Held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on e-Science
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Time Session Room 8:30–10:00 Microsoft Azure for Research Training – AM
Trainer: Mateus Velloso, Microsoft
Princesa Isabel
10:00–10:30 Coffee Break
10:30–12:30 Microsoft Azure for Research Training – AM
Trainer: Mateus Velloso, Microsoft
Princesa Isabel
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30
Microsoft Azure for Research Training – PM
Trainer: Mateus Velloso, Microsoft
Princesa Isabel
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–18:00
Microsoft Azure for Research Training – PM
Trainer: Mateus Velloso, Microsoft
Princesa Isabel
18:00–20:00 Poster Session
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Time Session Room 8:30–10:00 Welcome
2014 Jim Gray eScience Award Announcement
Chair: Harold Javid, Microsoft Research
Opening Keynote
Princesa Leopoldina&José Bonifácio
10:00–10:30 Coffee Break
10:30–12:30
Data Acquisition
Chair: Chris Mentzel, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Presentations:
Data Analysis in Social Sensing: Perspectives and Opportunities
Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Building sensing applications with the Owl Platform
Yanyong Zhang, Rutgers University
SensorFly and Beyond: Knowledge Discovery through Ambient Sensing
Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
Teresa Cristina
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30
Panel: The Strategic Importance of eScience
Moderator: Harold Javid, Microsoft Research
Panelists:
- Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
- Jason Rhody, National Endowment for the Humanities
- Chris Mentzel, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Princesa Leopoldina&José Bonifácio
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–18:00
Microsoft Research-FAPESP Joint Research Center Projects
Chair: Daron Green, Microsoft Research
Presentations:
Making Sense of Environmental Data in a Cloud Forest
Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
E-phenology: combining new technologies to monitor plant phenology from leaves to ecosystems
Patricia Morellato, UNESP São Paulo State University at Rio Claro
Advances in Computer Science Towards an Understanding of Tipping Points within Tropical South American Biomes
Ricardo da Silva Torres, University fo Campinas
Teresa Cristina
18:00–19:00
Break
19:00–21:00
IEEE Reception Sponsored by Microsoft
DemoFest with Poster Session
Demos:
Large Scale Study of Urban Societies in Near Real Time
Thiago H. Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
SandDance
Daron Green, Microsoft Research
Holograph
Dave Brown, Microsoft Research
Cortana
Juliana Salles, Microsoft Research
WorldWide Telescope/Oculus
Jessika Gebauer, Microsoft Research
Tempe: Quick Answers from Large Data
Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research
CodaLab
Harold Javid, Microsoft Research
Microsoft Cloud Services for Machine Learning
Mateus Velloso, Microsoft
Live Ocean
Rob Fatland, Microsoft Research
Cloud Forest
Anna Izabel Tostes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Princesa Leopoldina&José Bonifácio -
Time Session
Room 8:30–10:00 Moderator: Daron Green, Microsoft Research
Panelists:
- Paul Watson, Newcastle University UK
- Antony John Williams, Royal Society of Chemistry
- Steve Kelling, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Princesa Leopoldina&José Bonifácio
10:00–10:30 Coffee Break
10:30–12:30 Joint Microsoft-IEEE e-Science Keynote
Chair: Claudia Medeiros, University of Campinas
Leveraging Computational (e)Social Science to address Grand Societal Challenges
Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University
Princesa Leopoldina&José Bonifácio
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30
Chair: Rob Fatland, Microsoft ResearchPresentations:
Bringing the Cloud Down to the Water: Towards Enabling a “Dynamic Information Framework” for Environmental Resource Decisions
Jeffrey Richey, University of Washington and Visiting Professor, University of São Paulo
Estimating the carbon stocks by optimizing LiDAR forest big data
Rosiane de Freitas Rodrigues, Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM)
The Birder Effect: data driven science for biodiversity conservation
Steve Kelling, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Teresa Cristina
15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–18:00 Data VisualizationChair: Danyel Fisher, Microsoft ResearchPresentations:
Exploratory Visualization for Big Data
Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research
“Touching” the Third Dimension—Exploration of Scientific Data on Surfaces
Tobias Isenberg, INRIA
Interactive Network Visualization
Benjamin Bach, INRIA
Teresa Cristina
20:00
Dinner
Princesa Leopoldina&José Bonifácio