News and Member Notices

DATE CLAIMER: CAUDIT Autumn Members Meeting - April 21 - 23, 2010 This year's Autumn Members Meeting will be held at Hotel Windsor in Melbourne. A detailed agenda will be made available closer to the date but the general format will be: Wednesday April 21 - Vendor Day starting at 9.30am (vendors to be confirmed). Dinner will be provided in the hotel in the evening. Thursday April 22 - Networking Breakfast followed by Day 1 of the meeting followed by the formal dinner. Friday April 23 - Day 2 of the meeting which will conclude around 3.30pm. At this meeting all member representatives plus one of their associates is welcome to attend. Registrations for the meeting will open on February 1, 2010. Register for the APAN 29 Conference Downunder APAN is the Asia Pacific’s foremost event for showcasing advanced broadband networking applications and technologies for research and education. One of the strengths of APAN is the telemedicine stream and the Sydney and APAN29 will highlight tutorials, oral presentations and demonstrations covering advanced network technologies and applications and will feature case studies of advanced networking in such areas as: Applications: Medical, High Definition TV, e-Science, Middleware and e-Culture Network Technology: IPv6, Network, Lambda, Security Natural Resources: Agriculture, Earth Monitoring, and Environmental sensors. The plenary speakers are: René Buch, CEO of NORDUnet, the Nordic Infrastructure for Research and Education. His talk titled “The Globalised Knowledge Infrastructure” will address how to facilitate the evolution of a Technology-centric Infrastructure into the Knowledge Infrastructure of the future by federating regional resources. Dr Shinji Shimojo, Director of the Cybermedia Center at Osaka University. Dr Shimojo’s talk is titled “A case study for Research and Education Networks”. Research for Future Internet or Future Network has been conducted in many countries. EU, US, Japan and Korea have launched research initiatives and other efforts are going on in other countries. However, the community of Future Network research and the R&E network community has very little interaction. Collaboration of these research initiatives and the R&E network community have just begun recently. In this talk, Dr Shimojo introduces some of the efforts being undertaken on Future Network research in Japan and discusses what the R&E community can achieve together with the Future Network Research community. The meeting will be held at the historic InterContinental Hotel and for the first time AARNet has high bandwidth available into the venue to support the demonstrations being planned for this meeting. The InterContinental which overlooks the Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and Royal Botanic Gardens is not far the main shopping districts and a ferry trip away from the popular beaches. February is summer in Australia and is a wonderful time of the year to visit this beautiful city. To register to find out more about the conference click the link http://www.apan.net/meetings/Sydney2010/Registration.php

Updated: 16 October 2009