[hpc-announce] Call for Participation: UrgentHPC workshop at SC19 (full agenda)

[BROWN Nicholas]

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                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

First international workshop on HPC for Urgent Decision making (UrgentHPC)

       In conjunction with SC19: The International Conference for
       High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis,
       Sunday afternoon November 17, 2019, Denver, Colorado, USA.
         In cooperation with IEEE TCHPC.

                   https://www.urgenthpc.com
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When: Sunday 17th November, 2pm to 5:30pm
Where: Room 603 of the Colorado Convention Center, Denver

The topic of this workshop is the role of HPC and real-time data in
supporting disaster responders making urgent decisions in emergency
situations.  We have a fantastic agenda, with a keynote talk, six
research paper presentations and a panel session. Full details are
available on the website (https://www.urgenthpc.com) and a summary is
provided in this email.

Agenda
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2:00pm - 2:30pm: Keynote talk: Wildfire Risk Modeling, simulating at the
gazillion scale
2:30pm - 2:45pm: Research paper: Quantifying Uncertainty in Source Term
Estimation with Tensorflow Probability
2:45pm - 3:00pm: Research paper: Statistical Parameter Selection for
Clustering Persistence Diagrams
3:00pm - 3:30pm: Afternoon workshop break
3:30pm - 3:50pm: Research paper: On-Demand Urgent High Performance
Computing Utilizing the Google Cloud Platform
3:50pm - 4:10pm: Research paper: The Technologies Required for Fusing
HPC and Real-Time Data to Support Urgent Computing
4:10pm - 4:30pm: Research paper: An Interactive Data-Driven HPC System
for Forecasting Weather, Wildland Fire, and Smoke
4:30pm - 4:45pm: Research paper: Urgent tsunami computing
4:45pm - 5:25pm: Panel: What role can HPC play in Urgent Decision making?
5:25pm - 5:30pm: Wrap up and next steps

Workshop supporting projects & organisations
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This workshop is supported by the VESTEC and LEXIS EU FET H2020
projects, along with PNNL and NCAR

We hope to see you in Denver!
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