News
Annual Meeting
SciDAC 2008 Conference Set for Seattle
The SciDAC community will hold its annual conference at Seattle's Fairmont Olympic Hotel, July 13-17, 2008. The meeting will feature presentations by plenary speakers and SciDAC researchers.
Among other things, the conference aims to expand its outreach in an effort to include more presentations by researchers from Asia and Europe, as well as to recruit several students from DOE's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship program to present their research.
"From the outset, SciDAC was designed to increase the role of advanced computing in all areas of scientific research across broad communities and we are developing a conference program that we hope will reflect that," said Dr. Rick Stevens, associate laboratory director for Computing and Life Sciences at Argonne National Laboratory, and general chair of the 2008 SciDAC Conference. "We are also planning a number of evening events aimed at bringing attendees together, getting them talking, and laying the groundwork for increased collaboration," he said.
Currently in the planning stage, "Movie Night," will showcase researchers' latest scientific visualizations and culminate in the presentation of the first-ever OASCRs—awards for the best entries in a number of categories.
Scheduled for an encore in Seattle are two evenings of poster presentations, which proved extremely popular at the 2007 SciDAC Conference in Boston. About 20 research posters will be presented each night to spur discussions about new ideas for solving scientific problems.
In conjunction with the SciDAC 2008 conference, the SciDAC Outreach Center will hold daylong tutorials at the Microsoft Research Facility on Friday, July 18.
Further Information
http://hpcrd.lbl.gov/SciDAC08/

 
Published by IOP Publishing in association with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, for the US Department of Energy. Copyright © 2008 by IOP.