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RCC seminar series to feature all women speakers
In possibly an Australian first, a computing seminar series will feature an all-female line-up of speakers.
Of the 14 speakers, 12 are confirmed for this year's RCC seminar series, including:
- Dr Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist and Intel's only female fellow, the company's highest technical rank
- Prof. Ewa Deelman, Research Director at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute
- Maxine Brown, Director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Speakers' topics are still being discussed and will be added to the RCC seminars webpage once confirmed. Read more
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ITnews features QBI's use of technology
ITnews published a story on 30 May about the Queensland Brain Institute's use of technology in dealing with the large amounts of data its researchers produce.
The article, titled 'Inside the tech supporting the bleeding edge of neuroscience', mentions QBI's potential use of cloud computing via QRIScloud, and UQ's MeDiCI (Metropolitan Data Caching Infrastructure) storage fabric, recently prototyped by RCC.
QBI Senior IT Manager Jake Carroll is quoted as saying: “As things develop we could move certain workloads that suit into the QRIScloud and use the services of the Research Computing Centre (RCC) as well to augment our capability. It really depends upon the workload and practicality of data movement compared to the locality of the data generating instrument.”
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RCC Director to speak at QUESTnet
RCC Director Prof. David Abramson will present at the QUESTnet 2016 conference on storage fabric MeDiCI, UQ's Metropolitan Data Caching Infrastructure. His talk is on Thursday, 7 July, 12pm–12:30pm.
RCC collaborator Jake Carroll of QBI will also present at QUESTnet. His talk on Wednesday, 6 July, 11am–11:30am, is on UQ's OMERO data management system and titled, "Solving terascale imaging curation and processing challenges". OMERO (Open Microscopy Remote Objects) is a modern client-server software platform for visualising, managing, and annotating scientific image data.
QUESTnet is a conference covering the full spectrum of ICT used in higher education and its audience are technologists who work in that sector. This year's conference is being held on the Gold Coast, 5–8 July. Full program
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Fran Berman seminar video now on YouTube
Missed out on seeing Professor Francine Berman, the US lead of the global Research Data Alliance, speak at UQ on Friday, 27 May, about building a sustainable ecosystem for data-driven research? Never fear, RCC has posted a recording of the seminar on YouTube.
More information about the seminar | Watch the video
![Professor Fran Berman](https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b63d1ccba1962da643e65ac65/images/ada250c6-a9b2-4320-acfc-2fdadb4b5a53.jpg)
Prof. Fran Berman presenting her seminar at UQ on Friday, 27 May. Photo by Dr Nick Hamilton (RCC/QCIF).
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Join RCC's Genomics Virtual Lab team
RCC is seeking a new recruit to join its GVL team as a full-time eResearch Analyst.
The role is to support the needs of researchers specialising in the field of microbial genomics.
The successful candidate will have a track record in bioinformatics, including supporting researchers working with high throughput sequencing data, and an ability to work closely with them to create solutions and pass on technical skills and knowledge.
Applications close Friday, 24 June. Click here for the full job description and to apply.
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July's Tech Talk to focus on security in the cloud
Date: Friday, 8 July ![Prof. Richard Sinnott](https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b63d1ccba1962da643e65ac65/images/116fb05d-e06e-47e0-a2a8-83044f1d4699.jpg)
Time: 3–4pm AEST
Brisbane venue: Room 505A, level 5, Axon Building (47), UQ St Lucia Campus (or join remotely)
Next month’s Tech Talk will focus on security in the cloud with Prof. Richard Sinnott, Director of eResearch at the University of Melbourne (pictured), and David Blockow from Data to Decisions CRC (Cooperative Research Centre), lined up to speak. Register
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Doing urban research? Join UQ's AURIN masterclass
UQ researchers can get hands-on with urban data at the AURIN workshop on the St Lucia Campus on Friday, 15 July, 9am–12pm.
The free masterclass aims to help researchers and analysts become proficient in using AURIN’s urban planning platform.
AURIN streamlines access to more than 1,600 data sets and 100 analytical tools useful for urban planning and research. The AURIN Workbench and portal provides online access to open source e-research tools to interrogate, model and visualise these data. Read more
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Be part of the Winter School meet-up for students and ECRs
COMBINE, a bioinformatics and computational biology organisation for Australian students and early career researchers, is inviting students and ECRs to a social meet-up during this year’s UQ-based Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology.
The meet-up will occur at UQ's Pizza Cafe after vice president Leah Roberts' (pictured) talk about COMBINE on Thursday, 7 July, 5pm.
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New QRIScloud Systems Engineer joins RCC
Denis Lujanski (pictured) has joined RCC as a QRIScloud Systems Engineer.
Denis will assist research support staff with operations, development and maintenance of QRIScloud and will assist researchers by providing end-user technical support.
Read more
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"Unless you maintain your tools, they'll wither and die"
An ITEE honours student has learnt the importance of maintaining software tools during his work with RCC this year.
Zane Van Iperen (pictured) is working on an optimisation-workflow project for his thesis, with RCC Director David Abramson as his supervisor.
Zane’s goal is to integrate and demonstrate the use of multi-objective optimisation in scientific workflows.
Read more
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RCC co-hosts Brisbane's Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint
RCC and QCIF hosted this year’s Brisbane Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint, a two-day hackathon for open source science held 2–3 June.
RCC/QCIF eResearch Analyst Team Leader Belinda Weaver co-ordinated further development of Library Carpentry material during the Sprint, roping in a global team of more than 20 people from South Africa, USA, the Netherlands, Canada and Australia, plus the project originators in the UK. Read more
![Brisbane Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint](https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b63d1ccba1962da643e65ac65/images/0a803c17-9b96-4cb7-9890-c65f14de684d.jpeg)
Paula Andrea Martinez (UQ) and Clinton Roy (Bloomberg) at the Brisbane Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint, held in RCC's seminar room. Photo by Dr Nick Hamilton (RCC/QCIF).
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RCC events in pictures...
Galaxy training
![Galaxy training](https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b63d1ccba1962da643e65ac65/images/f87b54ba-8712-4d73-84c4-a47d906750f3.png)
RCC's Dr Igor Makunin (pictured right) led the Galaxy Training Workshop at UQ's Queensland Biosciences Precinct on Thursday, 2 June.
Library Carpentry
![Library Carpentry workshop](https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b63d1ccba1962da643e65ac65/images/bf29f1b1-5580-410c-9298-3b4c4c3daf7d.jpg)
RCC/QCIF eResearch Analyst Team Leader Belinda Weaver (standing) led a UQ-based workshop on Library Carpentry on Monday and Tuesday, 13–14 June.
Hacky Hour St Luc
![Hacky Hour 7 June 2016](https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b63d1ccba1962da643e65ac65/images/5726a008-b505-41f7-9fe1-572b6efecb08.jpg)
All smiles on Tuesday, 7 June, now the Euramoo issue's sorted. Hacky Hour is the place to get answers to research IT questions. Hacky Hour is held each Tuesday, 3–4pm. It's currently being held at Nano Cafe on UQ's St Lucia Campus.
All photos by Dr Nick Hamilton (RCC/QCIF).
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