1. The e-Science Institute http://www.esi.ac.uk http://www.esi.ac.uk Dr Anna Kenway, Deputy Director September 2005

2. Slide 2 Mission To provide an international centre of research excellence to stimulate invention and exploitation of e-Science methods and technologies. In comparison an early part of the mission was to build a community …

3. Slide 3 Activity To achieve this eSI runs two principal types of activity: Research meetings –Conferences –Workshops –Schools –Training Visitors programme

4. Slide 4 History Started in August 2001 Funding of £ 0.5M p.a. from the joint Research Councils through the DTI Initially for three years Extended for two more years to July 2006

5. Slide 5 Started in August 2001 Funding of £ 0.5M p.a. from the joint Research Councils through the DTI Initially for three years Extended for two more years to July 2006 History

6. Slide 6 History

7. Slide 7 History Since then we have: –Run an average of > 7 events a month (for a total of more than 350 events) –Had more than 10,000 delegates through these doors –Hosted 43 visitors including 7 long-term researchers Sometime in April 2005 we had our 24,000 th delegate day

8. Slide 8 Delegates Geographic Origin

9. Slide 9 Delegates Sector

10. Slide 10 Website A popular resource –There are over 3000 documents (talks, presentations and meeting reports) on the NeSC Website –Downloads of these documents form 97% of our (non robot) 250 thousand website hits per month –More than 9000 hits a day transferring around 8000 files and 1.8 GB of data

11. Slide 11 Website Requestor Origin

12. Slide 12 Responsive Mode Initially, the community requirement was for a rapid response to requests for meetings and workshops –We need a meeting next month to… Many opportunities for –community building –outreach to new communities –encouraging interdisciplinary dialogue

13. Slide 13 Thematic Mode The community is maturing –e.g. training needs have UK training team eSI can develop a thematic mode programme that concentrates on in-depth and sustained investigation of a topic

14. Slide 14 Themes http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/themes/index.htm Two active at any time Run for a period of 6 to 12 months Link together a series of workshops, talks and visitors Led by a theme leader Guidance from the Science Advisory Board

15. Slide 15 Theme Scope ImmediateLong-term Research issues PracticeTheory Pipeline Newbies Established Experts Participants Universities Industry Science Arts & Humanities National International

16. Slide 16 Theme 1 Information Services for Smart Decision Making (Dr Jennifer Schopf)Information Services for Smart Decision Making

17. Slide 17 Theme 2 Exploiting Diverse Sources of Scientific Data (Malcolm Atkinson)Exploiting Diverse Sources of Scientific Data

18. Slide 18 Call for the next theme is about to happen… Questions ?