[hpc-announce] PASC15 Conference, June 1-3, 2015, ETH Zurich - Call for Participation

[Olaf Schenk]

The *Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing* (PASC) is delighted to 
launch a *Call for Participation* to its next conference (PASC15) to be 
held on June 1 through 3, 2015 at the Swiss Federal Institute of 
Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

*PASC15 Conference*
*June 1-3, 2015*
*ETH Zurich, Switzerland*
*www.pasc15.org <http://www.pasc15.org/>*


*SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE*
PASC15 Conference is inviting researchers from diverse scientific 
background to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange of 
expertise in HPC and computational science. The conference is an 
opportunity for researchers and practitioners in branches of science 
that require computer modeling and high-performance simulations to 
discuss computational techniques and technologies. PASC15 Conference 
seeks to engage participants from the academia, research labs and 
industry to address important issues in HPC and computational science 
resulting from applications of interest to society and hardware innovations.

*OFFERING*
PASC15 Conference will offer four plenary sessions, one public lecture, 
24 mini symposia with each up to eight talks, 80 contributed talks, one 
inter-PASC Networks discussion, one joint plenary session with the 
satellite conference /Frontiers in Computational 
Physics/ (http://www.frontiersincomputationalphysics.com 
<http://www.frontiersincomputationalphysics.com/>), a poster session, 
and information stands.

*CONTRIBUTIONS*
Researchers from the academic and from the corporate world are 
encouraged to participate and present their research area in the form of 
minisymposia, contributed talks and/or poster presentations. PASC15 
Conference welcomes submissions in the following scientific fields:

  * Climate and Weather
  * Solid Earth
  * Life Science
  * Chemistry and Materials
  * Physics
  * Computer Science and Mathematics
  * Engineering
  * Emerging Domains

Abstracts are to be submitted using the online submission system. 
Cross-disciplinary approaches are highly solicited.
Guidelines about the submission process are available at: 
http://www.pasc15.org/submission/

*SUBMISSION DEADLINES*
Minisymposia: January 30, 2015
Contributed Talks: March 2, 2015
Posters: March 30, 2015
*INVITED SPEAKERS*

  * Jacqueline Chen - Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at the
    Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories, USA
  * Giulia Galli - Professor in the Institute for Molecular Engineering
    at the University of Chicago, USA
  * David Keyes - Director of the Extreme Computing Research Center at
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
  * Volker Springel - Professor for Theoretical Astrophysics at
    Heidelberg University, Germany
  * Bjorn Stevens - Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology
    in Hamburg, Germany

*SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE*
Michael Bader, TU München, Germany
Peter Bauer, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, UK
Isabelle Bey, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
George Biros, The University of Texas, USA
Bastian Chopard, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Maria Grazia Giuffreda, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland
James J. Hack, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Jan Hesthaven, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Torsten Höfler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Petros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
George Malcolm Stocks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Nicola Marzari, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Dave May, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Markus Meuwly, University of Basel, Switzerland
Siddharta Mishra, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Ben Moore, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Kenko Nakajima, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Michele Parrinello, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Markus Püschel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Christoph Schär, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Matthias Scheffler, Fritz Haber Institute, Germany
Olaf Schenk, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Thomas Schulthess, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Romain Teyssier, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Jeroen Tromp, Princeton, USA
Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Laurent Villard, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Rich Vuduc, Georgia Tech, USA

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Please refer to PASC15 website for further information about the 
conference and the supporting organization:
www.pasc15.org <http://www.pasc15.org/>

-- 
Prof. Dr. Olaf Schenk
Advanced Computing Laboratory
Institute of Computational Science
Universita della Svizzera italiana   **  Switzerland
Via Giuseppe Buffi 13                **  6900 Lugano
Phone: +41 (0) 79 368 22 81          **  Fax.: +41 (0)58 666 45 36
Email: olaf.schenk at usi.ch            **  http://www.ics.inf.usi.ch

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