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CALL FOR MINISYMPOSIA
Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing
PASC20

University of Geneva
Geneva - Switzerland
29 Jun - 01 Jul 2020

https://pasc20.pasc-conference.org

Deadline for Submitting an Expression of Interest:
Dec 06, 2019 (no extensions)

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The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) invites minisymposium
submissions for PASC20, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM) and SIGHPC, which will be held at the University of Geneva, Switzerland,
from June 29 to July 1, 2020.

PASC20 is the seventh edition of the PASC Conference series, an international
platform for the exchange of competences in scientific computing and
computational science, with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms,
application challenges, and novel techniques and usage of high performance
computing.

As in previous years, the technical program of PASC20 is organized around eight
scientific domains:

* Climate and Weather
* Chemistry and Materials
* Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
* Emerging Application Domains (incl. but not limited to social sciences,
finance)
* Engineering (incl. but not limited to CFD, computational mechanics,
computational engineering materials, turbulent flow)
* Life Sciences (incl. but not limited to biophysics, genomics, bioinformatics,
systems biology, neuroscience and computational biology)
* Physics (incl. but not limited to astrophysics, cosmology, plasma modelling,
QCD)
* Solid Earth Dynamics

A minisymposium is a two-hour session of four 30-minute slots on a topic of
current importance in computational science that showcases research related to
domain science, applied mathematics, computer science and software engineering,
and is an ideal platform for promoting interdisciplinary communication.
Proposals that address aspects emphasizing the theme of PASC20 – New
Challenges, New Computing Paradigms – are particularly welcome.

The minisymposium submission for PASC20 is a two-stage process. The first stage
is an expression of interest, which includes a description of the proposed
minisymposium (abstract) and suggestions for possible speakers who are experts
in their field(s). The expressions of interest will be reviewed by the
Minisymposia and Posters Program Committee
(https://pasc20.pasc-conference.org/about/minisymposia-and-posters-program-commi
ttee). A selection of submissions will be invited to submit a full proposal.

The review process will consider the relevance and timeliness of the proposal
topic as well as overall program balance.

The second stage, the full proposal, should include an extended abstract along
with the names of possible speakers and presentation titles for four 30-minute
presentation slots (typically, these slots are 25-minute talks with 5 minutes
for questions). The minisymposium organizer is permitted to give one of the
four presentations her/himself. If desired, the fourth 30-minute slot could be
a panel discussion or open discussion forum. Please note that until final
decisions are made, submissions should be considered as proposals, and no
guarantees should be made by organizers to speakers named on their proposals.

The organizer of a minisymposium takes an "active chair" role in their session
– that is, s/he should present a brief overview of the themes of the
minisymposium and the state of the art, introduce the speakers and their
topics, and facilitate a lively and interactive discussion amongst the speakers
and audience throughout the session.

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS

In order to be allowed to submit a full proposal, minisymposium organizers must
first submit an expression of interest.

The expression of interest consists of the following:

* Title
* Scientific domain(s): A primary domain and optionally additional domains.
* Organizer details: Full names and contact details of organizers (up to three).
* Abstract: Description of the minisymposium (up to 500 words), including
suggestions for topics and speakers.

Following the evaluation of the expressions of interest, organizers may be
invited to submit a full proposal. The full proposal consists of the following:

* Title
* Scientific domain(s): A primary domain and optionally additional domains.
* Organizer details: Full names and contact details of organizers (up to three).
* Presenter details: Full names and contact details of four proposed speakers
(three if the minisymposium proposal includes a discussion panel) and proposed
titles for their presentations.
* Extended abstract: A description of the minisymposium that outlines the
scope, describes the problems being addressed and their importance, and
discusses current directions of research and methods being developed to solve
these problems (up to 800 words).)
* Abstract for publication: A short abstract for publication in the conference
program (no more than 200 words).

If the proposal is accepted then presentation titles and abstracts (200 words)
will be requested from each speaker, and necessary revisions can be made to the
minisymposium abstract for publication in the conference program.

The expressions of interest and full proposals will be reviewed based on the
following criteria:

* The work should be of significant current interest to the given scientific
domain, and ideally, have potential application to other scientific domains.
* Research should be based on state-of-the-art numerical methods.
* The proposal should include speakers from multiple institutions and/or
countries, and be designed such that the speakers bring a range of different
perspectives and views to the topic.
* The proposal should consider diversity - including women and other
underrepresented groups.

Proposals must be submitted through the PASC20 online submission portal
(https://submissions.pasc-conference.org).

SUBMISSION DEADLINES

* 06 December 2019: Deadline for expressions of interest (no extensions)
* 17 December 2019: Decision notifications (invitations to submit full
proposals)
* 17 January 2020: Deadline for full proposals (no extensions)
* 21 February 2020: Acceptance notifications
* 22 March 2020: Deadline for abstracts from presenting speakers

Deadlines correspond to anywhere on earth ('AoE' or 'UTC-12').

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION TERMS

Please note that PASC20 is unable to reimburse the expenses or waive the
registration fees of organizers and speakers. All organizers and speakers must
register for the conference and are subject to the corresponding registration
fees.

MINISYMPOSIUM AND POSTERS PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

General Chairs
* Sinéad Ryan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
* Bastien Chopard (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Chemistry and Materials
* Silvana Botti (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Germany)
* David Benoit (University of Hull, UK)

Climate and Weather
* Joachim Biercamp (German Climate Computing Center, Germany)
* Zhenya Song (State Oceanic Administration, China)

Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
* Trilce Estrada (University of New Mexico, US)
* Stefan Wild (Argonne National Laboratory, US)

Emerging Application Domains
* Philipp Eisenhauer (University of Bonn, Germany)

Engineering
* Ramesh Balakrishnan (Argonne National Laboratory, US)
* Karlene Maskaly (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US)

Life Sciences
* Alfons Hoekstra (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
* Kirsten ten Tusschen (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

Physics
* Roger Käppeli (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
* Marina Krstic Marinkovic (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Solid Earth Dynamics
* Alice Gabriel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
* Chun Liu (Nanjing University, China)

If you have any questions regarding the submission or reviewing process please
email [email protected].