Robert Sharpe, Head of Digital Preservation at  Tessella,  Christy Henshaw, Digitisation Project Manager at the Wellcome Library and Dave Thompson, Digital Curator, at the Wellcome Library will be giving an oral presentation on Managing “Visually lossless” Compression, on Thursday 3rd June 2010.

Also presenting will be Mark Evans, Digital Archives Practice Manager at Tessella and Mark Pickering, Archives & Records Management at AstraZeneca. They will be presenting on The eArchive Service: A practical, cost-effective and sustainable approach for preserving authentic electronic records at AstraZeneca on Wednesay, June 2nd 2010.

To find out more or to register online, visit www.imaging.org

08:00 (PDT) 11:00 (EDT) 16:00 (BST)  17:00 (CEST)

Join Tom Parke as he quizzes adaptive trial gurus Prof. Don Berry and Dr. Scott Berry on the implications of the recent FDA Guidance on Adaptive Design for Clinical Trials. Tom will be getting answers to the key questions the guidance raises, namely:

• What are the major conclusions of the guidance?
• How does the guidance affect the future of clinical design?
• Is it positive or negative for adaptive designs?
• What role does Bayesian play in the guidance…if any?
• What role, if any does simulation play in the guidance?
• Why has Phase III been so clearly differentiated from earlier phases in the guidance?

Over 2 days, the comprehensive and scientific conference programme will feature key note addresses, case study presentations, panel and roundtable discussions of over 45 senior level industry speakers from leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology organisations as well as academia covering the following hot topics:

• R&D strategies and business models and pharma/biotech alliances collabroations
• Medicinal chemistry/drug design
• Screening techniques and assay development
• Biomarkers and personalised / translational medicine
• Bioinformatics
• Biologics

Dr Andrew Chadwick, Consultant (Life Sciences and Healthcare)  at Tessella will be giving a solution provider presentation on the Rational Approach to Risk Reduction: What can discovery screening planners learn from volcanos and dust detection, on Wednesday 6th June 2010, covering the following topics:

• The purpose of screening and the principles of value-adding screening plans
• The importance of finding the right, tailored screening plan for each project
• Risk perception and the pitfalls of cognitive biases for decision-making
• Metrics that should guide the choice, sequence, combinations and cutoffs for tests
• Ways of balancing the important factor (downstream consequences of error, cost and time for screening, and predictive performance)
• The need to overcome the challenge of uncertain inputs
• What is the right balance between exploitation and exploration of product options and technology performance?
• Effective approaches to supporting learning and continuous improvement

To find out more about this event or to register online, visit http://www.drugdiscovery-summit.com

Now in their 17th year, the Technology & Innovation Series of Exhibitions have proved to be an effective tool for companies wishing to demonstrate their products, services and capabilities directly to members of the nuclear industry who are actively seeking solutions to problems and ways of addressing future industrial needs.

The June exhibition at the Cumbrian site will provide visitors with the chance to meet the Tessella and ITS  framework team, view product demonstrations and discuss individual requirements with one of the team’s specialists. It is also a valuable opportunity for Tessella and ITS to network with existing customers and suppliers, promote the company’s vision for the future, expand its industry contacts, and secure new business leads.

The Cumbrian Branch of the Nuclear Institute will be hosting a VIP evening preview at the exhibition, inviting key individuals, senior managers and directors to meet the exhibitors. The Institute will also host a parallel lecture within the venue as part of its ‘ABC of Nuclear Science’ series of summer presentations.

The nuclear industry is currently facing a renaissance, managing operational plant updates and ongoing waste management challenges, plus decommissioning.  This exhibition brings together under one roof, and for one day, many of the experts in the field to help those actively seeking solutions to current and future needs.

For further information, please contact: Lisa Jones-Taylor, Nu-Tech Associates Ltd Tel: 01946-695554 Fax: 01946-691115 Email: sales@nu-techassoc.co.uk

To find out more or to register online visit http://www.stfc.ac.uk/KE/Events/spacetech.aspx

Defence Research 2010 is the only official UK MOD event to present the whole of the MOD’s £450 million annual research investment to the industry, academia and other suppliers, alongside key members of the MOD and Armed Services.  To find out more or to register as a delegate, visit http://www.defenceresearch.co.uk/

For more about Tessella and the defence sector, visit http://www.tessella.com/markets-clients/public-sector/defence/

SPE Intelligent Energy 2010 is a unique opportunity for companies targeting the intelligent oilfield market to showcase current solutions, the Return on Investment, and progress towards fully integrated operations in a collaborative conference and exhibition environment.

To find out more about this event or to register as a delegate, visit www.intelligentenergyevent.com.  For more information on the work Tessella undertakes in the Oil and Gas sector, visit http://www.tessella.com/markets-clients/energy/oil-gas/

Join James at the Jim Potter Room, Old Physics, Melbourne University, Australia on Tuesday 23rd March 2010 at 1.30pm.

To find out more information or to register online, visit https://www.versi.edu.au/event/conference/active-preservation-practical-approach-long-term-digital-preservation

Tessella and Physics World are holding a free webinar on the current state of scientific research software.

In the 60 years since the invention of the digital computer, millions of lines of code have been developed to support scientific research. Although an increasingly important part of almost all research projects, most research software is barely fit for purpose compared to equivalent systems in the commercial world. The code is hard to understand or maintain, lacking documentation and version control, and is continually ‘re-invented’ as the code writers move on to new jobs. This represents a tremendous waste of the already inadequate resources that are put into its development. We will investigate how this situation has come about, why it is important to the future of research, and what can be done about it.

Robert McGreevy will draw on his extensive experience at the STFC ISIS Facility, and explain how these issues are being addressed for the benefit of research science globally. Nicholas Draper, consultant at Tessella, will then expand on this, using the example of the Mantid project at ISIS.

To register for this free webinar click here