PRAGMA 33 Program

Sunday, October 15th

Time Activity
17:30 - 19:00 PRAGMA Welcome Reception
Venue: The Terrace, Southbank Beer Garden 30BA Stanley Plaza, South Brisbane, South Bank.


Monday, October 16th, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre

Time Activity
8:45-8:55 Welcome statement
9:00-10:00 Keynote
Lee Belbin - The Atlas of Living Australia: Sharing biodiversity information to inform research, policy and operational outcomes
Cedric Robillot - eReefs: Delivering information about Great Barrier Reef from catchment to ocean
10:00-10:30 Phil Papadopoulos - PRAGMA update: Set context for the workshop and some updates from the working groups
10:30-11:00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
Group photo
11:00-11:30 Working group and Expedition updates (6 talks of 5 minutes each) -- session chair Weicheng Huang
11:30-12:00 Lightning talks -- session chairs Che Huang and Minh Dinh
12:00-13:00 LUNCH BREAK
13:00-14:20 Three working group meetings in parallel -- break out meetings
Resources working group -- PRAGMA Main Room: P10
Telescience/Geoscience working group -- PRAGMA Breakout Room 1: Concord Boardroom
Bioscience and cyber learning working group -- PRAGMA Breakout Room 2: P8
14:20-14:50 COFFEE/TEA BREAK -- [Posters sessions starts]
14:50-15:30 Poster session -- chairs: Che Huang and Minh Dinh
15:30-16:30 Working group meeting continues
16:30-17:00 Demo session - Part 1 -- Demo session chair -- Nurul Hashimah Ahamed Hassain Malim
Shava Smallen, "Increasing usability of the PRAGMA cloud testbed" (20 min)
Nadya Williams, "Building Virtual Cluster on Comet", (10min)
18:00 - 21:00 Conference Dinner
Venue: River City Cruises, Sunset Dinner Cruise Jetty A South Bank Parklands on the river right in front of the Wheel of Brisbane.


Tuesday, October 17th, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre

Time Activity
9:00-10:30 Plenary Session chair - David Abramson
Peter Scarth - Solving wicked problems for fun and profit: how do we maximise societal value from our data and compute resources
Sandra Gesing - Science Gateway Overview
PRAGMA and Science Gateway Intersection Panel Q&A
Q&A Panelists: Jason Haga, Shava Smallen, Sandra Gesing, Peter Scarth, Dan Katz.
10:30-11:00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11:00-11:45 Demo Session - Part 2, session chair - Yoshiyuki Kido
Nurul Hashimah Ahamed Hassain Malim, "Cheminformatics at Universiti Sains Malaysia"
Sarah Richmond, "An innovative tool for mapping and modelling species distributions: the Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory"
Jason Haga, "MedThaiSAGE: Visualization of Thai Medical Research Data on Large Tiled Display Walls"
11:45-12:00 PRIME Project update - Jason Haga
12:00-14:00 LUNCH BREAK and PRAGMA Steering committee meeting
14:00-14:20 Update on PRAGMA booth activities in eResearch Australasia 2017 -- Jason Haga and Nadya Williams
14:20-14:50 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
14:50-16:00 Three working group meetings in parallel -- break out meetings
Resources working group -- PRAGMA Main Room: P10
Telescience/Geoscience working group -- PRAGMA Breakout Room 1: Concord Boardroom
Bioscience and cyber learning working group -- PRAGMA Breakout Room 2: P11
16:00-17:00 PRAGMA-33 wrap-up - (Working Group Summaries, Steering Committee Summaries) -- Peter Arzberger
Invitation to PRAGMA 34 -- Jason Haga & Yoshiyuki Kido
17:00 End of the workshop - eResearch Australasia Reception