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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><span class="gmail-im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><div style="text-align: center;" class="">==============================<wbr class="">==============================<wbr class="">=====</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">7th International Women in HPC workshop</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday November 12th 2017</span></span> — Denver, CO, USA</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div></span><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Call for posters and participation - deadline for posters extended: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">27th August 2017</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><a href="https://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc17/workshop/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.womeninhpc.org/<wbr class="">whpc-sc17/workshop/</a></div><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">==============================<wbr class="">==============================<wbr class="">=====</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="gmail-im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Call for posters: Deadline extended</b></div><b class="">Deadline for submissions: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">August 27th 2017</span></span> AOE<span class="gmail-"><br class=""><br class=""></span></b>Women in HPC will once again attend the Supercomputing conference to discuss diversity and inclusivity topics. Activities will bring together women from across the international HPC community, provide opportunities to network, showcase the work of inspiring women, and discuss how we can all work towards improving the under-representation of women in supercomputing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The 7th International Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop at SC17 in Denver brings together the HPC community to discuss the growing importance of increasing diversity in the workplace. This workshop will recognize and discuss the challenges of improving the proportion of women in the HPC community, and is relevant for employers and employees throughout the supercomputing workforce who are interested in addressing diversity. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sessions include:</div><div class="">- Improving Diversity in the Workplace: What methods have been put in place and tested to improve workplace diversity and inclusion?</div><div class="">- Career Development and Mentoring: Skills to thrive; sharing your experiences and advice on how to succeed in the workplace.</div><div class="">- Virtual Poster Showcase: Highlighting work from women across industry and academia. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><div class=""><b class="">Call for posters: Deadline extended</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Deadline for submissions: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">August 27th 2017</span></span> AOE<br class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><div class="gmail-im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><div class="">As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a virtual poster. This will promote the engagement of women in HPC research and applications, provide opportunities for peer to peer networking, and the opportunity to interact with female role models and employers. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasise the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For full details please see: <a href="http://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc17/workshop/submit/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">http://www.womeninhpc.<wbr class="">org/whpc-sc17/workshop/submit/<wbr class=""> </a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Workshop Committee</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Chairs</b></div><div class="">- Workshop Chair: Toni Collis, EPCC, UK and Women in HPC Network, UK</div><div class="">- Poster Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA</div><div class="">- Mentoring Chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA</div><div class="">- Publicity Chair: Kimberly McMahon, McMahon Consulting, USA</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Steering and Organisation Committee</b></div><div class="">- Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA</div><div class="">- Trish Damkroger, Intel, USA</div><div class="">- Kelly Gaither, TACC, USA</div><div class="">- Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC, USA</div><div class="">- Daniel Holmes, EPCC, UK</div><div class="">- Adrian Jackson, EPCC, UK</div><div class="">- Alison Kennedy, Hartree Centre, STFC, UK</div><div class="">- Lorna Rivera, CEISMC, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Programme Committee (for early career posters)</b></div><div class="">- Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA</div><div class="">- Toni Collis, EPCC, UK and Women in HPC Network, UK</div><div class="">- Elsa Gonsiorowski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA</div><div class="">- Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC, USA</div><div class="">- Daniel Holmes, EPCC, UK</div><div class="">- Adrian Jackson, EPCC, UK</div><div class="">- Alison Kennedy, Hartree Centre, STFC, UK</div><div class="">- Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA</div><div class="">- Lorna Rivera, CEISMC, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA</div><div class="">- Jesmin Jahan Tithi, Parallel Computing Lab, Intel Corporation, USA</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>