Summer School on Parallel Computers, Padova June 96 (LaTeX)

[Andrea Pietracaprina]

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{\large\bf Call for Participation\hspace*{\fill}Please Post}
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{\Large\bf Esprit Project GEPPCOM}\\
{\Large\bf Foundations of GEneral Purpose Parallel COMputing}\\[.6cm]
{\huge\bf Summer School on Architectures and}\\[.2cm]
{\huge\bf Programming Paradigms for Parallel Computers}\\[.4cm]
{\Large\bf Padova, Italy, June 17-21, 1996}\\[.6cm]
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{\large\bf Topics and Lecturers} \hspace{.1in}
Advanced material will be presented on the following subjects.
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\item{{\it Shared Memory Architectures: Foundations.}
{\bf K. Herley (Cork U.), A. Pietracaprina (U. Padova), G. Pucci (U. Padova)}}

\item{{\it Shared Memory Architectures: Realizations.}
{\bf R. Bisiani (U. Milano), M. Maresca (U. Padova),
W. Paul (U. Saarbrucken), W. Tichy (U. Karlsruhe)}}

\item{{\it Universal Routing and Architectures.}
{\bf G. Bilardi (U. Padova \& UIC), C. Kaklamanis (CTI, Patras),
B. Maggs (CMU), G. Resta (IMC-CNR, Pisa), P. Spirakis (CTI, Patras)}}

\item{{\it Message Passing.} {\bf C. Guerra (U. Padova \& Purdue U.)}}

\item{{\it Bulk Synchronous Parallel Computing.} {\bf Q. Miller (Oxford U.)}}

\item{{\it The Cilk Multithreaded Programming System.} {\bf M. Frigo (MIT),
C. Leiserson (MIT)}}

\item{{\it Data Parallelism.} {\bf G. Blelloch (CMU)}}

\item{{\it The Application Perspective.}
{\bf R. Bru (U. Valencia), B. Codenotti (IMC-CNR, Pisa)}}
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{\large\bf Participation} \hspace{.1in}
The school is targeted to graduate students and young researchers.
There are no fees. Scholarships will be awarded to outstanding
participants, covering part or all of local expenses (meals and lodging).
To apply for participation, send a short resume and a cover letter.
To be considered for a scholarship, arrange for two letters of
recommendation to be sent directly, and indicate this in your cover
letter. Address all material to:

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Gianfranco Bilardi, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica, Via
Gradenigo 6/A, 35131 Padova, Italy\\ Phone +39/49/827-7819. Fax
+39/49/827-7699. \E {\tt bil...@artemide.dei.unipd.it}\\
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Applications should be received by May 20, 1996. Notification of a decision
will be sent by May 25.\\
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{\large\bf Logistics} \hspace{.1in}
The school will be held at the ``Centro Innovazione'' in Padova
(20 miles west of Venice).
Full board is estimated to cost Lit. 100,000
($\approx$ USD 65) per day, based on double occupancy.\\
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{\large\bf Sponsorhip} \hspace{.1in}
The school is funded by the {\bf European Commission},
through ESPRIT Basic Research Project 9072-GEPPCOM, a joint effort of
Computer Technology Institute (Patras, Greece),
Consorzio Padova Ricerche (Padova, Italy),
Istituto di Matematica Computazionale del CNR (Pisa, Italy),
Oxford University (Oxford, England), University College Cork (Cork, Ireland),
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Valencia, Spain).\\
~~~~~Additional generous support has been provided by:\\[0.2cm]
-- {\bf Camera di Commercio, Industria, Artigianato e Agricoltura di Padova}\\
-- {\bf International Bussiness Machine Corporation}\\
-- {\bf Servizi Elettrocontabili Banche Popolari Padova}\\
-- {\bf Universit\`a di Padova}\\
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{\large\bf Organizing Committee}: G. Bilardi, A. Capitanio, A. Pietracaprina,
M. Pines, and G. Pucci.\\
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{\large\bf SPAA'96}: The 8th ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and
Architectures will be held in Padova, June~24-26.
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