1999 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 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005, 713-285-5180, 713-285-5136 (fax), tlc@rice.edu. 6/1/98 - 5/31/00 CRPC Visitor Charles Audet Rice University, Duncan Hall, Room 3050 Houston, TX John Dennis/tlc 9/1/98-5/31/99 CRPC Visitor David Whalley Rice University, Duncan Hall, Room 3077 Houston, TX Ken Kennedy/tlc 1/15 Performance Oriented End-to-End Modeling Systems (POEMS) Meeting Rice University, Duncan Hall, Room 1049 Houston, TX Vikram Adve/tlc 2/1-2 Tutorial on 3D Visualization Programming Toolkits Rice University, Duncan Hall, NEC Laboratory Houston, TX Vikram Adve/Ed Chen/kob/tlc 3/11-12 Sloan Conference Rice University, Duncan Hall, Room 1064 Houston, TX Richard Tapia/cl/tlc 6/1-12 South Texas Science Academy Program Rice University Houston, TX Fred Rudolph/Richard Tapia/jo/tlc 6/13-18 Milby Science Institute Summer Intern Program Rice University Houston, TX Fred Rudolph/Richard Tapia/cl/jo/tlc 6/28-29 CRPC Book Review Meeting Arlington Hilton Arlington, VA Ken Kennedy/tlc 7/12-23 GirlTECH/Mathematical and Computational Sciences Awareness Workshop Rice University, Duncan Hall and La Escuela Rice Houston, TX Richard Tapia/cl/tlc 1999 Events of Interest 1/9-12 The Fifth International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA - 5) Sheraton World Resort Orlando, FL Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Paper submission deadline: June 26, 1998 Author notification: September 28, 1998 Camera-ready copies: October 23, 1998 Send papers to hpca5@usc.edu For additional information contact Jean-Luc Gaudiot (USC 213-740-4484, 213- 740-9803 fax) or visit the homepage at http://www.cse.psu.edu/hpca5/ 2/13-16 American Council on Education 81st Annual Meeting Grand Hyatt Hotel Washington, DC Speakers include Alan Greenspan, Elizabeth Dole, Derek Bok, Walter Massey, William G. Bowen and Michael Beschloss For information see http://www.acenet.edu/ 2/28-3/4 Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education Int'l Conference San Antonio Convention Center San Antonio, TX Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education Call for participation deadline October 15, 1998 For more information see http://www.aace.org/ or email AACE@virginia.edu 3/1-4 International Conference on Mathematics/Science Technology (M/SET 99) San Antonio Convention Center San Antonio, TX Hosted by University of Houston and University of Texas-San Antonio Sponsored by Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching (JCMST) and Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education Held concurrently with SITE 99 Meeting Paper submission deadline: October 15, 1998 Authors notified: November 17, 1998 Proceedings submission: December 10, 1998 Pre-registration deadline: January 20, 1998 For additional information see http://www.aace.org/conf/mset/ or email AACE@virginia.edu 3/22-25 WESTEC '99 Los Angeles Convention Center Los Angeles, CA North America's Largest Annual Metalworking and Manufacturing Exposition For more information call 800-733-4763 3/22-27 NRMCA and CONEXPO-CON/AG Educational Seminars For more information call 800-84NRMCA or 301-587-1400 3/25-28 National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) 1999 National Convention Boston, MA For more information see http://www.nsta.org/conv/natgen.htm 3/29-31 IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC'Õ99) Snowbird, UT Papers due November 16, 1998 For more information see http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dcc/ 4/12-14 HPCN Europe Rai Conference Center, Amsterdam Early registration deadline February 28, 1999 For more information see http://www.wins.uva.nl/events/HPCN99/ 4/14-16 24th Annual AAAS Colloquium on Science and Technology Policy "Science, Technology and the Knowledge Economy" The Renaissance Hotel Washington, DC For more information see http://www.aaas.org/spp/r&d/ 4/30 - 5/1 1999 FCRC Computing Research Association Workshop on Research Careers for Women in Computer Science and Engineering Atlanta, Georgia 5/2-6 Eleventh Annual Software Technology Conference Salt Lake City Convention Center Salt Lake City, UT For more information see Angie Griffeth, Trade Show Coordinator, 435-797- 0047 or email stcexhibits@ext.usu.edu or http://www.stc-online.org/exhibit/ 5/17-8/13 Diversity Graduate Program in Science and Engineering Rice University Houston, TX Application deadline: April 15 For more information contact Theresa Chatman at tlc@rice.edu 6/27-30 High Performance Computing on Hewlett-Packard Systems 99 (HiPer 99) University of Tromsoe, Norway Deadline abstract receipt, April 9 Deadline for final papers, May 24 Deadline for virtual posters, June 11 For more information see http://www.hpc.uit.no/hiper99/ 6/28-7/1 1999 International Conferences "Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications" PDPTA "Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology" CISST "Artificial Intelligence" IC-AI Monte Carlo Resort Las Vegas, Nevada Deadline for draft papers: March 1, 1999 For more information see http://www.jhpc.org/pdpta/ or http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/cisst/ or http://www.jhpc.org/icai/ 7/18-21 ACBM's Sixth Faculty Enhancement Workshop/Symposium Northwestern University Chicago, IL For more information see http://www.civil.nwu.edu/ACBM/ 7/15-17 Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems (NDES '99) Workshop Hotel Griffen Roenne on the Danish Island of Bornholm Department of Information Technology, Technical University of Denmark Deadlines: 3/9/99 - submission of summary, 4/26/99 - notification of acceptance, 6/4/99 - submission of camera-ready paper Submit work before 3/9/99 to ndes99@iee1.et.tu-dresden.de For more information see http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/~ndes99/ 8/10-12 SIGGRAPH 99 Los Angeles Convention Center Los Angeles, CA Showcases of the latest products and services available in the computer graphics industry For more information contact Exhibition Management at 630-434-7779 or 630- 434-1216 (fax) or email halleric@siggraph.org or visit their website at http://www.siggraph.org/s99/ 8/17-20 PARCO '99 Delft, The Netherlands Deadline for abstracts: February 28, 1999 Deadline for full papers: July 15, 1999 For more information see http://www.parco99.tudelft.nl/ or email parco99@tudelft.nl or call 31-15-2788700 10/7-10 SACNAS National Conference Portland, OR Promoting graduate education in minority communities For more information see http://www.sacnas.org/ or email info@sacnas.org or call 831-459-1070 10/25-30 WebNet-World Conference of the WWW, Internet & Intranet Hawaii Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education For more information see http://www.aace.org/ or email AACE@virginia.edu 11/13-19 SC99 Portland, OR Sponsored by ACM SIGARCH and IEEE Computer Society Submission information can be found at http://www.sc99.org/submissions/ For more information see http://www.sc99.org/ or email info@sc99.org or call 888-778-7299 2000 Events of Interest 6/21-23 VECPAR 2000: 4th International Meeting on Vector and Parallel Processing Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Porto, Portugal Abstracts and tutorial proposals due October 29, 1999 Award for best student paper For more information see http://www.fe.up.pt/vecpar2000/ or call 351-2- 2043570 or send email to vecpar2000@fe.up.pt Updated March 3, 1999