The PhD summer school took place at NEReSC on the 10th April 2006. This was an excellent opportunity for students working in e-Science throughout the North-East to discuss their work and to contribute to discussions on the future of e-Science in the region.

Below is a list of the talks and speakers. For more information please contact Rob Smith

• Welcome - Paul Watson
• Keynote speaker: Professor Jie Xu, University of Leeds
• Dynamic policies for web service deployment - Joris Slegers, Newcastle
• Stateful Resource Interaction Using REST - Christopher Smith, Newcastle
• Semantic Web Service Composition - Xiaofeng Du, Durham
• Distributed Query Processing on P2P Systems - John Colquhoun, Newcastle
• Preventing Credit Card Frauds when Purchasing Mutlimedia Products - Abdullah Alaraj, Durham
• Securing e-Forms at the Application Level - Shadi Aljawarneh, Durham
• Panel Discussion: Campus Grids: current deployments and future developments for supporting e-Science projects Chair: Professor Paul Watson, University of Newcastle upon Tyne