1. The National e-Science Centre

2. eSI in Edinburgh

3. NeSC Roles National: help coordinate and lead the UK e- Science Programme Community building activities, Skill building through training events & support centre Regional: support & outreach International: Help establish the UK’s role International meetings, standardisation work & presentations Run the e-Science Institute Knowledge building through workshops and conferences Research visitors and events Undertake R&D projects To deliver reliable middleware To engage industry To stimulate the uptake of e-Science technology and methods Emphasis on scientific data management

4. Events at NeSC Past: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/past.html (All presentations can be found here)http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/past.html Monday,June 13,2005: Meeting for Core e-Science Programme Open Call/IRC projects Monday,June 13,2005: Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service Monday,June 6,2005: Designing for Usability in eScience: A suite of tutorials for Researchers Interested in Improving Usableness and Usefulness of their eScience tools Current: TODAY! Thu 16 Jun - Fri 17 Jun CampusGrid meeting http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/556/ http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/556/ Future: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/esi.html (Registration can be found here)http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/esi.html Mon 20 Jun - Tue 21 Jun: Networks for non-Networkers 2 (NFNN2) Wed 22 Jun - Thu 23 Jun: Grid Performance Workshop 2005 Thu 30 Jun - Fri 1, Jul: BiodiversityWorld GRID workshop ….

5. NeSC Training team Funded by: e-Science Core Programme, PPARC, GOSC, and EU grants within EGEE Team comprises: 4 trainers 2.5 developers 0.5 admin support 0.5 system support 0.5 dissemination Induction, Application Developer, sys. admin EGEE, NGS, OMII,… WSDL, WSRF, GT4, UML Requests invited!!! NGS Induction Course At NeSC Enabling, facilitating and delivering quality training in the UK and internationally