I will make an official invitation to NII on the JP CyberScience on Friday (I am @ NYC right now but flying home in a minute). Ian currently plans not attending Tokyo but you might convince him otherwise (or attend remotely). Satoshi (M) On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:00:23 -0500 (EST) Dennis Gannon <gannon@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: gannon> hi Friends, gannon> We need to get the GGF17 program finished and published by early next gannon> week. I need your help on identifing some key speakers for a few gannon> panels. gannon> gannon> On the first morning we have the opening address plenary. Mark will gannon> do a half hour of intro followed by 50 min presentation by Hiro. gannon> gannon> then we have a half hour presentation by the japan cyber science director gannon> prof. Sakauchi. He needs to be officially invited. Satoshi (M or S) can gannon> you make an offical invitation? gannon> gannon> we will then have a panel on the status of Big Grids. The obvious gannon> choices are Teragrid, Naregi, OSG, but i need contacts for some of the gannon> big projects in the rest of the pacific rim? please send me references gannon> for names of projects and people to contact. gannon> gannon> After lunch we have a panel on OGSA vs Alternatives. The idea here is gannon> to look into the debate about scope of OGSA vs. smaller, more focused gannon> service architectures. Good people for this would be David Snelling, gannon> Andrew Grimshaw, Ian Foster, Tony Hey, Geoffrey Fox, Steve Newhouse, but gannon> i am sure there are others. I think Satoshi M. has agreed to moderate gannon> this panel? Is that correct Satoshi? Please send me other names of gannon> good people for this. gannon> gannon> Finally on thurs morning we have a panel on Managing Large Data gannon> Collections. I have asked Beth Plale to organize this. She has agree gannon> on the condition that the committee help her identify the right people gannon> in asia who are involved in this aspect of grids? who has large data gannon> collections? we need good contact names so that we may invite them. gannon> gannon> being in tokyo makes it very important that we take the opportunity to gannon> attract good people from the region to ggf, because these people may not gannon> otherwise be available. and we can expose more of the us and european gannon> community to the work from the asia pacific region. So please help gannon> us with names. gannon> gannon> thanks! gannon> dennis gannon> gannon> 東京工業大学 学術国際情報センター 教授 松岡聡 〒152-8550 東京都目黒区大岡山 2-12-1 (西7号館2F) Tel/Fax 03-5734-3876 (西7号館2F206) 携帯090-5811-8746 (FOMA-TV電話可能) E-mail: matsu@is.titech.ac.jp 秘書：近藤・高杉 secretary@matsulab.is.titech.ac.jp (松岡宛のメイルでCC:をお願いします)