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18 February 2010
The programme has been updated with timelines for live events.
18 February 2010
Keynote speakers have been finalised. Deatilas can be found on the keynotes page
3 February 2010
Application for International Winter School in Grid Computing 2010 was closed on 31 January. The applications received by this dateare currently being considered, with successful applicants being notified by 5th February.
05 January 2010
Application for International Winter School in Grid Computing 2010 is now open!
16 December 2009
Application for International Winter School in Grid Computing 2010 will be opening from 5 January 2010!
:: About the school
Inspired by ongoing success of International Summer School for Grid Computing (ISSGC), the Winter School provides the best of both worlds: proven curriculum and tutelage from the famous International Summer School and the flexibility of studying in online medium. Comparable in commitment and scope with the Summer School, the International Winter School in Grid Computing provides a unique online educational opportunity. Rigorous both in admission requirements and expected work commitment, IWSGC retains the majority of learner benefits from ISSGC while offering a high degree of flexibility.
The School will boost students' capabilities for research and innovation through the use of Summer School lectures, high-profile keynote speakers invited especially for the occasion, forum and chat discussions and tutorials. These activities will be delivered by leading authorities in the fields of advanced grid technology, applications of e-Science and distributed systems research.
The School will be held fully online from Monday 1st March 2010 to Friday 02 April 2010.
:: A day at the school
Participants need to devote 20 hours per week over the duration of the event. The recommended scheduling is 4 hours a day from Monday to Friday. If they miss a part of the course, participants can make up during week-ends (until Monday 9:00 GMT).
IWSGC'10 consists several live online events and synchronous work in between. In order to successfully complete the course, participants are obliged to attend at least 5 live events in their full duration.
Tutoring is provided during week-days, i.e. Monday to Friday. In order to get the most benefit from the course, participants are strongly recommended to devote the majority of their time during this period.
Total participant workload: 80 hours (4 hours per work day during four weeks) time dedicated to preparatory exercises (highly depending on participant background).
:: Target audience
We invite applications from enthusiastic and ambitious researchers who have recently started or are about to start working on Grid projects. Students may come from any country.
They may be planning to pioneer or enable new forms of e-Infrastructure, to engage in fundamental distributed systems research or to develop new methods in any discipline that depends on the emerging capabilities of e-Infrastructure.
We expect participants from computer science, computational science and any application discipline. The School will assume that students have diverse backgrounds and build on that diversity. However, in order to participate fully in the practical exercises you should be a confident programmer who will have fulfilled certain prerequisites."
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