
Led by RICAP, the activity, to be held on April 18* between 14:30 and 17:00 GMT, will include the participation of the experts Omar Darío López (Uniandes, Colombia), Francisco Javier Martínez (UIS, Colombia) and Rafael Mayo-García (CIEMAT, Spain).

Led by RICAP, the activity, to be held on April 18* between 14:30 and 17:00 GMT, will include the participation of the experts Omar Darío López (Uniandes, Colombia), Francisco Javier Martínez (UIS, Colombia) and Rafael Mayo-García (CIEMAT, Spain).

The paneuropean advanced network GÉANT confirmed Erik Huizer in his role as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) following his appointment in July 2017 on an interim basis.

It takes less than five months for the most important conference of ICT directors in Latin America. TICAL2018, which will be held for the second consecutive year in conjunction with the Latin American e-Science Meeting, will take place from September 3 to 5, 2018, at the Las Americas Convention Center in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. And as the date of the event approaches, some of its important deadlines also come to an end, such as the submission of papers, which ends in less than a month, and the registration for the Virtual Information Day on the two meetings, which ends this Tuesday, April 10.
The Amlight consortium, which manages international connections between the United States and Latin America for teaching and research purposes, has announced the activation of new 100 Gb/s international connections in Fortaleza, Brazil, and Santiago, Chile. With these new links, researchers and students in both countries will have access to a new network infrastructure with ten times the bandwidth, to the benefit of international academic collaboration.

Do you have doubts about how to apply and participate in TICAL2018 and the 2nd Latin American e-Science Meeting? Then this is for you. The Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks, RedCLARA, and the National Academic Network of Advanced Technology of Colombia, RENATA, invite the academic community of the country and the region to participate in the "TICAL 2018 - 2nd Latin American Meeting of eScience Virtual Day: Digital Transformation in Institutions of Higher Education, Science and Culture ", this Thursday April 12 at 3pm GMT.

Aiming to collaborate with e-Science efforts, proposing a forum for the discussion of relevant topics in this area of study, the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) will hold, on July 22 and 23, 2018*, the 12th edition of the Brazilian e-Science Workshop (XII BreSci). The event is part of the activities of the XXXVIII SBC Congress and will be based at the Natal Convention Center (CCN), in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte.
