Florence Chesneau, HLP, France

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

    * Herbert Hoeger [Chair] , ULA , Venezuela

    * Luis Nuñez [Co-chair], ULA, Venezuela

    * Indyra Araujo, ULA, Venezuela

    * Gilberto Diaz, ULA, Venezuela