Abstract: This presentation will present some of the challenges in bringing big eScience applications to the worldwide lightpath enabled networks.

Short Bio: Dr.ir. Cees de Laat is associate professor of the System and Network Engineering Science group at the University of Amsterdam. Research in his group includes optical/switched Internet for data-transport in TeraScale eScience applications, Semantic web to describe e-Science infrastructure, distributed Authorization architectures and Security & privacy of information in distributed environments. With SURFnet he develops and implements projects in SURFnet7 Research on Networks. He serves as chair of GridForum.nl and boardmember of ISOC.nl. He is co-founder and organizer of several past meetings of the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) and CineGrid.org. For more details, see http://www.science.uva.nl/~delaat