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Team
Dissemination Officer: Sarah PearceEvents Officer: Neasan O’Neill
•Things we’ve done
•News
•Website
•What we’re working on
•Other involvements
•Training
•Requests
Magazine Insert
Included in:• Next issue of “PPARC
and Parliament”• June 12th issue of
“House” magazine• Your conference
pack.
PDF available on the website
New Talks and Poster templates
Already used at:• IoP HEPP
conference in April
• Industry talks in Liverpool and Cambridge
Other News
• Cascade of information project in the University of Birmingham
• Einstein year Webcast with ½ hr on the Grid
• Starting to get involved in Technology Transfer and interaction with Small/Medium Enterprises
• 18 news stories since last collaboration meeting, 3 press releases
Website• RSS feed on the
site• New “Introducing
The Grid and GridPP” page
•“Demos” page reorganized•Dead or broken links, incorrect information or missing pictures contact me•Working on – rationalising DN lists and review timetable for pages
Working On
• Have submitted an application for an event at the BA Festival of Science 2007 in York
• LHC promotion steering group• Grid themed event in the Dana centre • In talks with producers to do a Horizon style
programme on the Grid• Magic Cube for schools• Formative stages - Bandwidth challenge physical
movement of data Glasgow to Edinburgh
Forthcoming Events
• UK eScience All Hands Meeting ’06 in Nottingham, September
• EGEE ’06 – September
• Supercomputing ’06 in Tampa, November
Communications and Media training.
Communication SkillsThe Communication skills course equips scientists with the skills to communicate their science on a non-technical level, clearly and confidently to a variety of audiences.
Free days this year:•Wednesday 27 September 2006 •Wednesday 8 November 2006 •Monday 4 December 2006
Media TrainingTakes scientists with a basic knowledge of the media to a higher level of communication skills, preparing them for radio and television interviews as well as how to approach the written media with news stories and features.
Free days this year:•Wednesday 15 November 2006•Tuesday 5 December 2006