RCC will be out in force at this month’s Brisbane-based eResearch Australasia conference, 21–25 October.
RCC will share QCIF’s exhibition booth at the conference, being held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, and RCC staff will take part in talks and other sessions.
Visit the RCC/QCIF booth at #eResAU2019 to discuss our services for the first time—or get an update—and enter our door prize.
On Tuesday, 22 October, 12:05pm–12:50pm, RCC Chief Technology Officer Jake Carroll will give a keynote address at the conference alongside Andrew Underwood, field Chief Technology Officer, HPC and Artificial Intelligence, Dell Technologies, Asia Pacific and Japan. They will present the work they collaborated on in relation to UQ’s HPC Wiener. Their talk is titled: “Unlocking Scientific Discovery with a Confluence of Simulation, Modelling and Machine Learning.
Also on Tuesday, 22 October, RCC Software Developer Zane van Iperen will present a talk (4:10pm–4:30pm) about his work on embedded Nimrod and enabling easy high throughput computing in HPC environments. Meanwhile, RCC Director Prof. David Abramson will discuss CAMERA, RCC’s new framework to simplify digital instrument-based research (5:10pm–5:30pm).
Prof. Abramson will also act as chair on Wednesday, 23 October, 11:20am–12:40pm, for a curated exhibitor session, featuring speakers from Amazon Web Services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell Technologies.
Three RCC-sponsored UQ Graduate Digital Research Fellows will present their projects as lightning talks at eResAU2019 on Wednesday, 23 October, 12pm–12:40pm. Aparna Gopal, Louise Martin-Chew and Dilrabo Tosheva will also present a group poster at the conference’s poster reception on Tuesday, 22 October, 5:30pm–7pm.
RCC eResearch Analyst Dr Nick Hamilton will present a talk with Loretta Davis of AeRO about the rapid growth of Hacky Hours and a national initiative to uplift eResearch support skills and encourage community-driven collaboration. Join their talk on Wednesday, 23 October, 2pm–2:20pm.
Dr Siddeswara Guru of RCC and TERN will co-present a Birds of a Feather session about the case for national coordination in spatial information on Wednesday, 23 October, 3pm–3:20pm. Following this discussion (after afternoon tea), Guru will act as chair of a life sciences session, 4:10pm–5:30pm, which RCC’s Dr Jeff Christiansen will also be a part of. Jeff will present the Australian Bioinformatics Commons (BioCommons) as an exemplar of international engagement in research infrastructure from 4:10pm–4:30pm.
Jeff will also act as session chair for the biomedical data and data ethics stream on Thursday, 24 October, 11:20am–12:40pm.
