Cancelled talk

The talk this Thursday (27:th) by Gabriela Spulber has had to be cancelled due to illness. The talk will be given at another academic meeting instead.

Hermes az service

At some point this week Ronnie from Hermes will do service updating of the julius server and az client, during which time the system will be unavailable.

Forwarding of blog entries

I have just woken up to the fact that the blog entry summaries have not been sent out for several months. I think I have identified the problem now, so consider this post a test...

Clean up Hermes desktops, please!

The Hermes Windows machines have many, many files lying on the desktop. Please backup and remove as files will be deleted shortly!

Also, several programs have been downloaded without prior permission (as the data contract clearly states must not be done). The settings of the hermes user has been changed so that this is no longer possible.

New conference website

There is a new website which gathers information on conferences worldwide, hosted by EDP Sciences. Take a look at

http://www.webofconferences.org/index.php?lang=en

Matlab learning event

As previously noted on the emailing list, there will be a Matlab learning event at SMILE, given by Carlos.

The first meeting will be on Monday 18th of October at 15.00 in the R43 conference room. Carlos will give an initial talk introducing Matlab for those of you who are interested in learning the language: no previous knowledge of Matlab or programming is needed. In this first meeting the plan is to cover the basis (from zero), so even those who have never seen or used Matlab can feel comfortable.

New posters now on display

We have had a large influx of posters to Imagelab, mostly from this year's ICAD conference. The walls are now bursting with them -- you are welcome to come over and have a look! Remember, we will always be happy to have posters donated to the lab...

Invitation to Mehregan

Our exam project student Amir is cordially inviting everyone to celebrate Mehregan at KTH tomorrow! The party is organised by PerSiS (Persian students in Stockholm) and this is their description of the event:

It is time to celebrate MEHREGAN the second most important traditional Iranian festival to honor “MEHR”, which means friendship, affection and love. It is also widely referred to as Persian Festival of Autumn. This festival starts with a cultural event and follows by a BIG PARTY which makes it an unforgettable night. Special part: Mehregan Traditional Table (don’t miss it) Bring cash with you! Drinks (Alcoholic and None) and snacks are available to buy. Entrance fee for students 50 SEK, non-students 100 SEK.

Time:
Tomorrow Friday 8th of October at 7:30pm - Saturday at 1:00am

Location:
KTH, Main campus, Nymble(Main entrance)

User practice -- LONI

Today we will hold the first practice event preparing ourselves for the final testing round of neuGRID in Geneva in December. During the autumn we are planning several such occasions, studying

• the LONI Pipeline Processing Environment
• the gLite middleware for communicating with the grid
• neuGRID computing itself

Today Carlos will hold an introduction to LONI, a tool with which it is possible to graphically put together workflows for processing images (no scripting needed!). We will meet at at 15.00 in the R43 conference room.

All are welcome!