<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 16.1px;font-size:24px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Women in HPC at ISC 2016: Call for posters and participation</b></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 14.9px;font-size:18px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>In collaboration with ISC High Performance 2016</b></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 15.9px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(4,46,238);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://www.womeninhpc.org/women-in-hpc-at-isc-2016" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><b>http://www.womeninhpc.org/women-in-hpc-at-isc-2016/</b></a></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 12px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Women in HPC will attend ISC for a second year in June 2016.<br>Once again we will bring together women from across the international HPC community, providing opportunities to network, showcasing the work of inspiring women and discussing how we can all work towards to improving the under-representation of women in supercomputing.</p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 14.9px;font-size:18px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Workshop</b></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 12px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span class="" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="" style="">Thursday 23 June 2016</span></span><span class=""> </span>(Time to be confirmed)</b></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 12px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The fourth international Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop, held at ISC 2016, Frankfurt, Germany will once again bring together the HPC community to discuss the growing importance of increasing diversity in the workplace. This workshop aims to recognize and discuss the challenges faced by women, one of many underrepresented groups that exist in HPC, as well as opportunities for broadening participation in HPC fields and activities to encourage women to enter the field with consideration of differing legislation affecting hiring and employment practices among the different countries. </p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 14px;font-size:14px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Call for posters: Now Open!</b></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Deadline for submissions<span class=""> </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="" style="">9 May 2016</span></span><span class=""> </span>AOE</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">As part of the workshop we will be inviting submissions from female early career researchers to present their work as a poster in a supportive environment that promotes the engagement of women in HPC research and applications, providing opportunities for peer to peer networking and the opportunity to interact with female role models.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">To submit your work please email your abstract as a word or text document containing the following information to <a href="mailto:info@womeninhpc.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">info@womeninhpc.org</a> by<span class=""> </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="" style="">9 May 2016</span></span>:</div><ul style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li style="margin:0px;font-family:Times">Full name of main (presenting) author, short biography (150 words) and photograph for website publicity</li><li style="margin:0px;font-family:Times">Names of any other authors;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-family:Times">Current institution of all authors;</li><li style="margin:0px;font-family:Times">Abstract (up to 250 words)</li></ul><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(71,135,255);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">For full details please see: <a href="http://www.womeninhpc.org/women-in-hpc-at-isc-2016/workshop/submit" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.womeninhpc.org/women-in-hpc-at-isc-2016/workshop/submit</a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Times;min-height:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 14px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:14px"><b>Panel discussion and breakout sessions<br></b></span>We will host a panel discussion and breakout sessions inviting questions and suggestions from the audience on how employers can help diversify the HPC workforce, the obstacles employers face, and sharing best practise across the international community from a variety of HPC employers.</p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 12px;font-size:14px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Sign up and take part!</b></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 12px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We would like to encourage everyone who has an interest in the equal representation of women to attend, irrespective of their gender.</p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 12px;font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Registration is via <a href="https://www.isc-events.com/ir/registration.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(4,46,238)">ISC-HPC</span></a> the website. For the workshop please register to attend the<span class=""> </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="" style="">Thursday</span></span> workshop session, which can be done either with as add-on to the conference program (<span class="" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="" style="">Monday </span></span>to <span class="" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="" style="">Wednesday</span></span>), or as a separate workshop-only pass.</p></div></div>