Cheaper standard registration rates for APAN26 end on 15 May, so make your booking now to enjoy our diverse programme.

Further speakers confirmed for the High Performance Research Symposium (HPRS)

Three speakers have been confirmed to speak alongside Ian Foster at HPRS:

The Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC) at King’s College London has published a report entitled Text and Grid: Research Questions for the Humanities, Sciences and Industry.

ResearchChannel has invited New Zealand researchers to take part in the public beta test of Research1.

Members of the international research and higher education community are invited to participate in eResearch Australasia 2008, to be held 28 Sep - 3 Oct 2008 at the Sebel and Citigate Hotels, Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia.

Is the internet changing science? Yes, according to Ben Shneiderman, a University of Maryland computer science professor. It's time for science to incorporate social networking and collaboration too.

REANNZ and BlueFern^TM at the University of Canterbury has joined forces to bring you two fantastic events in August 2008 - APAN26 Sustainable Networking and the High Performance Research Symposium.

The University of Canterbury's High Performance Research Symposium - 4 August 2008, Queenstown - will set the scene for APAN26, showcasing best practice e-Research projects, programmes and tools.

Book your place now at APAN 26 - Registrations are now open for the APAN 26 Sustainable Networking conference, 4-8 August 2008, Queenstown, New Zealand.

Experience first-hand how ICT developments and advanced networks are changing the look and feel of research and collaboration in the Asia Pacific region and are contributing towards environmental, regional and operational sustainability; participate in demonstrations of applications and services that are only possible over advanced networks like KAREN.

26-28 November, University of Auckland

Research coordination and collaboration for geoscience in New Zealand is leaping forward with the recent initiation of the SCENZ-GRID project to establish a grid infrastructure for geoscientists in New Zealand and the larger scale NCRIS funded AuScope project in Australia.

In the spirit of shared knowledge, three reports from KAREN community members on Capability Build Fund supported travel and event activities have recently been added to our website.

Visit Computerworld online to check out Ian Foster's visionary and strategic statements about service-orientated science - the future of science.

A new mailing list has been established by the organising committee of the eResearch Australia 2007 conference to announce eResearch related activities and events of interest to the education and research community.

Presentations from the International Workshop on Virtual Research Environments and Collaborative Work Environments are now available online.

A blog entry from Bill St. Arnaud highlighted the use of Amazon's web services to run bioinformatics supercomuting applications.

The annual conference of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) was held in Birmingham on 13 March. JISC funds a range of ICT services and programmes to support education and research, including JANET, the UK equivalent of KAREN.

Does all of the jargon that comes with eResearch confuse you?

Pete Beckman and Jim Basney join other trail-blazers in eresearch as speakers at the High Performance Research Symposium.

A call for papers has been issued for the 7th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research  (AusGrid 2009).

Check out the latest edition of EDUCAUSE Review for enlightening articles on the use of cyberinfrastructure (high performance computing, data, visualisation, virtual organisations and advanced networks) for research and education.

eResearch Australasia attendees (or any other KAREN members who happen to be in Melbourne next week) are invited to attend this event that will explore opportunities for eResearch collaborations across the Tasman.

Missed out on eResearch Australasia? This video conference is your chance to hear highlights of the event from New Zealand researchers.

On Tuesday 21 October, Stuart Charters from Lincoln University and Nicky Gardner from ESR will present highlights from their attendance at eResearch Australasia 2008 conference. Stuart will also share highlights from the GPU (graphics processing unit) Computing workshop.

David Thorns and his team at the University of Canterbury invite KAREN members to participate in an online survey on the user experience of video conferencing.

The Social Science Research Centre would like to thank those of you who completed the online survey about use of video conferencing technology. The results so far have been very interesting. For those who did not get a chance to fill it out, the survey is still open, if you would like to express your views.

Join us tomorrow to hear Julia Charity, Scion's KAREN champion, share her strategies for increasing video conference usage among Scion's research community.

Video conferencing is an easy and effective tool for supporting research collaboration and outreach.