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Open Source Junction 2

July 5–6 2011
Wolfson College, Oxford
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This event brings together the best business and academic minds to explore how the two sectors can jointly innovate and exploit open source mobile technologies.

Metering and Managing Energy Consumption in Data Centres

12 July 2011
Old Broadcasting House, Leeds Metropolitan University
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Rising prices, carbon regulation, and HEFCE targets are all making universities and colleges pay greater attention to their energy consumption and carbon emissions. Whilst simple in principle, metering and monitoring can be difficult in practice. This seminar will examine sector experience, and share knowledge, with a view to helping estates, finance, and IT staff.

Institutional Web Management Workshop 2011

26 -27July 2011
University of Reading
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This event is for people involved in providing institutional web services to hear about institutional case studies, national initiatives and emerging technologies and to actively participate in a number of parallel sessions.

Research Integrity Conference: the importance of good data management

13 September 2011
Wellcome Collection, London
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How researchers manage their data has been thrown under the public spotlight by recent events at the University of East Anglia over climate data. This major one day conference for researchers and institutional managers will look at ways in which public confidence in science can be restored through good management of the research data lifecycle.

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HEA Annual Conference

5-6 July 2011
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The title for the Higher Education Academy’s conference is Changing Practice – Changing Times, exploring challenges and changes to the sector over the next five years.

ALT-C 2011

6-8 September 2011
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The Association for Learning Technologists’ conference will provide a practical forum for practitioners, researchers, managers and policy-makers from education and industry to explore, reflect, influence and learn. The theme is Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate.

UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2011

26-29 September 2011
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International forum for computing science researchers to meet with users, whether researchers or industrial collaborators. The main themes will be shared infrastructures, using the cloud in research, end-user engagement and applications.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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