[hpc-announce] EduPar'20 paper deadline extended to Feb. 9

[Tia Newhall]

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The paper submission deadline for EduPar'20 has been extended to Feb. 9,
2020.

We encourage you to submit your work related to Parallel and Distributed
Compturing (PDC)  Education.  We seek submissions on a broad range of
topics related to the teaching of PDC topics. More details are in the Call
for papers is listed below, and  here:
https://tcpp.cs.gsu.edu/curriculum/?q=edupar20

Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Authors will also be invited to submit to a journal special issue, as in
the past workshops (for example see the vol. 105 of the Journal of Parallel
and Distributed Computing
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-computing/vol/105>
)

As part of our 10 year anniversary of EduPar, and keeping with its "looking
back and looking forward" theme, this year's conference includes:

   - A *distinguished* *keynote *speaker who will present a "looking
   forward" themed talk on  what they see as emerging challenges for PDC,  and
   important new foci, directions, and challenges for PDC education.
   - An invited *panel *of distinguished panelists to lead a lively
   discussion of "looking back" at what we have accomplished in PDC education
   these past 10 years, and "looking forward" to future challenges in PDC
   education and to educators, including future technical challenges as well
   as broader challenges related to  diversity, broadening participation, and
   societal and ethical issues.
   - An Announcement of *TCPP curriculum* version 2

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Call for Papers

EduPar-20: the10th NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing
Education
held in conjunction with IEEE International Parallel and Distributed
Processing Symposium (IPDPS’20)
May 18, 2020, New Orleans, Louisiana USA
Conference website: https://tcpp.cs.gsu.edu/curriculum/?q=edupar20

Important Dates:

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   January 10, 2020: Paper Abstracts Due (optional but encouraged)
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   January 17, 2020: Papers Due ***Deadline extended to Febuary 9, 2020***
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   January 31, 2020: Poster Abstracts Due
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   January 31, 2020: Peachy Assignment Abstracts Due
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   Late Feb (TBD):  Paper Author Notification
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   Late Feb (TBD): Poster and Peachy Author Notification
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   Early March (TBD): Final versions of Poster Abstracts and Peachy
   Assignments Due
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   Early March (TBD): Camera-ready Papers Due


About EduPar:

The EduPar workshop is designed in coordination with the NSF/TCPP
curriculum initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing (
http://tcpp.cs.gsu.edu/curriculum) and the Center for Parallel and
Distributed Curriculum Development and Educational Resources (CDER). EduPar
brings together individuals from academia, industry, and other educational
and research institutes to explore new ideas, challenges, and experiences
related to PDC pedagogy and curricula.  EduPar-20 marks the 10th year of
the EduPar workshop. As part of our 10 year milestone, EduPar-20 includes a
special focus on “looking back” to what we have accomplished over the past
10 years, and “looking forward” to challenges facing PDC education efforts
in response to future trends in parallel and distributed computing.   This
year, we particularly encourage submissions that fit into the EduPar-20
theme of “looking back” and “looking forward”.

Topics of interest:

We invite unpublished manuscripts on a broad range of topics pertaining to
the teaching of PDC topics in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering
curriculum, as well as in other domain-specific computational and data
science curricula.  We strongly encourage manuscripts that include a
systematic evaluation and analysis of the impact and performance of the
work. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

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   Emerging PDC topics to inform TCPP and related curricular efforts.
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   Curriculum design and models for incorporating PDC topics in CS/CE core
   curricula.
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   Pedagogical issues with incorporating PDC topics in CS/CE courses.
   -

   Experience incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses.
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   Experience incorporating PDC topics into new CS/CE curricula/courses, or
   other applications.
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   Pedagogical tools, programming environments, infrastructures, languages
   and projects for PDC.
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   Novel ways of teaching PDC topics, including informal learning
   environments.
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   Employers’ experiences and expectations of the PDC proficiency among new
   graduates.
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   Educational resources based on higher level programming languages such
   as X10, Chapel, Haskell, Python, Cilk, CUDA, OpenCL, OpenACC, Hadoop and
   Spark.
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   Educational resources for e-Learning, e-Laboratory, Massive Open Online
   Courses (MOOC), Small Private Online Courses (SPOC).
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   PDC experiences at non-university levels; secondary school,
   postgraduate, industry, diffusion of PDC.
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   Parallel and distributed models of programming/computation suitable for
   teaching, learning and workforce development.
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   Issues and experiences related to addressing diversity and broadening
   participation of underrepresented groups.


Submission Details:

See the EduPar-20 webpage for more details about paper, poster, and peachy
assignment submissions (https://tcpp.cs.gsu.edu/curriculum/?q=edupar20)


For questions about submissions: contact Tia Newhall (
newhall at cs.swarthmore.edu)
For questions about  peachy assignment submissions: contact David Bunde (d
bunde at knox.edu)
For questions about poster submissions: contact Martina Barnas (
Martina.barnas at gmail.com)

Workshop Organization:


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   Workshop Chair: Sushil Prasad (University of Texas at San Antonio)
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   Program Chair: Tia Newhall (Swarthmore College)
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   Program Vice-Chair and Peachy Assignments Chair: David Bunde (Knox
   College)
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   Poster Chair: Martina Barnas (Indiana University)
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   Proceedings Chair: Satish Puri (Marquette University)


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Tia Newhall
Professor, Computer Science Dept
Swarthmore College
www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~newhall
pronouns: she/her