[Condor-users] International Winter School on Grid Computing 2008

[Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
International Winter School on Grid Computing 2008

http://www.iceage-eu.org/iwsgc08/

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The International Winter School on Grid Computing '08 will bring  
together world experts and enthusiastic students. It will be  
delivered fully online: participants will be able to attend the  
School without travelling. It will examine the conceptual and  
practical underpinnings of today's grids. Experts will provide  
exciting practical exercises, discuss the challenges of building and  
sustaining e-Infrastructure, report its rapid influence on the way we  
research, design and make decisions. They will share their vision of  
the developments and challenges ahead.
Comparable in commitment and scope with the famous International  
Summer School on Grid Computing (ISSGC), the International Winter  
School on Grid Computing provides a unique online educational  
opportunity. Rigorous both in admission requirements and expected  
work commitment, IWSGC retains the majority of learner benefits from  
ISSGC while offering a high degree of flexibility.
To support the hands-on laboratory sessions, the GILDA infrastructure  
will host widely used middleware. The testbed will be connected to  
major international Grids and provide a rich environment for hands-on  
learning and experimentation. Exercises and team work will encourage  
students to learn by using this testbed.
The target audience will include enthusiastic and ambitious young  
researchers who expect to use or develop grids in their research. We  
look forward to greeting participants from virtually every continent,  
from any country. Applications are invited from researchers who have  
recently started (or are about to start) working on Grid projects.  
Students may be planning to pioneer or enable new forms of e- 
Infrastructure, engage in fundamental distributed systems research or  
to develop new methods in any discipline that depends on the emerging  
capabilities of e-Infrastructure.
Selection for the Winter School is competitive based on the  
information supplied on the application form and by an applicant's  
referee. We expect to accept between 25 and 30 students. We will be  
looking for students with commitment and enthusiasm for Grid research  
and development. We will expect competence and experience in some  
aspects of software development, distributed systems, computational  
systems, data systems and Grid applications. Most students will  
establish their credentials from academic qualifications, but some  
will base this on experience. We also welcome as participants  
educators who are planning to teach Grid computing. The Summer School  
will be conducted in English, so participants are expected to be  
comfortable using spoken and written English.
We expect participants from computer science, computational science  
and any application discipline. The School will assume that students  
have diverse backgrounds and will build on that diversity.
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News:

In order to provide participants with a balanced view to  
possibilities of various grid technologies, we are constantly trying  
to make our Winter School as diverse as possible. For this reason, we  
are happy to announce that one more technology slot (Globus) is being  
added to the Winter School programme.
The final Winter School programme includes a total of four  
technologies, thus allowing students to make comparisons and see  
different approaches to common challenges in distributed computing.
We are more than pleased to announce our final list of keynote speakers.
The first keynote will be given by Miron Livny, the leader of Condor  
project and one of the leading experts in grid computing.
The second keynote will be given by Ian Foster, who is considered one  
of the founders of the international grid community.
The final keynote will be given by Malcolm Atkinson, UK e-Science  
Envoy and one of the most distinguished experts in grid computing.
After viewing each keynote, School participants will have a unique  
opportunity for live chat with the speakers.
At the present moment, we have 19 complete and 23 incomplete  
applications. Applications satisfying all academic requirements will  
be processed on first come first served basis. Considering the high  
number of applications, admissions to the International Winter School  
for Grid Computing '08 will be highly competitive. Prospective  
applicants are strongly advised to apply and/or complete their  
applications as soon as possible!
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Important Dates:
12th November 2007: Applications open
14th December 2007: Applications closed

Best regards,

Dr. David Fergusson
Programme Committee Chair

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School Website: http://www.iceage-eu.org/iwsgc08/
E-mail: IWSGC08@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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