IT for Research Day 2019

Welcome Coffee (10:00 – 10:30)                          

Opening Session (10:30 – 11:30)

• Opening Remarks
  Konrad Jaggi, Outreach at SWITCH
• Welcome from the University of Fribourg 
  Rolf Ingold, Vice-Rector for Research
• Scientific IT as an Enabler at the University of Fribourg
  Alexandre Gachet, director of IT services
• The microscopic imaging pipeline
  Dimitri Vanhecke, Head microscopy, Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg

National Shared Infrastructures  (11:30 – 12:30)

• Update on long-term storage (LTS) as foundation for research data
  Ann Harding, project leader LTS SWITCH
• Large-Scale Data Storage at Swiss Universities
  Doron William, solution architect SWITCHengines
• SWISSUbase – going to the next level
  Stefan Bürli and Bojana Tasic, project leaders
• Research Data Connectome
  Sebastian Sigloch, innovation manager SWITCH

LUNCH (12:30 – 13:30)

Service Perspectives – Institutional and National  (13:30 – 15:00)

• The Jupyter Notebook Project @ EPFL
  Patrick Jermann, executive director CEDE
• openRDM.swiss – towards research data management as a service
  Henry Lütcke, Project leader openRDM.swiss, ID Scientific IT Services at ETH Zürich
• Manage your research data – with an innovative model
  Pierre-Yves Burgi, project leader and deputy CIO at University Geneva
  André Jelicic, Business Analyst of the DLCM project

COFFEE BREAK (15:00 – 15:30)

New developments (15:30 – 17:00 approx.)

• SWITCHengines for Research – GPU, Containers and Research Requirements
  Jens-Christian Fischer, teamleader SWITCH  
• Use cases from Data Science
  Radhakrishna Achanta, Senior Data Scientist at SDSC
• Integrating Data in the Cloud
  Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Professor at University of Fribourg
  
  
• Closing Remarks
  Konrad Jaggi