[open-science] Fwd: FW: London Citizen Cyberscience Summit, 2-3 September 2010

Wed Aug 11 14:14:45 UTC 2010

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> Would be great if some folks from this group were able to represent
> the open data is science WG at this event in London!
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> Can anyone make it? Worth asking if there's any room for a brief slot?
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I have registered. It clashes slightly with Science Online

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> Jonathan
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> London Citizen Cyberscience Summit
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>  2-3 September 2010, King’s College London
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>  The world’s first summit on citizen cyberscience will be held at
> King’s College London on 2-3 September.
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> Citizen cyberscience is a growing trend where ordinary people use
> their computers and the world wide web to contribute in meaningful
> ways to an increasingly wide range of scientific challenges.
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> Citizen cyberscience activity takes place all over the world and by
> its very nature participants very rarely – if ever – meet. This event
> will showcase a cross-section of these projects and will provide a
> platform for scientists and citizens to share their thoughts on the
> impact of citizen cyberscience face-to-face.
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> The summit will be hosted by King’s College London, and is organised
> jointly by the Citizen Cyberscience Centre, based at CERN in Geneva;
> the Centre for e-Research at King’s; Queen Mary, University of London;
> Imperial College London; University College London and GridRepublic.
> It is supported by the Shuttleworth Foundation, the Joint Information
> Systems Committee (JISC), e-ScienceTalk and Microsoft Research.
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> Confirmed speakers include David Anderson, director of the SETI at home
> project, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of Berkeley; George
> Dyson, historian and philosopher of science and author of ‘Darwin
> Among the Machines’; and Myles Allen, head of ClimatePrediction.net at
> Oxford University.
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> There are currently more than 100 active citizen cyberscience projects
> - many address topical themes, such as modelling climate change
> (ClimatePrediction.net) or simulating the spread of malaria
> (MalariaControl.net). King’s staff will demonstrate how citizen
> cyberscience can be applied to the cultural heritage sector through
> the East London Theatre Archive project (elta-project.org).
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> The event will be of interest to both amateur and professional
> scientists, to people who care about the impact of science on society,
> and of society on science, and to those working in the digital
> humanities and cultural heritage.
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> The Citizen Cyberscience Summit will take place on 2-3 September 2010
> in the Anatomy Theatre & Museum at King’s College London’s Strand
> Campus. To see the full programme and to book tickets, see
> www.citizencyberscience.net/summit. The event will also be webcast.
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> Anna Ashton
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> Communications & Administrative Officer
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> Centre for e-Research
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> King's College London
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> London, WC2B 5RL
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> Tel: 020 7848 2689
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> Fax: 020 7848 1989
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