International Council for Science : Committee on Data for Science and Technology

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C O D A T A

Sunday, 8 November

Registration03.30 p.m. - 07.00 p.m.
 

Welcome Buffet06.00 p.m. - 08.00 p.m.
Venue:Habitat World, India Habitat Centre.

Monday, 9 November

Registration08.30 a.m. - 09.20 a.m.

Inaugural Session
09.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m.

S. Varadarajan (Chairman)
President, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India.

V. Rajaraman
Chairman, NOC & INCC, Bangalore, India.

J.-E. Dubois
President, CODATA, Paris, France.
"CODATA And The World-Wide Information Revolution : New Horizons"

M.G.K. Menon
Past President, ICSU, New Delhi, India.
"Information Technology For Sustainable Development : A Perspective From The Developing World"

Tea/Coffee 10.45 a.m. - 11.30 a.m.

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Session I Astronomical Data - Problems & Prospects
11.30 a.m. - 01.00 p.m.

Jayant V. Narlikar (Chairman)
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India.

Speakers :

Francoise Genova
Astra Data Centre, Strasbourg, France.
"Astronomy At Finger Tips"

Steve C. Odewahn
Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
"Automated Galaxy Classification In Large Sky Surveys"

A. K. Kembhavi
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India. "Astronomical Data In India"

Myron A. Smith
Data Archive Group, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, U.S.A.
"Accessing UV/Optical Archival Data With Ease At The MAST Facility Of The Space Telescope Science Institute"

Ernst Raimond
Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, The Netherlands.
"Archives Of Radio Astronomical Observatories"

Lunch 01.00 p.m. - 02.00 p.m.
 

Session II Integrated Materials & Chemistry Data Systems
02.00 p.m. - 03.30 p.m.

Fedor A. Kuznetsov (Chairman)
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.

E. Fluck (Co-chairman)
Gmelin-Institut fur Anorganische Chemie der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany.

Speakers :

John Rumble, Jr.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S.A.
"The Role Of Databases In Modern Analytical Science"

S. Iwata
RACE, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
"Proactive Engineering Based On Virtual Experiments On Materials"

Gautam R. Desiraju
School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
"Crystallographic Databases And Materials Structure"

A.V. Virovets
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.
"Crystal Structure Database Of Materials For Electronics : Organisation Principles, Research Potentials"

 
Tea/Coffee 03.30 p.m. - 04.00 p.m.

Session III IPR Issues In Databases And Software
04.00 p.m. - 05.10 p.m.

S.K. Joshi (Chairman)
Recruitment and Assessment Centre, DRDO, Delhi, India.

Speakers :

R.A. Mashelkar
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi, India.
"IPR Issues In Databases And Software : Indian Challenges"

Paul F. Uhlir
National Research Council, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
"New Trends In Database Protection And Potential Impacts On Research"

Demonstration 05.10 p.m. - 06.30 p.m.

Astronomy & Astrophysics Data - Problems & Prospects

Tuesday, 10 November

Session IV Biodiversity
09.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.

T.N. Khoshoo (Chairman)
Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi, India.

Jen-Leih Wu (Co-chairman)
Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, China.

Speakers :

Karen Wilson/Frank Bisby
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia.
"Global Biodiversity Information Facilities : How Can They Interrelate ?"

Madhav Gadgil
Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
"An Information System For Monitoring Biodiversity"

Nina M. Tchernavskaia
Moscow State University - VINITI, Moscow, Russia.
"Ecological Protection Problems Of Soil-Climatic Zones And Megapolice Territories From Heavy Metals Pollution"

Junko Shimura
The Institute of Physical & Chemical Research, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.
"Global Biodiversity Information And Asia : An Attempt Of Information Network For Microbial Research"

Tea 11.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m.

Session V Thermodynamic Data
11.30 a.m. - 01.00 p.m.

D.V.S. Jain (Chairman)
Punjab University, Chandigarh, India.

Speakers :

H. V. Kehiaian
ITODYS, University of Paris VII, Paris, France.
"The Standardization Of Physico-Chemical Property Electronic Data Files - An International Project"

Vladimir S. Yungman
Glushko Thermocenter, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
"Theoretical Investigation Of Gaseous Species In The High-Temperature Uranium - Oxygen System"

Anil Kumar
Physical Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.
"Contributions Of Indian Scientists In The Area Of Measurements Of Thermodynamic Data"

Lunch 01.00 p.m. - 02.00 p.m.

Session VI Heterogeneous Data Framework For Industry - Economic, Legal And Engineering Data
02.00 p.m. - 03.30 p.m.

J.-E. Dubois (Chairman)
ITODYS, France.

R.K. Pachauri (Co-chairman)
Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi, India.

Speakers :

Nahum Gershon
The MITRE Corporation, U.S.A.
"A Picture Is Not Always Worth A Thousand Words"

Stephen Eick
Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies, U.S.A.
"Information Visualization Components"

A.F. Cutting-Decelle
Universite de Savoie/ESIGEC/LGCH, France.
"Towards An Information System For Building Industries : A Communication Approach Based On Industrial Components"

Helene Bestougeff
University Paris Denis Diderot, France.
"Finding Related Information In Distributed Heterogeneous Systems"

Tea/Coffee 03.30 p.m. - 04.00 p.m.

Poster Sessions 04.00 p.m. - 05.30 p.m.

P1: Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics

M.A. Viswamitra (Chairman)
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Posters : P1-01 to P1-26

P2: Chemical & Thermodynamic Data

J.C. Ahluwalia (Chairman)
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.Posters : P2-01 to P2-04

Poster Discussions 05.30 p.m. - 06.30 p.m.

Conference Banquet 08.00 p.m.
Venue: will be announced.

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Wednesday, 11 November

Session VII Rice Cultivation - The Need For Interdisciplinary Data
09.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.

Manju Sharma (Chairperson)
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi, India.

Speakers :

Lois Blaine/Micah Krichevsky
Bioinformatics Division, American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, Virginia, U.S.A."Rice Cultivation : The Need For Interdisciplinary Data"

S.F. Rossouw
National Committee for CODATA, Republic of South Africa.
"Multidisciplinary Agricultural Data : The Interface Gap"

A.P. Mitra
National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India.
"Rice Cultivation - The Need For Interdisciplinary Data"

Tea/Coffee 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m.

Session VIII Hydrology, Land Degradation & Seismology
11.30 a.m. - 01.00 p.m.

H. K. Gupta (Chairman)
National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India.

Mitsuo Tasumi (Co-chairman)
Saitama University, Saitama, Japan.

Speakers :

Alexei D. Gvishiani
Centre of Geophysical Data Studies and Telematics Applications of JIPE, Moscow, Russia.
"Dynamic Pattern Recognition And Dynamic Programming In Global Data Analysis"

Gotz Gabert
IUGS Commission on Management and Application of Geoscience Information, Germany.
"Geo-Information Systems For National And Regional Development"

P. Babu Rao
Ground Water Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad.
"Groundwater Potential Assessment And Management, Using Hydrological Information System, Developed Under Hydrology Project With Case studies in Andhra Pradesh, India".

Sheng-Ming Wang
National Taiwan University, Taiwan, China.
"A Spatial Decision Support System For Hazards Mitigation"

H. K. Gupta
National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India.
"Worldwide Survey Of Reservoir Induced Earthquakes With Special Emphasis On Koyna, India"

Lunch 01.00 p.m. - 02.00 p.m.

Session IX Bioinformatics And Medical Informatics
02.00 p.m. - 04.40 p.m.

J.R. Arora (Chairman)
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi, India.

Speakers :

A.S. Kolaskar
Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune, Pune India
"Quality Control Procedures Used In Biological Data Bank"

Paul G. Mezey
Department of Chemistry and Department of Mathematics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
"Representation And Communication Of Fuzzy Data Structures : Case Studies In Biochemistry And Biotechnology"

Guenter Stoesser
EMBL Outstation, The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Cambridge, U.K. "Bioinformatics And Sequence Databases"

Lois Blaine
Bioinformatics Division, American Type Culture Collection, Virginia, U.S.A. "Microbial Genomics : Computational Approaches To The Study Of Microbiological Processes"

Tea/Coffee 03.30 p.m. - 04.00 p.m.

Rajani R. Joshi
Department of Mathematics and School of Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
"Ann-Imla For Protein Secondary Structure Prediction"

T. Kunisawa
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Science University of Tokyo, Japan.
"A Genomic Database Of Bacteriophage T4 : Comparison Of Codon Usage Preferences In Phage-Host Systems"

Poster Sessions 04.40 p.m. - 06.00 p.m.

P3: Environmental Data

Jong-Ching Su (Chairman)
Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

Aditi Pant (Co-chairperson)
National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.
Posters : P3-01 to P3-06

P4: Heterogeneous Data

J.H. Westbrook (Chairman)
Brookline Technologies, New York, U.S.A.
Posters : P4-01 to P4-07

P5: Others

E.S. Raja Gopal (Chairman)
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Posters : P5-01 to P5-13

Poster Discussions 06.00 p.m. - 07.30 p.m.

Cultural Program 07.30 p.m. onwards
Venue: will be announced

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Thursday, 12 November

Session X Data Dissemination Through Information Highways
09.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.

Vijay P. Bhatkar (Chairman)
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune, India.

Gordon H. Wood (Co-chairman)
National Research Council, Canada.

Speakers :

N. Balakrishnan
Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
"Active Networks And Their Use In Scientific Data Dissemination"

Tan Tin Wee
Bioinformatics Centre, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
"Asia Pacific Advanced Networks And Research User Communities"

Hideaki Sugawara
Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Japan.
"Information Highway And Its Application To Biological Informatics - WDCM Experiences And Global Biodiversity Information Facility"

Fay Yeu-zu Sheu
National Center for High-Performance Computing, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
"A National Research And Educational Network For The Next Millennium - Vision, Mission And Strategies"

Tea/Coffee 11.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m.

Session XI Data Mining, Data Warehousing And Derived Data -

Issues & Status

11.30 a.m. - 01.00 p.m.

David Abir (Chairman)

Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Michael A. Chinnery (Co-chairman)
U.S.A.

Speakers :

John Rumble, Jr.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S.A.
"Derived Data - Or, More Investments In Data Lead To More Science"

Dwijesh Dutta Majumder
Electronics & Communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. "Breast Cancer Screening Using Mammographic Image Analysis"

Lionello Pogliani
Universita' della Calabria, Italy.
"Physicochemical Data And Higher-Level Graph Theoretical Descriptors"

Akshara Kaginalkar
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune, India.
"Data Warehouse For Climatic Data"

S.R.H. Rizvi
National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, New Delhi, India.
"Global Data Requirement/Management In Weather Forecasting At NCMRWF,
New Delhi"

Lunch 01.00 p.m. - 02.00 p.m.

Session XII Issues & Usefulness Of Data Using Remote Sensing

02.00 p.m. - 02.45 p.m.

B.L. Deekshatulu (Chairman)
Centre for Space Science & Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific, Dehradun, India.

Speakers :

A.R. Dasgupta
Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad, India.
"A Remote Sensing Based Spatial Information System For Natural Resources Management"

A. S. Manjunath
National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad, India.
"Some aspects Of Remote Sensing Data Handling"

Session XIII Metrology

02.45 p.m. - 03.30 p.m.

Krishan Lal (Chairman)
National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India.

Gordon H. Wood (Co-chairman)
National Research Council, Canada.

Speakers :

Johannes Sievert
Magnetics Lab, Germany.
"The Determination Of The Characteristic Magnetic Properties Of Magnetic Materials - Present Status And Trends"

B.S. Mathur
National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India.
"Status Of Data In Metrology At NPL"

Coffee/Tea 03.30 p.m. - 04.00

Concluding Session 04.00 p.m. - 05.00 p.m.

V. Rajaraman (Chairman)
Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.