PASC15 Conference, June 1-3, 2015, ETH Zurich - Call for Participation

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

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), 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

**********

Please refer to PASC15 website for further information about the conference and the supporting organization:

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@usi.ch            **  http://www.ics.inf.usi.ch