Dear everyone:
We are organizing a minisymposterium (thematic poster group) on
Software Productivity and Sustainability for CSE and Data Science
(see abstract below) for the SIAM Conference on Computational (CSE19), which
will be held during Feb 25-March 1, 2019 in Spokane, Washington, see:
https://www.siam.org/conferences/CM/Main/cse19
We invite you and others who are working on issues in software productivity and
sustainability to consider submitting a poster to CSE19 as part of this
minisymposterium. Feel free to forward this information to others who may be
interested.
Please let me know by Tuesday, August 14 if you are interested in submitting a
poster as part of this session. If so, respond by email to me
([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) with a draft title of your
poster and a sentence or two about your area of work. I will then follow up
with instructions for you to submit a poster abstract (1,500 characters
maximum) to the CSE19 conference system (and also to us by email); our goal is
to collect all abstracts by Tuesday, August 21. Unfortunately, SIAM does not
provide travel support for poster presenters. If you are also submitting a talk
in a minisymposium or contributed session, note that CSE19 conference
guidelines allow an individual to present a poster in addition to a talk,
provided that the talk and poster are on different results.
All posters in the thematic poster group will be co-located in the poster
viewing area, which will provide a rich environment for informal exchange of
ideas on software productivity and sustainability issues. At CSE17, we had a
similar minisymposterium including 28 posters, which we subsequently collected
and archived on FigShare (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3703771).
If you are working on issues in software productivity and sustainability for
CSE and data science, please consider submitting a poster to CSE19 as part of
this minisymposterium. I’d be glad to address any questions you may have.
Best,
Lois (on behalf of the organizers listed below)
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Minisymposterium submission to SIAM CSE19:
Software Productivity and Sustainability for CSE and Data Science
Organizers:
David E. Bernholdt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Michael A. Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories)
Catherine Jones (Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK)
Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Lois Curfman McInnes (Argonne National Laboratory)
Abstract:
Software is the key crosscutting technology that enables advances in
mathematics, computer science, and domain-specific science and engineering to
achieve robust simulations and analysis for predictive science, engineering,
and other research fields. While software is becoming more complex due to
multiphysics and multiscale modeling, the coupling of data analytics, and
disruptive changes in computer hardware (due to increases in typical system
scale and heterogeneity, including GPUs and additional alternative
architectures), software itself has not traditionally received focused
attention in the CSE community or been rewarded by that community. The
presenters in this minisymposterium will address work that addresses growing
technical and social challenges in software productivity, quality, and
sustainability, and thereby helps software fulfill its critical role as a
cornerstone of long-term CSE collaboration. Having a minisymposterium for these
topics provides a natural gathering point during poster sessions for informal
conversation.
