The 9th IEEE International Conference on e-Science was held in Beijing on Oct. 22-25, which is the first time that the conference was held in China.
The IEEE e-Science conference was designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest research and product/tool developments and to highlight related activities from around the world.
Hosted by the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CNIC), the conference attracted more than 300 scientists and students from about 16 countries or regions. Five workshops and 3 tutorials were held during the conference. More than 70 oral progress and special reports were arranged.
The conference focused on the following themes: arts, humanities and e-social science, bioinformatics and health, physical sciences and engineering, climate & earth sciences, data management and digital repositories, research tools, workflow and systems, novel infrastructure, education and e-science practice.
During the conference, the best Student Paper Award was awarded to Ph.D candidate WANG Yuwei from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Student Innovation Award to Ph.D candidate YANG Ruan.
IEEE International Conference on e-Science, started in 2004, is one of the most important international conferences on e-Science. CNIC started to prepare the conference in 2011 when it won the bid to hold the 9th IEEE International Conference on e-Science. The 10th IEEE International Conference on e-Science will be held in Brazil on October 20-24, 2014.
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