Portuguese – Spanish Workshop on Research and Education Networks and E-Science

Agenda

VIDEOS: The event videos are available here

Date: May 7th 2018 (from 10:30 until 17:00)

Place: Sala de Pinturas, Colegio Arzobispo Fonseca, Universidad de Salamanca
Calle Fonseca, 4 - 37002 Salamanca

You can find information about how to get to the venue at https://www.rediris.es/jt/jt2018/localizacion/, and about hotels located in that area at https://www.rediris.es/jt/jt2018/alojamiento/

 

AGENDA

10:00 - 10:30 Registration

OPENING PRESENTATION

Moderator: Dr. Alberto Pérez - Director of RedIRIS (Spanish National Research and Education Network) at Red.es

10:30 - 11:00 Augusto Burgueño, Head of Unit "eInfrastructure & Science cloud" at European Commission Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology - PPTX (0.5 MB)

SESSION I: NETWORKS FOR E-SCIENCE

Moderator: Dr. Alberto Pérez - Director of RedIRIS (Spanish National Research and Education Network) at Red.es

11:00 - 11:30 GÉANT, THE PAN-EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORK

Annabel Grant, Partners Relations, GÉANT - PPTX (21 MB)

  • GÉANT services (networks, security, Trust & Identity, cloud) as a key element of European e-science
  • Coordination of GÉANT with other international research and education networks: the case of the BELLA project
  • Coordination of research and education networks with other e-infrastructures within the EOSC framework

11:30 - 12:00 COFFEE-BREAK

12:00 - 13:15 RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKS IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN

Roundtable about NREN services, opportunities and challenges, and Spanish-portuguese collaboration

Moderator: Esther Robles, Deputy Director for Communication Networks at RedIRIS

Participants:

  • João Nuno Ferreira - General Coordinator of the National Scientific Computing Unit of Foundation for Science and Technology Portugal (FCT) and Portuguese Representative at e-IRG - PPTX (2.5 MB)
  • Dr. Alberto Pérez - Director of RedIRIS (Spanish National Research and Education Network) at Red.es - PPTX (5.1 MB)
  • Dr. Ignacio López - Deputy Director General of CESGA (Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia) - PDF (26 MB)
  • Pedro Alberto - Assistant professor at University of Coimbra - Coordinator of the Laboratory for Advanced Computing and the national member in PRACE - PPT (3,9 MB)
  • It includes 15’ of open microphone

13:15 - 14:15 COCKTAIL LUNCH at the courtyard of the Colegio Arzobispo Fonseca, Universidad de Salamanca

SESSION II: E-INFRASTRUCTURES IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN

14:15 - 15.30
Roundtable about e-infrastructures, their role, funding and access policies; about the impact of EU and national policies in this field (including EOSC and big data projects); about challenges like storage and data curation; and about collaboration between Portugal and Spain in this area (including the creation of the Minho Advanced Computing Center - MAAC)

Moderator: João Nuno Ferreira, General Coordinator of the National Scientific Computing Unit of Foundation for Science and Technology Portugal (FCT) and Portuguese Representative at e-IRG

Participants:

  • Dr. Sergi Girona - Operations Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Manager of RES (Red Española de Supercomputación), Vice-Chair of the PRACE Council and Spanish representative at e-IRG - PPTX (4.1 MB)
  • Lino Santos - Security and Advanced Computing Manager dealing with the MAAC Project at the National Scientific Computing Unit of Foundation for Science and Technology Portugal (FCT) - PPTX (25.1 MB)
  • Dra. Isabel Campos - Senior Researcher at CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) and member of the High Level Expert Group on European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) - PDF (4.2 MB)
  • Jorge Gomes - Senior Researcher at LIP (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics), and member of INCD (a national distributed computing infrastructure) - PDF (2.5 MB)
  • It includes 15’ of open microphone

15:30 - 15:50 COFFEE-BREAK

SESSION III: E-SCIENCE PROJECTS IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN

15:50 - 17:15
Roundtable of e-science project managers, about their projects, their needs regarding e-infrastructures, their user feedback, and cases of e-science projects with Portuguese-Spanish cooperation

Moderator: Antonio Saravia, Deputy Director for Project Management at RedIRIS

Participants:

  • Prof. Paulo Freitas, Deputy Director General - INL International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory - PDF (0.9 MB)
  • Dr. Juan Miguel González-Aranda, Head of Unit Nanotech & e-Science, Ministry Economy, Industry & Competitivenes; LifeWatch ERIC Chief Technology Officer and Spanish representative at e-IRG - PDF (29 MB)
  • Dr. Mario Martínez, Head of the Experimental Division at IFAE (Instituto de Física de Altas Energías), and manager of the National Program of Particle Physics - PDF (12 MB)
  • Marta Casas - Innovation Researcher at Atlantic International Research Centre (Air Centre) - PDF (100 MB)
  • Romina Royo - Technical coordinator of computational genomics infrastructure (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) - PDF (3,8 MB)
  • It includes 15’ of open microphone

SOCIAL EVENTS AFTER THE MEETING

18:15 - 19:15 5th RedIRIS Run (approx. 6 Km)

20:30 - 22:30 Cocktail - Dinner of the RedIRIS Workshop

The dinner will take place at the restaurant Taste Discoveries El Monje, at the hotel Hospes Palacio de San Esteban 5*, located at the Concilio de Trento Square, in the middle of the old town in Salamanca

Dinner hosted by:

Attendees of the Portuguese - Spanish workshop on e-science are invited to join this dinner.

They can also attend the RedIRIS Workshop (Tuesday morning - in Spanish) and/or the RedIRIS Annual Event (from Tuesday afternoon until Thursday afternoon - in Spanish).
More information: https://www.rediris.es/jt/jt2018/