[CIG-ALL] Call for Abstracts for PASC16: Minisymposia, Contributed Talks and Posters

[van Dinther Ylona]

Dear colleagues interested in both the Solid Earth and High Performance Computing,

We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming PASC16 conference, where our Solid Earth community gets the chance to discuss and collaborate with HPC and computer scientists. Its Solid Earth Track target areas e.g., include Computational Geodynamics and Seismology, Exploration Geophysics and the Geodynamo, all in relation to computational methods and applications, novel computer architectures and HPC platforms. If this interests you, please find more details within the official call copied below.

PASC16 will be held from June 8 to 10, 2016 in Lausanne, Switzerland (http://www.pasc16.org/).

Kind regards on behalf of the solid earth track committee,

Andy Jackson
Johan Robertsson
Jeroen Tromp
Ylona van Dinther


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PASC16 Conference
First Call for Abstracts for Minisymposia, Contributed Talks and Posters

Solid Earth Track:
Computational Seismology, Exploration Geophysics, Computational Geodynamics and Mantle convection, Geodynamo, Computational Methods and Applications (both in Academia and Industry), Novel Computer Architectures and HPC platforms

The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) is delighted to launch a Call for Abstracts for its next conference (PASC16) cosponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).  The Conference will be held from June 8 to 10, 2016 at the SwissTech Convention Center, located on the campus of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

PASC16 Conference
June 8-10, 2016
SwissTech Convention Center
EPFL, Switzerland
www.pasc16.org<http://www.pasc16.org/>

The PASC Conference is a platform for interdisciplinary research across the areas of computational science, high-performance computing, and various domain sciences: Climate and Weather, Computer Science & Mathematics, Emerging Domains, Engineering, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics, and Solid Earth. PASC16 builds on a successful history with 350 international attendees in 2015. This year PASC continues to expand its program and welcomes your participation in a substantially larger event.

TARGETED AUDIENCE
The PASC16 Conference seeks to engage participants from academia, research labs and industry to address important issues in HPC and computational science. The PASC16 Conference is inviting researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange of expertise. The conference is an opportunity for researchers in branches of science that require computer modeling and high-performance simulations to discuss computational techniques and technologies.

PROGRAM
The PASC16 Conference will offer five plenary lectures and one public lecture, complemented by minisymposia, contributed talks and poster sessions in its eight different scientific domains. It will also present for the first time a session dedicated to papers selected for publication in the ACM Digital Library (a call for papers will be distributed separately). Furthermore, CSCS will organize the CSCS Update Meeting targeting mainly our user community.  The program will provide time for discussions within PASC scientific disciplines (inter-PASC Networks discussions), and an exhibition space.

CONTRIBUTIONS
Researchers from academia and industry are encouraged to participate and present their research in the form of minisymposia, contributed talks and/or poster presentations. PASC16 welcomes abstract submissions (1000 characters including spaces) in the following scientific fields:

•      Climate and Weather
•      Computer Science & Mathematics
•      Emerging Domains (Special Topic: HPC and Big Data)
•      Engineering
•      Life Sciences
•      Materials
•      Physics
•      Solid Earth

Contributions should be submitted using the online submission system. Guidelines regarding the submission process and access to the online submission system are available at: http://www.pasc16.org/submission/

FOCUS OF THE SOLID EARTH TRACK
Within the field of the Solid Earth we welcome contributions in a wide range of disciplines that rely on high-performance computing and computational science, including papers focused on:

•      Seismology, exploration geophysics, flow in porous media, Earth and planetary dynamos, geodynamics and mantle convection

•      Problems on a wide range of time and spatial scales

•      Methods or applications (both in academia and industry)

•      Novel computer architectures and HPC platforms

SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Minisymposia: January 12, 2016
Contributed Talks: March 2, 2016
Posters: April 3, 2016

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Jan Hesthaven, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Nicola Marzari, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Olaf Schenk, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Laurent Villard, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE TRACK CHAIRS
Climate & Weather: Peter Bauer, ECMWF, UK
Computer Science & Mathematics: Bastien Chopard, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Emerging Domains: Costas Bekas, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
Engineering: William Curtin, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Physics: Lucio Mayer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Materials: Gian-Marco Rignanese, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Solid Earth: Johan Robertsson, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Life Sciences: Felix Schürmann, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland

SOLID EARTH TRACK COMMITTEE
Andy Jackson, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Johan Robertsson, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University, USA
Ylona van Dinther, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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Please refer to PASC16 website for further information about the conference and the supporting organization:
www.pasc16.org<http://www.pasc16.org/>

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