1997 Calendar of Events Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC) For more information on any of these activities, contact Theresa Chatman, Rice University, CRPC, MS-41, 6100 South Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005, 713-527-6077, 713-285-5136 (fax), tlc@rice.edu. 8/1/96 - 8/13 CRPC Visitor Francisco Gomes Danny Sorensen/tlc 8/15/96 - 8/15/98 CRPC Visitor Amr El-Bakry Richard Tapia/tlc 9/1/96 - 4/30 CRPC VIsitor Michael Ulbrich John Dennis/tlc 9/1/96 - 4/30 CRPC Visitor Stefan Ulbrich John Dennis/tlc 1/1 - 5/31 CRPC Visitor Alexander Martin Bob Bixby/tlc 1/30 CRPC Executive Committee Meeting Sea Lodge Hotel La Jolla, CA Ken Kennedy/kem/tlc 2/1 CRPC Technology Summit for Middle and High School Students Rice University, Gardiner-Symonds Laboratory Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/cl/dc 2/4-14 CRPC Visitor Luis Vicente John Dennis/tlc 3/9-11 Cluster Computing Conference Emory University Atlanta, GA Jack Dongarra/tlc 3/12 Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) Meeting University of Texas Austin, TX Mary Wheeler/kem/tlc 3/13 Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) Meeting Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 1049 Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/kem/tlc 3/19-20 DoD Modernization Meeting Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 1049 Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/Chuck Koelbel/tlc 3/22 Engineering Day Open House Rice University Houston, TX Dean Carroll/Hardy Bourland/sg/al/tlc 3/24-25 Computers: The Machines, Science, People and Careers! California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA Herb Keller/jb 3/24-28 CRPC Visitor Florian Potra Richard Tapia/tlc 3/25 CRPC/CAAM Speaker Franz Rys "Stability Analysis of the Boundary Layer Flow Equation" Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 3092 Houston, TX Petr Kloucek/tlc 3/26 CRPC/CAAM Speaker Florian Potra "Modeling Rigid Multi-body Dynamics with Contact and Friction" Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 1070 Houston, TX Richard Tapia/tlc 4/5 Expanding Your Horizons Conference The Rice School Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/kem/dc/tlc 4/11 Walnut Bend Elementary Visit Rice University Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/sh/dc/tlc 5/12 - 8/15 Spend a Summer with a Scientist Program Rice University Houston, TX Richard Tapia/tlc 5/20 CRPC Tutorial Rice University Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/kem/tlc 5/21-22 CRPC Annual Meeting Rice University Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/kem/tlc 5/23 CRPC External Advisory and Executive Committee Meetings Rice University Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/kem/tlc 5/26 - 6/9 CRPC Visitor Volker Schulz John Dennis/tlc 6/2-13 South Texas Science Academy Program Rice University Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/jo/tlc 6/2 - 8/9 Research Experiences for Undergraduates in High Performance Computing (REU) Syracuse University Syracuse, NY Geoffrey Fox/Nancy McCracken 6/9-20 Mathematical and Computational Sciences Awareness/GirlTECH Workshop Rice University Houston, TX Richard Tapia/cl/dc/tlc 6/15 - 6/19 Milby Science Institute Summer Intern Program Rice University Houston, TX 6/16 - 8/22 Summer Research Program in Parallel Computing for Undergraduate Women California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA Herb Keller/jb 6/16 - 8/22 Summer Research Program in Parallel Computing for Undergraduate Minorities California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA Herb Keller/jb 7/3-13 CRPC Visitor Luis Vicente John Dennis/tlc 7/21 GirlTECH Follow-up Internet Training Session Gardner Symonds Laboratory, Rice University Houston, TX Richard Tapia/tlc 7/21 - 8/3 CRPC Visitor Pablo Tarazaga Richard Tapia/tlc 7/21 - 8/20 CRPC Visitor Maria Gonzalez-Lima Richard Tapia/tlc 8/1 - 8/1/98 CRPC Visitor Jose Farah John Dennis/tlc 9/97 National High Performance Software Exchange Meeting Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL Ken Kennedy/Rick Stevens 9/1 - 9/1/98 CRPC Visitor Trond Steihaug Richard Tapia/Dan Sorensen/tlc 9/11-12 SIO Sponsors Review Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 1049 Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/Paul Messina/Jim Pool/tlc 10/1 - 12/31 CRPC Visitor Mahmoud El-Alem John Dennis/tlc 10/6-19 CRPC Visitor Michael Ulbrich John Dennis/Matthias Heinkenschloss/tlc 10/6-19 CRPC Visitor Stefan Ulbrich John Dennis/Matthias Heinkenschloss/tlc 10/11 K-12 Science and Mathematics Enrichment Seminar Adams Mark Hotel, Houston, TX Richard Tapia/kem/ln/tlc 10/13 Texas Meeting Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 1049 Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/Mary Wheeler/tlc 10/30 CRPC Speaker Michael Mascagni "SPRNG: A Scalable Library for Pseudorandom Number Generation" Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 1064 Houston, TX Chuck Koelbel/tlc 11/3 CRPC Executive Committee Teleconference Rice University, Duncan Hall Room 2056 Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/tlc 11/7 CRPC Visitor Chuan-hou Yang Dan Sorensen/tlc 11/15-21 Supercomputing '97 San Jose Convention Center San Jose, CA Ken Kennedy/kem/tlc 1998 Calendar of Events 5/98 CRPC Visitor Maurizio Bruglieri and/or Pierluigi Maponi John Dennis/tlc 6/24-28 SC-COSMIC "Status of Minority Institutions" Conference Rice University Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/Richard Tapia/kem/tlc 1998 Conference Possibilities Spring 1998 Rice University Outreach Event Rice University Houston, TX Roland Smith/tlc 6/98 Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences Annual Conference Rice University Houston, TX Richard Tapia/tlc 1997 Events of Interest 2/5-8 Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) '97 State Conference Austin Convention Center Austin, TX Austin Convention Center Home Page: http://198.148.149.11/cchome.html TCEA Home Page: http://www-tcea.cc.utexas.edu/html/tcea/tceamain.html Workshop Proposal Deadline: July 10, 1996 Presentation, Panel, or Poster Proposal Deadline: September 1, 1996 Executive Director (Proposal Contact Person) : Robert Knight (rknight@tenet.edu) 2/24-26 First Annual HPF User Group Meeting Eldorado Hotel Santa Fe, NM Sponsored by the Center for Research on Parallel Computation at the Los Alamos National Laboratory HPF Tutorials will be held February 23, 1997 Paper/Poster Abstract Submission Deadline: January 16, 1997 Abstracts should be submitted to hpf97@lanl.gov Registration Deadline: January 24, 1997 For more information, see the World Wide Web site at http://www.lanl.gov/HPF 3/12-13 Workshop on Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Grid Methods Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications 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 4/1-5 11th International Parallel Processing Symposium University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing in cooperation with ACM SIGARCH Additional information may be obtained on the Web (http://www.ippsxx.org) or contact one of the General Co-Chairs: Viktor K. Prasanna (ipps97@ganges.usc.edu), Jose D. P. Rolim (ipps97@cui.unige.ch) 4/5 Sam Houston Conference for Secondary Students and Teachers Sam Houston State University Huntsville, TX 8:30 AM - 4 PM Contact Jan Carroll at (409) 294-1874 for more information. 4/20-26 National Science and Technology Week '97 Activities being held nationwide. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (http://www.nsf.gov/) For more information, look up http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nstw/ 6/14-19 ED-MEDIA and ED-TELECOM 97: World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia and World Conference on Educational Telecommunications University of Calgary Calgary, Canada Presenter Submission Deadline: October 25, 1996 Presenter information: http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/aace/conf/edmedia/call97.html Presenter contact: AACE@virginia.edu Early registration deadline: May 16, 1997 6/16-19 30th International Symposium on Automotive Technology & Automation Florence, Italy For more information, please contact ISATA at 100270.1263@compuserve.com or visit the ISATA web site at http://www.isat.com 6/21 ACM 1997 Workshop on Java for Science and Engineering Computation Las Vegas, NV Paper Submission Deadline: April 10, 1997 For more information, please contact Geoffrey C. Fox (gcf@npac.syr.edu) or Wei Li (wei@cs.rochester.edu), or visit the workshop's homepage at http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/wei/javaworkshop.html 6/30 - 7/2 NECC '97: 1997 National Educational Computing Conference Washington State Convention and Trade Center Seattle, WA Presenter deadline: October 15, 1996 Presenter information: http://isteonline.uoregon.edu/necc/necc97ca/neccall.htm For more information, visit the World Wide Web page at http://www.wce.wwu.edu/necc97/ 7/14-18 SIAM 45th Anniversary Meeting Stanford University Palo Alto, CA Detailed information at: http://www.siam.org/conf.htm 7/20-23 Fourth Advanced Cement-Based Materials Faculty Workshop ÒTeaching the Materials Science, Engineering, and Field Aspects of ConcreteÓ Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA For more information, e-mail acbm@nwu.edu or look up: http://www.civil.nwu.edu/ACBM/facultyworkshop.html 8/18-22 NPACI Parallel Computing Institute San Diego Supercomputer Center San Diego, CA Application deadline: May 15, 1997 More information at: http://www.sdsc.edu/Par_Inst 8/27-29 "Control of Oscillations and Chaos" First International Conference "Dom Uchenyh" ("House of Scientists") St. Petersburg, Russia Advance registration (before June 15, 1997) is recommended Standby Paper Submission Deadline: August 23, 1997 To learn more, contact the COC Secretariat at coc97@ccs.ipme.ru or look up: http://www.ipme.ru/coc97.html 9/8-12 II Pan-American Workshop in Applied and Computational Mathematics Hotel Serrano 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 9/16-17 Workshop on Seamless Computing European Center on Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Reading, England For more information, see http://www.ecmwf.int/html/seamless/ 10/9-12 SACNAS Annual Meeting Adams Mark Houston, TX Detailed information at: http://www.sacnas.org/ 10/13-15 International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD '97) Hyatt Regency Austin, TX Paper Submission Deadline: February 28, 1997 For more information, see the World Wide Web page at http://www.cerec.utexas.edu/iccd97.html. Inquiries about paper submissions should be e-mailed to Professor Bing Sheu at iccd97@pacific.usc.edu 10/15-17 4th NASA National Symposium on Large-Scale Analysis and Design on High- Performance Computers and Workstations Hospitality House Williamsburg, VA Paper Submission Deadline: April 15 For more information, go to http://www.pobox.com/~symposium or send e- mail to symposium@larc.nasa.gov 10/16-18 Education One-Third of a Nation VI: Diversity, Opportunity, and American Achievement Hyatt Regency Miami Maimi, Florida For more information, contact the American Council on Education, Office of Minorities in Higher education, Department 36, Washington, DC, 20055-0036; (202) 939-9396, (202)785-8056(fax) 10/18 14th Annual TCEA Area IV Conference Area IV Fall Conference of the Texas Computer Education Association Conroe High School 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) 10/19-24 IEEE Visualization '97 Conference Sheraton Crescent Hotel Phoenix, AZ Paper Submission Deadline: 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 10/31 - 11/5 WebNet 97: A World Conference of the WWW, Internet, and Intranet Toronto, Canada Sponsored by The Web Society and the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) Presenter Submission Deadline: February 28, 1997 More information available at: http://aace.virginia.edu/aace/conf/webnet/call97.html 11/4-6 AUTOFACT '97: Integrating the Design & Manufacturing Processes Cobo Center Detroit, MI For 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. 11/13-16 ISTE T97 Tel Ed Sixth International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia in Education 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 11/17 Fifth Annual Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems (IOPADS) in conjunction with SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing San Jose, CA Paper Submission Deadline: March 27, 1997 For more information, check the World Wide Web page at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/iopads. General inquiries should be sent to iopads@cs.dartmouth.edu 11/20-22 Education Trust Conference Breaking the Silence: Overcoming Myths About Student Achievement, Kindergarten Through College Grand Hyatt Hotel 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 11/29-12/3 1997 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its 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/ 12/1-6 Neural Information Processing Systems - Natural and Synthetic Denver, CO Contact Tony Bell (tony@salk.edu) or look up the website at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/NIPS for more information. 12/5-7 Computational Biomedicine Symposium Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX 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. Updated: November 20, 1997