Cyber-SKA Canada Employment Opportunities

There are currently several employment opportunities at the University of Calgary (UofC) as part of the Cyber-SKA Canada project that I am Technical Coordinator for. Postings for employment opportunities at University of British Columbia (UBC) and McGill University should also be up soon. The CANARIE funded project will focus on development of cyberinfrastructure to process and analyze data that will be gathered by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). See my previous blog posting for more details on this project.

Links to the UofC job postings are below. The application deadline for all positions is January 15, 2010.

• Cyberinfrastructure Specialist, Institute for Space Imaging Science, Faculty of Science
• Data Mining & Visualization Specialist, Institute for Space Imaging Science, Faculty of Science
• Data Processing Developer, Institute for Space Imaging Science, Faculty of Science

Square Kilometre Array project awarded more than $2 million

The Grid Research Centre (GRC) will be a participant in the Cyber-SKA Canada project, recently awarded over $2 million dollars as part of the CANARIE Network Enabled Platforms (NEP2) program. The project, led by Dr. Russ Taylor, head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary, will involve development of cyberinfrastructure to process and analyze data that will be gathered by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA will be the world's largest radio telescope when completed around 2020. For more details on this project see the following media release by the University of Calgary: http://people.ucalgary.ca/~ria/2009/December2009/ska.html

Cyberinfrastructure and its Role in Science

I recently gave a presentation entitled "Cyberinfrastrucutre and its Role in Science" at IAI International Wireless Sensor Networks Summer School held at the University of Alberta on July 6th, 2009. This presentation examines some of the challenges scientists face and describes various cyberinfrastructure technologies that help address these challenges. Example projects employing cyberinfrastructure technologies that we have worked on at the Grid Research Centre, including the GeoChronos project, are also presented.

Cyberinfrastructure and its Role in Science

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