May 12, 2010 - May 14, 2010

Latin American Faculty Summit 2010

Location: Guarujá, Brazil

Wednesday, May 12

Time	Session
10:15–11:00	OPENING CEREMONY Event Opening Presenters Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz – Scientific Director, FAPESP, Brazil Michel Levy – General Manager, Microsoft Brazil Carlos Alberto Aragão de Carvalho Filho – President, CNPq, Brazil Tony Hey – Corporate Vice President, External Research, Microsoft Research
11:00–12:00	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Science and Technology in Brazil \| slides Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz – Scientific Director, São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP), Brazil
12:00–12:30	Group Photo
12:30–14:00	Lunch
14:00–15:00	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Scaling Science to the Cloud \| slides Tony Hey – Corporate Vice President, External Research, Microsoft Research
15:00–16:00	KEYNOTE PANEL SESSION Science, Technology, and Innovation Collaboration in Latin America and the Caribbean: Specific Actions Panel Discussion Facilitator: Prof. Carlos Alberto Aragão de Carvalho Filho – President, Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil \| slides Panelist Speakers: Tomás Viveros García – Director, Research Networks, CONACYT, Mexico \| slides Rodrigo Santos – President, Latin American Center of Studies in Informatics (CLEI), Argentina \| slides Alice Abreu – Director, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean International Council for Science \| slides
16:00–17:00	RESEARCH TALK Fighting HIV with Machine Learning and HPC \| slides David Heckerman – Distinguished Scientist, Senior Director of eScience, Microsoft Research
17:00–17:30	Refreshment Break
17:30–18:15	RESEARCH TALK Global Climate Modelling: The Challenge to Develop a World-Class Model in Brazil \| slides Carlos Nobre – Senior Scientist, National Institute of Space Research (INPE), Brazil
18:15–19:00	RESEARCH TALK Microsoft Research: Ensuring Microsoft’s Future \| slides Henrique Malvar – Distinguished Engineer, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Redmond
20:30–23:00	Welcome Reception and Dinner

Thursday, May 13

Time	Session
8:30–13:00	PARALLEL TRACK SESSIONS
8:30–9:30	Computer Science Research Track Social Media in Enterprises \| slides Jonathan Grudin – Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
	“Computing in e-Science” Research Track #1 Virtualization of Science and Scholarship \| slides Prof. S. George Djorgovski – Professor of Astronomy, CalTech, United States
9:30–10:30	Computer Science Research Track The F# Programming Language and Scientific Computing Andrew Kennedy – Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
	“Computing in e-Science” Research Track #1 eScience Applications E-Farms, a two-way road for small farms to the networked world \| slides Claudia Bauzer Medeiros – Professor, Institute of Computing, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Collaborating in Disaster Relief Efforts \| slides Marcos Borges – Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Biodiversity Databases and Information Systems: A Case Study of the Brazilian Sinbiota and its Perspectives for the Next Ten Years \| slides Carlos Alfredo Joly – Professor, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
	Bridging the Gaps: Satellites to Science and Desktop to the Cloud \| slides Catharine van Ingen – Partner Architect, Microsoft Research
10:30–11:00	Refreshment Break
11:00–12:00	Computer Science Research Track Research at MSR’s Communication and Collaboration Group Dinei Florencio – Researcher, Microsoft Research
	“Computing in e-Science” Research Track #1 Examples of Mobile Point of Care Diagnostics and New Modalities of Mobile UI \| slides Kristin Tolle – Director, External Research, Microsoft Research Mobile Health: The Opportunity of Mobile Technologies to Support Public Health in Peru Walter Curioso, M.D., M.P.H. – Research Professor, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Affiliate Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, University of Washington, United States
	“Computing in e-Science” Research Track #2 Results from an Atlantic Rainforest Micrometeorology Sensor Network Pilot Study Rob Fatland – Program Manager, Microsoft Research \| slides Humberto da Rocha – Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil \| slides
12:00–13:00	Computer Science Research Track Computer Science Applications Low Cost Computer Vision Systems for Quality Evaluation of Tortillas in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Domingo Mery – Professor, Department of Computer Science, Catholic University of Chile, Chile \| slides Automatic Screening of Diabetic Retinopathies: IT in the fight against preventable blindness \| slides Jacques Wainer – Professor, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Supporting Informal Interaction in a Hospital through Impromptu Social Networking \| slides Jesus Favela – Professor, Ensenada Center for Higher Education Scientific Research (CICESE), Mexico
	Transforming the Web Experience: Breakthrough Progressive Rendering Technologies for Fluid Visualization of Large Data Sets \| slides Beatriz Díaz Acosta – Test Manager, Live Labs Seadragon, Microsoft
	Bionergy Research: Integrating Agronomic Traits, Gene Networks and Carbon Partition for the Development of an Energy Cane \| slides Prof. Glaucia Mendes Souza – Associate Professor, BIOEN Program Coordinator, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Brazil
13:00–14:45	Lunch
15:00–16:00	RESEARCH TALK (presented via Live Meeting) Global Carbon-Climate Feedback and Next-Generation Earth System Modelling Prof. Stephen Emmott – Head of Computational Science, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Professor, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
16:00–17:00	PLENARY SESSION Building the Future of Information and Communication Technologies in Latin America Jose Carlos Maldonado – Professor, University of São Paulo (ICMC-USP); President, Brazilian Computing Society (SBC), Brazil \| slides Genoveva Vargas-Solar – President Mexican Computing Society (SMCC), Mexico \| slides
17:00–17:30	Refreshment Break
17:30–18:30	PLENARY SESSION Collaborating with Microsoft Research \| slides Daron Green, General Manager – External Research, Microsoft Research
20:00–22:00	Social Event and Dinner Show

Friday, May 14

Time	Session
8:30–11:30	DEMOFEST (ONSITE RESEARCH DEMOS)
8:30–9:30	FAPESP SESSION Computer Science Research in the State of São Paulo This session is intended mostly for graduate students and is about research opportunities in the State of São Paulo. Speakers: Jose Carlos Maldonado – President Brazilian Computing Society (SBC), ICMC – University of São Paulo, Brazil Claudia Bauzer Medeiros – Institute of Computing, State University of Campinas, Brazil
10:30–11:00	Refreshment Break
11:30–13:30	CLOSING PLENARY PRESENTATIONS Chair: Tony Hey – Corporate Vice President, External Research, Microsoft Research Global Jet Watch: A Globally-Distributed Project to Monitor the Expulsion of Matter from a Black Hole Katherine Blundell – Professor of Astrophysics, Oxford University, United Kingdom Environmental eScience, The Fourth Paradigm, and the End of Stationarity Jeff Dozier – Professor, School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California at Santa Barbara, United States \| slides
13:30–15:00	Farewell Lunch
15:00	The Event Ends