Events

From 31 May to 2 June in Hamburg will be held international conference of ISC. It is Europe’s largest meeting of environmental engineering supercomputing is known for its world-class discussions between specialists from various fields of science and industry leaders. IT Environment scientists from our country will be represented by the Consortium Polish Optical Internet; PIONIER network operator, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, the exhibition accompanying the conference prepared a special booth presenting the latest Polish ICT work.

A unique opportunity to visit the operating room while doctors work! Have a look at photos from the operating table of the Department of Otolaryngology of Poznań University of Medical Sciences. On May 27 the head of the facility – professor Witold Szyfter conducted operations observed by the viewers of the forty countries from different parts of the world. Modern audio, video-conferencing equipment in HD quality, as well as the access to broadband optical network PIONIER during operations, were provided the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center.

“ICT for open access to scientific information” was the motto will be held May 28 at the Brussels headquarters of the Promotion of Science, Academy of Sciences meeting with experts of the European Commission. The event, part of the project “PolSCA Meetings” will also be attended by representatives of Polish research teams, among them Dr. Cezary Mazurek with PSNC.

On 27 of May the LION Foundation is organizing the fifth world videoconference with otolaryngology and neurological surgeries. The essence of the project is an interactive simultaneous live transmission from the operating tables of various parts of the world. Interactive, because the payee will be able to question doctors by moderators.

Problems faced by entrepreneurs and scientists who set up cooperation in the commercialization of research results, the commercial value of the results of scientific projects, willingness of Polish research centers to supply products with both scientific and market value and the willingness of enterprises to take advantage of this research in their business. There were a lot of topics discussed at the conference in Gdańsk Science and Technology Park, because although the idea of commercialization of science is not controversial, it still faces many challenges.

Digital culture and all the opportunities granted to users by new media are leading to reflection on the role and future activities of memory institutions in this extremely interesting times. This cultural transformation were the main topic of “Transforming Culture in the digital age” conference which was held on 14th – 16th of April in Estonian city Tartu.

“Science is a source of innovation” – Professor Jan Węglarz argued during his speech on the second day of the Economic Forum of the Poznań Agglomeration. According to the director of PSNC Poznań agglomeration is a center of innovation in Poland, but the conditions provided to Polish science lead to her slow decline. On the evidence of those powerful words professor quoted data on government funding of scientific research centers in the country. Despite assurances by politicians to increase budgetary spending for this purpose up to 2% of GDP by 2013, the budget for education in 2010-2011 was only 0.42% of GDP.

The second edition of the International Conference GeeCON associated with the language JAVA, which took place last week in Poznan, ended in organizational success as well as for the Poznan Supercomputing Network Center.

This is how the second edition of the Conference Polish Java User Group – GeeCON 2010 in Poznań has been entitled. This meeting was focused on Java and Java Virtual Machine based technologies, with special attention to dynamic languages like Groovy and Ruby. PSNC was a key partner of GeeCON conference, supporting organizers with its knowledge, infrastructure and experience.

Creating the investment attractiveness of the Poznań agglomeration, supporting the development of economic co-operation and the exchange of experiences between local governments are the aims of the third edition of the Economic Forum of the Poznań Agglomeration. The annual meetings are devoted to the issues of stimulating investments in the Poznań agglomeration in the long run, EURO 2012 investments or technological innovations in the region.

On 14-15 of April 2010 in Kiev, Ukraine the IV conference “Library and Book in the Context of Time” was held. The conference scope joins scientific topics with the information useful for practitioners. The main organizer of this conference is the National Parliament Library of Ukraine. In this year the main topic of the conference was “Libraries activities on the preservation of national cultural heritage”.

Internet in Poland is the development of democracy – claims the Department for Information Technology Development
of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration. This is due to the fact that Poles are increasingly using the network to express their views and to organize themselves. In fact, this year many long expected projects are going to be launched in order to increase the infrastructure development of information society.