The theme of the conference is the unified nature of computational science today, whose interdisciplinary methods transcend any specific scientific domain. In keeping with the recommendations of the International Review of UK Research Using High Performance Computing, the UK Strategic Framework for High End Computing, and the EPSRC's Action Plan, one aim of this conference is to help to build a computational science community within the UK, spanning all current, impending and anticipated future areas of activity.
Computational science is concerned with scientific research that makes use of high end computing, which we define as meaning the use of all forms of computing that take place off the desktop, from local clusters to federations of internationally distributed supercomputing grids. It draws on all forms of digital information processing, from compute, through visualisation to data storage, access and manipulation, to advanced networking and computational steering. To maintain an internationally leading position in computational science, we expect to build more effective collaborations with computer scientists and applied mathematicians in the future.
Therefore, speakers and participants at the CompSci meeting in June have been chosen for their broader outlook and shared vision for the future of computational science. The meeting is not intended to be "domain specific", or to be comprised of a selection of domain specific talks by experts in their own fields who have no interest in sharing their ideas and methods beyond those restricted confines. Rather, it is designed to foster the development of a new community of computational scientists to meet the increasingly exciting and technically demanding challenges of the future.
CompSci07 Organising Committee:
Prof. P. V. Coveney (Chair), University College London
Prof. James Annett, Bristol University and CSE, CCLRC Daresbury
Prof. Mike Cates, University of Edinburgh
Dr. Stephen Pickles, University of Manchester
Dr. John Brooke, University of Manchester
