[hpc-announce] ISPDC 2022 Keynote Speakers, Social Event, and Early Registration Deadline Approaching

[Srivastava, Srishti]

The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2022)
July 11-13, 2022, Basel, Switzerland
*** In-person event ***

https://ispdc2022.dmi.unibas.ch
https://twitter.com/ISPDC2022 (@ISPDC2022)


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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https://ispdc2022.dmi.unibas.ch/keynote-speakers/

We have the great pleasure to announce our Distinguished Keynote Speakers as follows:

- JOSEPH SIFAKIS (Verimag Laboratory, Grenoble, France), Turing Award Winner -- Why is it so Hard to Make Self-driving Cars? (Trustworthy Autonomous Systems)

- ROSA M. BADIA (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) -- Easy Development and Execution of Workflows with eFlows4HPC

- JEAN-JACQUES QUISQUATER (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) -- >From Timestamping Process to Blockchains and More

- RACHID GUERRAOUI (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) -- The Road to a Universal Internet Machine


SOCIAL EVENT
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Hiking in the Swiss mountains - July 14, 2022 (full day)

The social event of ISPDC 2022 will be a hike around Oeschinen Lake (Oeschinensee). The Oeschinen Lake is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and it is considered by many to be the most beautiful mountain lake in the Swiss Alps. The lake is located above the city Kandersteg in the Bern canton, 160 km from Basel. The travel by train and cable car to the Oeschinen Lake will be organized by the ISPDC 2022 Local Organizing Committee. All participants that register for this social event will receive travel tickets and a lunch bag.


ACCOMMODATION IN BASEL
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A room block for ISPDC 2022 attendees has been reserved in two hotels close to the conference venue.
Information on this opportunity and other hotels is available on the conference website:
https://ispdc2022.dmi.unibas.ch/home/venue/accommodation/


REGISTRATION DEADLINES
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https://ispdc2022.dmi.unibas.ch/registration/

Early registration deadline: June 27, 2022
Late registration deadline: July 4, 2022


SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS
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IEEE
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
IEEE Switzerland Section
IEEE Switzerland Chapter on Digital Communication Systems
University of Basel
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science


ISPDC 2022 COMMITTEES
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Program Committee
https://ispdc2022.dmi.unibas.ch/people/

General Chair
Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland

Program Committee Co-Chairs
Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Giorgos Goumas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Proceedings Chair
Ali Mohammed, HPE HPC/AI EMEA Research Lab, Switzerland

Publicity Chair
Alexandru Costan, INRIA Rennes, France

Sincerely,
Srishti Srivastava, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
University of Southern Indiana
ISPDC 2022 Publicity Chair, Northern America
On behalf of,
ISPDC 2022 Organizing Committee