1997 Calendar of Events

Previous - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec - 1997 Eve nts of Interest

For more information on upcoming events at the Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC), contact Theresa Chatman, Manager of Outreach Programs, at tlc@cs.rice.edu. CRPC personnel may use the CRPC Calendar Entry Form to submit entries for their sites.

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August 1, 1996 - August 13

CRPC Visitor
Francisco Gomes

August 15, 1996 - August 15, 1998

CRPC Visitor
Amr El-Bakry

September 1, 1996 - April 30

CRPC Visitor
Stefan Ulbrich

September 1, 1996 - April 30

CRPC Visitor
Michael Ulbrich

January

January 1 - May 31

CRPC Visitor
Alexander Martin

January 30

CRPC Executive Committee Meeting
Sea Lodge Hotel, La Jolla, CA

February

February 1

CRPC Technology Summit for Middle and High School Students
Rice University, Gardiner-Symonds Laboratory, Houston, TX

February 4 - 14

CRPC Visitor
Luis Vicente

March

March 9 - 11

Cluster Computing Conference
Emory University, Atlanta, GA

March 12

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) Meeting
University of Texas, Austin, TX

March 13

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) Meeting
Rice University, Houston, TX

March 19 - 20

DoD Modernization Meeting
Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 1049, Houston, TX

March 22

Engineering Day Open House
Rice University, Houston, TX

March 24 - 25

Computers: The Machines, Science, People and Careers!
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

March 24 - 28

CRPC Visitor
Florian Potra

March 25

CRPC/CAAM Speaker
Franz Rys
"Stability Analysis of the Boundary Layer Flow Equation"
Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 3092, Houston, TX

March 26

CRPC/CAAM Speaker
Florian Potra
"Modeling Rigid Multi-body Dynamics with Contact and Friction"
Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 1070, Houston, TX

April

April 5

Expanding your Horizons Conference
The Rice School, Houston, TX

April 11

Walnut Bend Elementary Visit
Rice University, Houston, TX

May

May 12 - August 15

Spend a Summer with a Scientist
Rice University, Houston, TX

May 20

CRPC Tutorial
Rice University, Houston, TX

May 21 - 22

CRPC Annual Meeting
Rice University, Houston, TX

May 23

CRPC External Advisory and Executive Committee Meetings
Rice University, Houston, TX

May 26 - June 9

CRPC Visitor
Volker Schulz

June

June 2 - 13

South Texas Science Academy Program
Rice University, Houston, TX

June 2 - August 9

Research Experiences in High Performance Computing (REU)
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

June 9 - 20

Mathematical and Computational Sciences Awareness/GirlTECH Workshop
Rice University, Houston, TX

June 15 - 19

Milby Science Institute, Summer Intern Program Rice University, Houston, TX

June 16 - August 22

Summer Research in Parallel Computing for Undergraduate Women
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

June 16 - August 22

Summer Research in Parallel Computing for Undergraduate Minorities
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

July

July 3 - 13

CRPC Visitor
Luis Vicente

July 21

GirlTECH Follow-up Internet Training Session
Gardner Symonds Laboratory, Rice University, Houston, TX

July 21 - August 3

CRPC Visitor
Pablo Tarazaga

July 21 - August 20

CRPC Visitor
Maria Gonzalez-Lima

August

August 1 - August 1, 1998

CRPC Visitor
Jose Farah

September

September

National High Performance Software Exchange(NHSE) Meeting
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL

September 1 - September 1, 1998

CRPC Visitor
Trond Steihaug

September 11 - 12

SIO Sponsors Review
Rice University, Houston, TX

October

October 1 - December 31

CRPC Visitor
Mahmoud El-Alem

October 6 - 19

CRPC Visitor
Michael Ulbrich

October 6 - 19

CRPC Visitor
Stefan Ulbrich

October 11

K-12 Science and Mathematics Enrichment Seminar
Adams Mark Hotel, Houston, TX

October 13

Texas Meeting
Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 1049, Houston, TX

October 30

CRPC Speaker
Michael Mascagni
"SPRNG: A Scalable Library For Pseudorandom Number Generation"
Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 1064, Houston, TX

November

November 3

CRPC Executive Committee Teleconference
Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 2056, Houston, TX

November 7

CRPC Visitor
Chuan-hou Yang

November 15 - 21

Supercomputing '97
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA

December

1998 Events

May

CRPC Visitor
Maurizio Bruglieri and/or Pierluigi Maponi

June 24 - 28

SC-COSMIC "Status of Minority Institutions" Conference
Rice University, Houston, TX

1998 Conference Possibilities

Spring

Rice University Outreach Event
Rice University, Houston, TX

June

Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences Annual Conference
Rice University, Houston, TX

February 5 - 8

Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) '97 State Conference
Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas. The Workshop Proposal Deadline is July 10, 1996, and the Presentation, Panel, or Poster Proposal Deadline is September 1, 1996. The Executive Director (Proposal Contact Person) is Robert Knight (email: rknight@tenet.edu).

February 24 - 26

The First Annual HPF User Group Meeting will be held February 24 to 26, 1997, at the El Dorado Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. At this time, it is anticipated that the meeting will end around noon on Wednesday. The meeting will provide an opportunity for users of HPF to meet each other, share ideas and experience, and get up-to-date information about implementations and future directions.

March 12 - 13

A Workshop on Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Grid Methods will be held by the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications at the University of Minnesota. Further information on registration, accomodations, and travel is available at the following Web site: http://www.cse.nd.edu/amr/wshop.html

April 1 - 5

The11th International Parallel Processing Symposium will be held April 1 to 5, 1997 at the University of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland. The Symposium is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing in cooperation with ACM SIGARCH. Contact people are General Co-chairs: Viktor K. Prasanna (email: ipps97@ganges.usc.edu) and Jose D. P. Rolim (email: ipps97@cui.unige.ch).

April 5

The Sam Houston Conference for Secondary School Students and Teachers will be held by the Sam Houston Association of Computer Scientists at SHSU in Huntsville, Texas from 8:30 AM - 4 PM. For more information, please contact Jan Carroll at (409) 294-1874.

April 20 - 26

National Science and Technology Week '97, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, takes place nationwide this week.

June 14 - 19

The ED-MEDIA and ED-TELECOM 97: World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia and World Conference on Educational Telecommunications will be held from June 14 - 19, 1997 at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Canada. The presenter submission deadline is October 25, 1996. Presenter information can be found at http://curry.edschool.Virginia.edu/aace/conf/emedia/call97.html. The early registration deadline is May 16, 1997, and presenters can contact AACE@virginia.edu for more information.

June 16 - 19

The 30th International Symposium on Automotive Technology & Automation takes place in Florence, Italy. To learn more, please contact ISATA at 100270.1263@compuserve.com or visit the ISATA web site at http://www.isata.com

June 21

The ACM 1997 Workshop on Java for Science and Engineering Computation will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada. Papers should be submitted to Geoffrey C. Fox (wei@cs.rochester.edu) by April 10. For more information, please visit the workshop's homepage at: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/wei/javaworkshop.html

June 30 - July 2

The NECC '97: 1997 National Educational Computing Conference will be held at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington from June 30 - July 2. The presenter deadline is October 15, 1996 and presenter information can be obtained at http://isteonline.uoregon.edu/necc/necc97ca/neccall.html. For more information, visit the world wide web page at http://www.wce.wwu.edu/nec97/.

July 14 - 18

The SIAM 45th Anniversary Meeting will be held at Stanford University in Pallo Alto, California. For more detailed information, access the web page at http://www.siam.org/conf.html.

July 20 - 23

The Fourth Advanced Cement-Based Materials Faculty Workshop, ÒTeaching the Materials Science, Engineering, and Field Aspects of ConcreteÓ, will take place at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. For more information, e-mail acbm@nwu.edu or look up: http://www.civil.nwu.edu/ACBM/facultyworkshop.html.

August 18 - 22

The National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) will host a Parallel Computing Institute at the San Diego Supercomputer Center in San Diego, California. The application deadline is May 15, 1997, and more information can be obtained at: http://www.sdsc.edu/Par_Inst

August 27 - 29

ÒControl of Oscillations and ChaosÓ First International Conference will take place at the "Dom Uchenyh" ("House of Scientists") in St. Petersburg, Russia. Advance registration (before June 15, 1997) is recommended. Standby paper submission deadline is August 23, 1997. To learn more, contact the COC Secretariat at coc97@ccs.ipme.ru or look up: http://www.ipme.ru/coc97.html

September 8 - 12

The II Pan-American Workshop in Applied and Computational Mathematics will proceed at Hotel Serrano in Gramado, Brazil. For more information, please e-mail panam97@mat.ufrgs.br or visit the web site at: http://math.unm.edu/ACA/PanAm.html

September 16-17

Workshop on Seamless Computing to be held at the European Center on Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in Reading, England. For more information, see http://www.ecmwf.int/html/seamless

October 9 - 12

The SACNAS Annual Meeting will be held at the Adams Mark Hotel in Houston, Texas. Detailed information can be obtained at: http://www.sacnas.org/.

October 13 - 15

The International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD '97) will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas. Paper submission deadline is February 28, 1997. For more information, access the world wide web page at http://www.cerec.utexas.edu/iccd97.html. Inquiries about paper submission should be emailed to Professor Bing Sheu at iccd97@pacific.usc.edu

October 15 - 17

The 4th NASA National Symposium on Large-Scale Analysis and Design on High-Performance Computers and Workstations will take place at the Hospitality House in Williamsburg, Virginia. Paper submission deadline is April 15, 1997. For more information visit their web page at http://www.pobox.com/~symposium or send e-mail to symposium@larc.nasa.gov

October 16-18

Education One-Third of a Nation VI: Diversity, Opportunity, and American Achievement
Hyatt regency Maimi; Maimi, Florida; For more information, contact the American Council on Education, Office of Minorities in Higher education, Department 36, Wachington, DC, 20055-0036; (202) 939-9396; (202) 785-8056(fax)

October 18

14th Annual TCEA Area IV Fall Conference of the Texas Computer Education Association at Conroe High School in Conroe, TX. Presenter Proposal Deadline: 8/15/1997; Presenter Contact Person: Stephanie Green (slgreen@tenet.edu); Computer Science Strand Contact Person: Karen North (knorth@cs.rice.edu)

October 19 - 24

IEEE Visualization'97 Conference will be held at the Sheraton Crescent Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona. Paper submission deadline is March 31, 1997. For further information, contact one of the Conference Co-Chairs: Robert Moorhead (rjm@erc.msstate.edu) or Nancy Johnston (NEJohnston@lbl.gov), or see http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis97

October 31 - November 5

WebNet 97: A World Conference of the WWW, Internet, and Intranet, sponsored by The Web Society and the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), will be held in Toronto, Canada. Presenter submission deadline is February 28, 1997, and more information is available at http://aace.virginia.edu/aace/conf/webnet/call97.html

November 4 - 6

AUTOFACT '97: Integrating the Design & Manufacturing Proceses will be held at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. For more information about exhibiting or participating in the conference, call James at (800) 733-3976, or visit the World Wide Web page of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers at http://www.sme.org.

November 13-16

ISTE T97 Tel Ed Sixth International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia in Education to be held in Austin, TX and Mexico City, Mexico. Sponsored by International Society for Techonology in Education (ISTE), Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA), and Instituto Latinamericano de Comunicacion Educativa (ILCE). For more information, contact Laurie Thornley (laurie_thornley@ccmail.uoregon.edu) or see the webpage at http://www.iste.org/conferences/teled97/97call.html

November 17

The Fifth Annual Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems (IOPADS) in conjunction with SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing will be held in San Jose, California. Paper submission deadline is March 27, 1997. For more information, access the World Wide Web page at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/iopads. General inquiries should be sent to iopads@cs.dartmouth.edu.

November 20 - 22

"Breaking the Silence: Overcoming Myths About Student Achievement, Kindergarten Through College", the Education Trust Conference, will be at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC. To obtain more details, please contact the Education Trust at (202) 293-1217 x314 or look up the World Wide Web page at http://www.edtrust.org/call.htm

November 29 - December 3

1997 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and It's Applications (NOLTA '97), Hilton Hawaiian Village, Hawaii;Authors' Schedule: Deadline for submission of summaries-July 19, 1997; Notification of Acceptance-August-30, 1997; For more information, send mail to nolta97@mamoru.ee.sophia.ac.jp or visit the home page at http://www.tlab.ee.sophia.ac.jp/nolta97/.

December 1 - 6

A conference titled "Neural Information Processing Systems -- Natural and Synthetic" will take place in Denver, Colorado. The contact is Tony Bell (tony@salk.edu), and more information can be found at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/NIPS

December 5 - 7

Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX will host the Computational Biomedicine Symposium. This is sponsored by Silicon Graphics Inc., National Science Foundation, National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, Biomedical Computation and Visualization Laboratory and Graduate Program of Structural & Computational Biology & Molecular Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine.

For more information on any of these activities, contact Theresa Chatman,

Last updated: November 20, 1997.

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