Cees de Laat

Biography
Prof. dr. ir. Cees de Laat is chair of the System and
Network Engineering research group at the University of
Amsterdam. Research in his group includes optical/switched
networking for Internet transport of massive amounts of
data in PetaScale eScience applications, semantic web to
describe networks and associated resources, distributed
cross organization authorization architectures, service
composition in virtualized (cloud) context and systems,
security & privacy of information in distributed
environments. He serves as board member of Open Grid Forum
and is chair of GridForum.nl. He is co-founder and
organizer of several of the past meetings of the Global
Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) and founding member of
CineGrid.org.
Presentations
Workshop

Architectures
Networks
State of the Practice