[hpc-announce] ICS 2016 Call for Workshop & Tutorials

[Ulya Karpuzcu]

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Ulya Karpuzcu
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
http://altai.ece.umn.edu/Karpuzcu.html
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Call For Tutorial Proposals - ICS'16 
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Tutorial proposals are solicited for ICS-2016, Istanbul, Turkey. 
Tutorials will be held on Tuesday May 31th 2015 just before the 
technical sessions (June 1st-3rd 2016). 

Proposals for both half- and full-day tutorials are solicited on
any topic that is relevant to the ICS audience. Tutorials that
focus on tools and techniques that enable research across layers
of the computational stack are strongly encouraged.

Tutorials may have one of the following goals:

- Describe an important piece of research infrastructure.
- Educate the community on an emerging topic.

Submission Procedures
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Proposals should provide the following information:

 - Title.
 - Presenter(s) and contact information.
 - Proposed duration (full day, half day).
 - 1-2 paragraph abstract suitable for tutorial publicity.
 - 1 paragraph biography per presenter suitable for tutorial
   publicity.
 - 1-3 page description (for evaluation). This should include:
   1. Tutorial scope and objectives,
   2. Topics to be covered,
   3. Target audience,
   4. Expected number of attendees,
   5. If the tutorial has been held previously, the location 
      (i.e., conference), date, and number of attendees.

Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to Ramon Bertran 
(rbertra at us.ibm.com), Alper Buyuktosunoglu (alperb at us.ibm.com) 
and Smail Niar (smail.niar at univ-valenciennes.fr), with the 
subject "ICS'16 Tutorial Proposal". Submissions will be 
acknowledged via e-mail.

Important Dates
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Proposals date:      	February 26, 2016 AOE 
Notification date:   	March 4, 2016 AOE
Tutorial date:    	May 31 2016

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Call for Workshop Proposals - ICS'16
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Workshop proposals are solicited for ICS-2016 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Workshops will be held on May 31th 2015 just before the technical
sessions (June 1st-3rd 2016). 
 
Proposals in the interplay between: programming languages, computer
architecture, operating systems, and user interfaces to deal with 
power, performance, resilience, and programmer productivity issues
in emerging areas such as data-centers and cloud computing, systems
based on non-volatile memory technologies, large scale data 
analysis, smart infrastructure, and extreme scale computing are 
encouraged. 

Submission Procedures
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Proposals should provide the following information:

 - Title of the workshop
 - Organizers and their affiliations
 - Sample call for papers
 - Duration - Half-Day or Full Day
 - Preferred Day - Saturday or Sunday
 - If the workshop was previously held, the location (conference),
   date, and number of attendees

Please send proposals to Ramon Bertran (rbertra at us.ibm.com), 
Alper Buyuktosunoglu (alperb at us.ibm.com) and Smail Niar 
(smail.niar at univ-valenciennes.fr) via email.

Feel free to contact Ramon Bertran, Alper Buyuktosunoglu or 
Smail Niar if you have any questions about the suitability of a 
workshop for ICS'2016 or for any other related matters.

Important Dates
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Proposals date:      	February 26, 2016 AOE 
Notification date:   	March 4, 2016 AOE
Workshop date:    	May 31 2016

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