CALL FOR MINISYMPOSIA
Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing
PASC25
FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch
Switzerland
16-18 Jun 2025
https://pasc25.pasc-conference.org
Deadline: 25 October 2024 (no extensions)
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The PASC Conference series is an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of knowledge in scientific computing and computational science with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, workflows, application challenges, and novel techniques in the context of scientific usage of high performance computing.
The Conference is co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). The event will be hosted at FHNW (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland) Campus Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland.
The technical program of PASC25 is organized around the following scientific domains:
* Chemistry and Materials (incl. ceramics, metals, and polymers)
* Climate, Weather, and Earth Sciences (incl. solid earth dynamics)
* Applied Social Sciences and Humanities (incl. behavioral, economic, legal, political and business sciences, philosophy, languages, the arts, ethics in computing including climate impact of HPC, biases in machine learning, etc.)
* Engineering (incl. CFD, computational mechanics, computational engineering and materials, turbulent flows, acoustics, signal processing, etc)
* Life Sciences (incl. biophysics, genomics, bioinformatics, systems biology, neuroscience, and computational biology)
* Physics (incl. astrophysics, cosmology, plasma modelling, and quantum information sciences)
* Computational Methods and Applied Mathematics
Proposals that emphasize the theme of PASC25 - "Supercomputing for Sustainable Development" - are particularly welcome.
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, applied to any of the seven domains, and is an ideal platform for promoting interdisciplinary communication.
The minisymposium submission for PASC25 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).
* One of the four speakers must be an early career researcher. A speaker is considered early-career if they have less than 7 years of full-time experience in the field since their last degree (the 7-year window may be extended for extenuating circumstances such as parental or medical leave).
* Presenters must come from different institutions (two speakers from the same institution presenting in the same session will not be accepted).
The expressions of interest will be reviewed by the Minisymposia and Posters Program Committee. A selection of expressions of interest will be invited to submit a full proposal.
The review process will consider the relevance, impact, and pertinence of the proposed topic(s) and also evaluate the proposed list of speakers for balance in terms of gender, career level, and the geographic spread of the represented institutions. Additionally, the interdisciplinary nature of the submission and overall balance of the program in terms of coverage of themes and domains will be considered.
The second stage, namely the full proposal, requires an extended abstract and names of possible speakers and presentation titles for the four 30-minute presentation slots (typically, these slots are 25-minute talks with 5 minutes for Q&A). The minisymposium organizer is permitted to deliver one of the four presentations. If desired, the fourth 30-minute slot could also be a panel discussion or open discussion forum. Presenters of the first three minisyposium slots can also participate in the minisymposium closing discussion without violating the one-talk-per-presenter's regulation.
The organizer of a minisymposium takes an "active chair" role in the session – that is, the organizer 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 (preferably) additional domains.
* Organizer details: Names and contact details of organizers (up to three).
* Abstract: Description of the minisymposium (up to 500 words), including suggestions for topics and speakers.
* Diversity and Inclusivity: A statement on how you have addressed issues of diversity and inclusivity. The suggestions for possible speakers must include at least one early career researcher and consider diversity: geographic spread of the represented institutions (two speakers from the same institution will not be accepted) and multiple countries; diversity in terms of gender and other underrepresented groups; diversity in terms of career stage and expertise; diversity in terms of academia vs industry; and so on.
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: Names and contact details of organizers (up to three).
* Presenter details: 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).
* Diversity and Inclusivity: A statement on how you have addressed issues of diversity and inclusivity. The suggestions for possible speakers must include at least one early career researcher and consider diversity: geographic spread of the represented institutions (two speakers from the same institution will not be accepted) and multiple countries; diversity in terms of gender and other underrepresented groups; diversity in terms of career stage and expertise; diversity in terms of academia vs industry; and so on.
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.
Domain experts from the Minisymposia and Posters Program Committee will assess the expressions of interest and full proposals 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 be designed such that the speakers bring a range of different perspectives and views to the topic
* The suggestions for possible speakers must include at least one early career researcher and consider diversity: geographic spread of the represented institutions (two speakers from the same institution will not be accepted) and multiple countries; diversity in terms of gender and other underrepresented groups; diversity in terms of career stage and expertise; diversity in terms of academia vs industry; and so on.
Proposals must be submitted through the PASC25 online submission portal.
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
* 25 October 2024: Deadline for expressions of interest (NO EXTENSIONS!)
* 29 November 2024: Decision notifications (invitations to submit full proposals)
* 05 January 2025: Deadline for full submissions (NO EXTENSIONS!)
* 06 February 2025: Acceptance notifications
* 07 March 2025: Deadline for abstracts from presenting speakers
Deadlines correspond to anywhere on earth ('AoE' or 'UTC-12').
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION TERMS
Conference contributors whose submissions are accepted for presentation at the conference are expected to present their work on-site.
Please note that PASC25 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.
MINISYMPOSIA AND POSTERS PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chairs
* Laura Grigori (PSI/EPFL, Switzerland)
* Peter Vincent (Imperial College London, UK)
Scientific Committee
* George Biros (The University of Texas at Austin, US)
* Alfonso Bueno-Orovio (University of Oxford, UK)
* Chris Cantwell (Imperial College London, UK)
* Manuel Guizar Sicairos (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
* Iva Kavcic (Met Office UK)
* David Keyes (King Abdullah University of Science)
* Sarah Knepper (Intel Corporation, US)
* Andreas Läuchli (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
* Yan Liu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
* Nicola Marzari (EPFL, Switzerland)
* Verónica G. Melesse Vergara (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
* Mario Morales (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
* David Moxey (King's College London, UK)
* Matej Praprotnik (National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia)
* Elaine Raybourn (Sandia National Laboratories, US)
* Katherine Royston (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
* Sinéad Ryan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
* Jibonananda Sanyal (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US)
* Simon Scheidegger (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
* Tobias Weigel (DKRZ, Germany)
* Freddie Witherden (Texas A&M University, US)
* Julija Zavadlav (TU Munich, Germany)
Questions regarding the submission and reviewing process can be addressed to info@pasc-conference.org.
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