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| Subject: | 2nd Announcement: Target Conference "Probing Big Data for Answers" |
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| Date: | Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:58:08 +0100 |
| From: | Gijs Verdoes Kleijn <verdoes@ASTRO.RUG.NL> |
| Reply-To: | Gijs Verdoes Kleijn <verdoes@ASTRO.RUG.NL> |
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(I would be grateful if you could bring the following announcement also to the attention of colleagues within your organization)
Dear colleague,
I would like to update you about the international Target Conference "Probing Big Data for Answers" Data to be held in Groningen April 3-5.
A full conference program has been released on the conference website, www.targetconference.eu. This preliminary program consists of 11 sessions, plenary and parallel. It brings together speakers from across Europe. The conference cross-fertilizes across the borders of business, academia and government. It also bridges the traditional division between users, researchers and developers involved in Big Data projects. This is achieved by a coherent program hosting speakers from these diverse areas.
Please note:
- There is now limited space left for plenary contributed talks, parallel sessions and demonstration booths. The Program Organizing Committee evaluates applications for these as soon as possible following submission.
- The deadline for early-registration is March 5.
- You can find more information about the conference below and at the conference website, www.targetconference.eu.
On behalf of the POC,
Prof. Edwin A. Valentijn, Target coordinator
Target Conference: Probing Big Data for Answers
April 3rd
to 5th, 2012
Groningen, The Netherlands
www.targetconference.eu
We cordially invite you
to register for the international Target Conference:
Probing Big Data for Answers.
What
is the best paradigm and the optimal interface to
probe Big Data for straight answers in an ever
changing environment? This multi-disciplinary
conference is focused on the interface between users
and Big Data, with examples from current projects in
both the North of the Netherlands and across the
world. We invite representatives from academia and
both the business and public sectors engaged in
challenging research and development projects. The conference will be
held at the Hampshire Hotel-Plaza in Groningen,
The Netherlands from April 3rd to
5th,
2013. The conference will start April 3rd in the
afternoon and end April 5th at noon.
We invite participants
to additionally apply for contributed talks,
demonstration booths and to provide proposals for
parallel sessions.
Conference
topics
· Big
Data user interaction
· Big
Data visualization
· Big
Data technology challenges
· Big
Data Information System
A full
preliminary program is available at the conference
website.
Many of the
conference topics will be discussed in the context
of active Big Data projects including IJKdijk, Lifelines,
Smart Energy Grids, Sensor Cities, BBMRI-NL
Genome of the Netherlands, LOFAR,
ESA's Euclid Mission, XLDBs, Cultural
Heritage, eScience, Full-dome
Visualization (4k, 3D).
· Nico
Pals,
Board member, IJkdijk Foundation, Groningen,
Netherlands
· Paul
de Bakker, BBMRI-NL
Genome of the Netherlands, Professor of Genetic
Epidemiology and Bioinformatics, UMC Utrecht,
Netherlands
· Marco
de Vos, Managing
Director and Dpt. Director General, ASTRON, Dwingeloo,
Netherlands
· John
van Pol,
Founder and Managing Director, INCAS3, Assen,
Netherlands
· Jacob
de Vlieg,
Scientific Director & CEO, Netherlands eScience
center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
· Marco
Aiello,
Professor of Distributed Information Systems, Johann
Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen,
Netherlands
· Anders
Ynnermann, Head
of Visual Information Technology and Applications
(VITA), Department of Science and Technology,
University of Linköping, Sweden (tbc)
· Robin
Sip,
Founder and Director Mirage 3D, The Hague, Netherlands
· Luigi
Brochard,
Distinguished Engineer for High Performance Computing,
IBM, France
· Martin
Kersten,
Professor, National Research Center for Mathematics
and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, Netherlands
· Pedro
Osuna,
Head of the Science Archives Team, ESA, Spain
A full description of
keynote speakers and their presentations is available
here
on the conference website.
The conference brings
together key players from commercial and academic
research institutes with Big Data stakeholders.
These include business, creative industry, academia,
policy makers, investors and funding agencies.
Target will present its diverse Big Data portfolio
that transcends traditional borders between academic
disciplines and the industry.
We invite you to
register with the following options:
· apply for a contributed
talk
· apply for a
demonstration booth
· propose a parallel
session / BoF
Early
registration ends March 5, 2013
More information about
registration, abstract submission, program and
logistic is available at the conference website:
http://www.targetconference.eu
For any request of
information, please contact the LOC: target_conference@astro.rug.nl
For more information
about Target, please visit http://www.rug.nl/target
On behalf of the Program Organizing Committee,
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