Sponsored jointly by FAPESP and Microsoft Research, the Workshop will be carried out in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from May 13 to 15, 2013. The selected students (Brazilian and students from abroad) will receive full financial support for travel, hotel and meal costs. Students application deadline is February 28th, 2013.

In Brazil, researchers have been working together to increase the understanding of tropical ecosystems, human impact on the environment, biogenetics, and biodiversity. These efforts are providing new opportunities to improve the capabilities in data-intensive research and strengthen the eScience research community. The Latin American eScience Workshop 2013 will bring together more than 150 participants — including students and researchers from all over the world — to explore collaboration and research opportunities in areas such as environmental sciences, bioenergy, biodiversity, health and digital humanities. The workshop topics include:

• Data acquisition & Data management
• Data Modelling
• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Data Visualization
• eScience in the cloud
• Health & Wellbeing
• Digital humanities
• Workflows
• Computational Ecology

The confirmed speakers include:

• Carlos Moreira-Filho (USP)
• Carole Goble (U. Manchester)
• Cristian Bonacic (PUC ­ Chile)
• Dennis Gannon (Microsoft Research)
• Drew Purves (Microsoft Research)
• Luciano F Costa (USP)
• Marta Mattoso (UFRJ)
• Paul Roe (Queensland University of Technology ­ QUT)
• Ricardo S Torres (UNICAMP)
• Tony Hey (Microsoft Research)

The Workshop will be held at FAPESP (http://www.fapesp.br/en/) in Sao Paulo, Brazil and will consist of talks, demos and tutorials. The event will be held in English.

Selection of students: Applicants can be from any country. The selection will be done by the organizing committee based on CVs and additional documentation as indicated in the Students Sponsorship form web-page: http://www.fapesp.br/eventos/eScienceWorkshop2013?lang=en

Registration: There are no registration fees and registration should be done at: http://www.fapesp.br/eventos/latam2013/registration

Important dates:

Students application deadline: February 28th, 2013
Students selection decision: March 11th, 2013
Workshop: May 13-15, 2013

Contact information: cesar-latam-escience2013@ime.usp.br