PASC21: Call for Papers (Dec 12th)

[Axel Huebl]

Dear colleagues,

Please see the invitation to submit to the physics domain track of next year's PASC conference attached. The submission deadline is Dec 12th, papers will result in a peer-reviewed publication (two-stage and double-blind) and are an ideal place to publish your cross-domain research in HPC, numerics, data science, AI/ML and physics.

Please forward the call to your colleagues as you see fit. (I apologise for potentially targeting some of you doubly.)

All the best,

Axel

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                                CALL FOR PAPERS
                  Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing
                                    PASC22

                            Congress Center Basel
                             Basel - Switzerland
                               27-29 Jun 2022

                      https://pasc22.pasc-conference.org

                    Deadline: 12 Dec 2021 (no extensions)

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The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) invites research paper 
submissions for PASC22, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery 
(ACM) and SIGHPC, which will be held at the Congress Center Basel, Switzerland, 
from June 27 to 29, 2022. The guidelines for submissions are published at 
https://pasc22.pasc-conference.org/submission/guidelines-for-papers/.

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, application challenges, and 
novel techniques and usage of high performance computing.

As in previous years, the technical program of PASC22 is organized around eight 
scientific domains:

* Chemistry and Materials
* Life Sciences (incl. but not limited to biophysics, genomics, bioinformatics, 
systems biology, neuroscience and computational biology, ...)
* Physics (incl. but not limited to astrophysics, cosmology, plasma modelling, 
QCD, ...)
* Climate and Weather
* Solid Earth Dynamics
* Engineering (incl. but not limited to CFD, computational mechanics, 
computational engineering materials, turbulent flow, ...)
* Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
* Emerging Application Domains (incl. but not limited to social sciences, 
finance, and interdisciplinary topics such as insight gained from combining 
models and data across various fields)

PASC22 solicits high-quality contributions of original research related to 
scientific computing in all of these domains. Papers that address aspects 
emphasizing the Challenge of PASC22 - "Computing and Data... for all Humankind" 
- and the affiliated topics "Computing for Planet Earth", "Data Science and 
Inequality", and "Epidemiology and Public Health" are particularly welcome.  

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Extreme scalable methods in computational science and engineering, such as 
algorithms and software for scalable multi-scale, multi-physics, and 
high-fidelity computational science and engineering problems.
* Numerical methods, algorithms, or large-scale simulations in computational 
fluid dynamics, computational mechanics, computational engineering materials, 
turbulent flow, and computational cosmology.
* Effective use of advanced computing systems for large-scale scientific 
applications, including modern multi- and many-core CPUs and accelerators with 
deep memory hierarchies, and energy-efficient architectures.
* Best practices and tools for productive and sustainable scientific and 
engineering software development.
* The integration of large-scale experimental and observational scientific data 
and high-performance data analytics and computing.
* Reproducibility for computational science and engineering.
* Verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification.
* Domain specific languages; toolchains for source-to-source 
translation/adaption.
* Runtime systems and middleware, such as task- and data-driven computation on 
heterogeneous architectures.
* Algorithms and strategies for effective use of machine learning, deep 
learning or AI to accelerate computational science.
* Unstructured vs structured meshes for computational science applications at 
exascale
* Numerical algorithm development for exascale computing, including, but not 
limited to, communication avoiding algorithms, use of reduced or mixed 
precision, and integration of scalable numerical libraries in application 
software.
* Computational approaches for social sciences such as finance, urban planning, 
mobility or disaster response.

Papers accepted for PASC22 will be presented as talks, and published in the 
Proceedings of the PASC Conference, accessible via the ACM Digital Library. A 
selection of the highest quality papers may be given the opportunity of a 
plenary presentation. In selecting papers for plenary presentation, the Papers 
Committee will place particular weight on impact, interdisciplinarity and 
interest to a broad audience. 

The goal of the PASC Conference Papers Program is to advance the quality of 
scientific communication between the various disciplines of computational 
science and engineering in the context of high performance computing. The 
program was built from an observation that the computer science community 
traditionally publishes in the proceedings of major international conferences, 
while domain science communities publish primarily in disciplinary journals – 
and neither of which is read regularly by the other. The PASC Conference 
provides a unique venue that enables interdisciplinary exchange in a manner 
that bridges the two scientific publishing cultures.

The Proceedings of the PASC Conference (PASC22) are published in the 
Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM's) Digital Library. In recognition 
of the high quality of the PASC Conference papers track, the ACM continues to 
provide the proceedings as an Open Table of Contents (OpenTOC). This means that 
the definitive versions of PASC Conference papers are available to everyone at 
no charge to the author and without any pay-wall constraints for readers.

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW 

The PASC22 Papers Program Committee 
(https://pasc22.pasc-conference.org/about/papers-program-committee/) is 
responsible for the paper evaluation process. The committee is chaired by Kate 
Evans (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Damian Rouson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and is comprised of Domain Chairs who are specialists in their scientific 
fields. Papers will be evaluated on their significance, technical soundness, 
originality, and quality of communication. 

We employ a rigorous academic peer-review process: most notably, we allow the 
possibility for provisional acceptance (revision and author rebuttal), and 
specialized reviewers are solicited for each submission (there is no 
pre-selected standing committee of reviewers). The paper selection process thus 
combines the strengths of conference and journal publication schemes to provide 
an effective, high-impact publication venue in large-scale computational 
science.

Contributions must be submitted through the PASC Conference online submission 
portal (https://submissions.pasc-conference.org). Submissions should include 
the following:

* Title: Maximum 20 words.
* Scientific Domain: Select a primary and optionally secondary scientific 
domain(s).
* Author details: Full names and contact details of author(s).
* Short Abstract: Maximum 200 words.
* Paper: Maximum 10 pages including figures, tables, and appendices. 

As submissions are evaluated double blind, authors should not be named in the 
paper itself (nor should their affiliations or funding bodies), and references 
to previous own work should be made in the third person. Papers must be 
submitted in the current ACM Article Template (sigconf proceedings) format [1].

SUBMISSION DEADLINES

The deadline for submissions for PASC22 is December 12, 2021 at 11:59 pm 
anywhere on earth ('AoE' or 'UTC-12').

* 12 Dec 2021: Deadline for paper submissions (no extensions!)
* 08 Feb 2022: Review notifications
* 06 Mar 2022: Deadline for paper revisions
* 06 Apr 2022: Acceptance notifications

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION TERMS

Authors of papers that are accepted for PASC22 will be given 20-30 minute 
presentation slots at the conference, grouped in topically-focused parallel 
sessions. A selection of the highest quality papers may be given the 
opportunity of a plenary presentation. Papers that are presented at PASC22 will 
be published in the Proceedings of the PASC Conference, accessible via the ACM 
Digital Library. Please note that speakers must register for the conference and 
are subject to the corresponding registration fee. In-person participation is 
preferred and encouraged whenever possible. However, paper authors can present 
their work digitally, if they are unable/feel uncomfortable in attending 
in-person. Further details on the conference format can be found at 
https://pasc22.pasc-conference.org/about/conference-format/.

POST-CONFERENCE JOURNAL SUBMISSION

Following the conference, authors will have the opportunity to develop their 
papers, and, where appropriate, associated open-source software, for 
publication in a relevant, computationally focused, domain-specific journal. 
The journal paper should be an expanded version of the conference paper 
(consistent with the ACM policy for major revisions [2]) presenting a more 
complete description of the work – a fuller introduction, deeper project 
description, additional results, etc. and may be accompanied by associated 
open-source software.

To facilitate post-conference journal publications, the PASC Conference has 
formed collaborative partnerships with a number of high-quality scientific 
journals, including Computer Physics Communications (CPC) [3], the Journal of 
Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES) [4], and ACM Transactions on 
Mathematical Software (ACM TOMS) [5]. Members of the journals' editorial boards 
will work with the Scientific Committee in reviewing PASC papers and in 
identifying papers to be extended and submitted to partner journals. Authors 
should communicate their interest in publishing with a partner journal during 
the submission process.

PAPERS PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS    

General Chairs
* Kate Evans (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US) 
* Damian Rouson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Sourcery Institute, US) 

Domain Chairs            
* Stephan Irle (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
* Bryan Wong (University of California, Riverside, US)
* Willem Deconinck (ECMWF, UK)   
* Oksana Guba (Sandia National Laboratories, US) 
* Olga Pearce (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US)
* Sameer Shende (University of Oregon, US)
* WenWen Li (Arizona State University, US)
* Yan Liu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
* Alvaro Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
* Rosa Badia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
* Anotida Madzvamuse (University of Sussex, UK)
* Suzanne Lenhart (University of Tennessee, US)
* Axel Huebl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US)
* Meifeng Lin (Brookhaven National Laboratory, US) 


If you have any questions regarding the submission or reviewing process please 
email in...@pasc-conference.org. 

Notes:

[1]: www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html; see 
section "LaTex Authors" for the link to download the template
[2]: To distinguish between a new derivative work and a minor revision, ACM 
uses, respectively, a rule of greater than or less than 25 percent changed
[3]: www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-physics-communications
[4]: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1942-2466/
[5]: toms.acm.org

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Axel Huebl

Computational Physicist, Research Software Engineer

Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley, CA

Pronouns: he/him/his