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Dear everyone:<br>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">We are organizing a minisymposterium (thematic poster group) on</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b> Software Productivity and Sustainability for CSE and Data Science </b></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">(see abstract below) for the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Engineering (CSE17), which will be held during Feb 27 - March 3, 2017 in </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Atlanta, Georgia, see <a href="http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse17/">http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse17/</a>.</div>
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<div>We invite you and others who are working on issues in software productivity </div>
<div>and sustainability to consider submitting a poster to CSE17 as part of this </div>
<div>minisymposterium. Feel free to forward this information to others who may </div>
<div>be interested.</div>
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<div><b>Please let me know by Thursday, Sept 1 if you are interested in </b></div>
<div><b>submitting a poster as part of this session.</b> If so, respond to me by </div>
<div>email with a draft title of the poster and a sentence or two about the </div>
<div>area of work. I will then follow up with instructions for submitting a </div>
<div>poster abstract (1,500 characters maximum) to the CSE17 conference </div>
<div>system (and also to us by email); <b>our goal is to collect all abstracts by </b></div>
<div><b>Thursday, Sept 8. </b>Unfortunately, SIAM does not provide travel support </div>
<div>for poster presenters. Note that CSE17 conference guidelines allow </div>
<div>an individual to present a poster in addition to a talk, provided that the </div>
<div>talk and poster are on different results.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">All posters in the thematic poster group will be co-located in the </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">poster viewing area, which will provide a rich environment for informal </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">exchange of ideas on software productivity and sustainability issues. </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">The following is a video clip of the overall CSE15 poster sessions:</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbqggZFQUJ8&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbqggZFQUJ8&feature=youtu.be</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">I’d be glad to address any questions you may have.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Best,</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Lois (for the organizers)</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Minisymposterium: </b></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Software Productivity and Sustainability for CSE and </b><b>Data Science</b></div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Organizers:</b></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">David E. Bernholdt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Michael A. Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories)</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Anders Logg (Chalmers University of Technology)</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Lois Curfman McInnes (Argonne National Laboratory)</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Abstract:</b></div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Software is the key crosscutting technology that connects advances in </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">mathematics, computer science, and domain-specific science and </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">engineering to achieve robust simulations and analysis for predictive </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">science, engineering, and other research fields. While software is </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">becoming more complex due to multiphysics and multiscale modeling, the </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">coupling of data analytics, and disruptive changes in computer hardware </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">(due to increases in typical system scale and heterogeneity, including </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">GPUs and additional alternative architectures), software itself has not </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">traditionally received focused attention in the CSE community or been </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">rewarded by that community. The speakers in this minisymposterium will </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">discuss work that addresses growing technical and social challenges in </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">software productivity, quality, and sustainability, and thereby is </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">helping software to fulfill its critical role as a cornerstone of </div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">long-term CSE collaboration.</div>
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