Programme Version 2.1
Thursday 2 September
8:30 Doors open
9:00 Welcome address
Chair – Mark Hedges, Deputy Director, Centre for e-Research, King’s College London
Morning Session: Citizen Cyberscience, Past Tense
Historical examples of citizen science, distributed computing and distributed thinking.
Chair – Hanny van Arkel, Biology Teacher at Citaverde College and Citizen Cyberscientist
9:30 David Grier, Author of “When Computers Were Human”
Lessons from the Ancient History of Crowd Sourcing10:00 George Dyson, Author of “Darwin Among the Machines”
How the Digital Universe got its Spots
10:30 Tea Break11:00 Christian Thiemann, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
Follow the money: what we’ve learned from ‘Where’s George?’11:20 Rytis Slatkevičius, Founder of PrimeGrid
Finding primes: from digits to digital technology11:40 David Anderson, Director of BOINC and SETI@home, UC Berkeley
A Brief History of (CPU) Time
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session: Citizen Cyberscience, Present Tense
A survey of some of the latest results from citizen cyberscience projects
Chair - Geoffrey Carr, Science Editor, The Economist
13:30 Myles Allen, Head of ClimatePrediction.net, Oxford University
Why does climate science needs exaflops - and what kind of exaflops?
13:50 Bruce Allen, Lead Scientist on Einstein@home, MPI for Gravitational Physics
Einstein@Home: hunting for neutron stars with gravitational and radio waves
14:10 Tom Humphrey, Botanical Society of the British Isles
Herbaria@home: crowd-sourcing the documentation of natural science collections
14:30 Tea Break
15:00 Steven Bamford, University of Nottingham & Citizen Science Alliance
From Galaxy Zoo to the Zooniverse
15:20 Nicolas Maire, Swiss Tropical Institute and MalariaControl.net
How volunteer computing is supporting malaria control efforts in Africa
15:40 Angelos Michaelides, University College London
Supercomputing and nanoscience for everyone
16:00 Becky Parker, Langton Star Centre
Building cosmic ray detector networks in schools
Panel Session - 17:00: The Anatomy of Citizen Cyberscience
Chair - Francois Grey, coordinator, Citizen Cyberscience Centre
A panel of citizen cyberscientists describe why they volunteer their time for science projects, what they’ve learned from it, and how social networking helps science.
Featuring: Julia Wilkinson, Bruce Borden, Richard Haselgrove, Becky Parker
18:00 End of session
Friday 3 September
8:30 Doors open
Morning Session: Citizen Cyberscience, Future Tense
New projects in the pipeline, from all around the world: short pitches by young researchers
Chair – Gareth Mitchell, BBC Digital Planet editor
9:00 Muki Haklay, University College London
Extreme Citizen Science
9:20 Peter Amoako, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
AfricaMap - volunteer cartography for Africa
9:40 Ben Segal, CERN
LHC@home starts to tackle real LHC physics
10:00 Wenjing Wu, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Citizen Cyberscience in China: CAS@home
10:20 Yuting Chen, Academia Sinica
Puzzle@home and the minimum information sudoku challenge
10:40 Tea break
11:10 David Aanensen, Imperial College London
EpiCollect - a generic framework for open data collection using smartphones
11:30 Richard Palmer, King’s College London
Volunteer thinking for enhancing London’s theatre archives
11:50 Philip Brohan, UK Met Office
Volunteer online transcription of historical climate records
12:10 Matt Blumberg, GridRepublic
Society of Minds – a framework for distributed thinking
12:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session: Citizen Cyberscience, Conditional Tense
The potential impact of new technologies and social networks on citizen cyberscience
Chair – Tom Standage, The Economist Business and Technology Quarterly Editor
14:00 Elizabeth Cochran, University of California at Riverside and Quake-Catcher Network
Distributed Sensing: using volunteer computing to monitor earthquakes around the world
14:20 Bruce Borden, Citizen Science Coordinator, Folding Community Forum
Folding@home: Distributed Computing at Stanford University
14:40 Kevin Mobbs, Innocentive
The Power of a Global Solver Network
15:00 Tea break
15:30 Janos Barbero, University of Washington and Foldit Project
The challenge of scientific discovery games
15:50 Fermin Serrano Sanz, University of Zaragoza
Ibercivis: from local project to national initiative16:10 Ad Emmen, Stichting AlmereGrid
Getting a whole city involved in citizen cyberscience: AlmereGrid
16:20 Daniel Lombraña González, University of Extremadura
Getting a whole region involved in citizen cyberscience: Extremadura@home
16:40 Kevin Reed, IBM
Getting a global company involved in citizen cyberscience: World Community Grid17:10 Aperitif
17:30 Towards a Manifesto for Citizen Cyberscience
A discussion about the future of the field
Chair – Francois Grey, coordinator, Citizen Cyberscience Centre
Scientists and citizens from around the world discuss and debate where they think citizen cyberscience should go, and how it might get there.
19:00 End of the Summit
