[Storage-research-list] Call for Nominations -- IEEE CS TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing -- Deadline 08/15/16

[Manish Parashar]

IEEE CS TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing – 2016


The IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance 
Computing, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing 
(TCHPC) and its member Technical Committees, Technical Committee on Parallel Process (TCPP) and Technical 
Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC), recognizes up to 3 individuals who have made outstanding, 
influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field
of scalable computing within 5 years of receiving 
their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award. 


Nominations: A candidate must be nominated by member(s) of the community. An individual may nominate at 
most one candidate for this award. The nomination must be submitted via email to tchpc-awards at rid2.rutgers.edu. 
A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details:

	1. Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are 
not eligible)
	2. Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended
	3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the
nominee is highly deserving of the award. 
	    Note that since the award
is for outstanding contributions, the statement and supporting letters should address 
	    what the
contributions are and why they are both outstanding and significant. The nomination should also list 
	    the names and email of up to 3 persons who have provided letters supporting the nomination.
	4. CV of the nominee
	5. Up to three letters of support from persons other than
the nominator – these should be collected by the nominator 
	    and included in the nomination.


Important Dates:
	- Nomination Deadline:      August 15, 2016
	- Results Notification:         September 15, 2016


Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee consists of:
	David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia
	Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA
	Karen Devine, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
	Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
	Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
	Sartaj Sahni, Univ. of Florida, USA
	Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Note that members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or provide support letters.


Award & Presentation Note:  Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE Computer Society TCPP 
and TCCC websites, newsletters and archives. The awards will be presented at the SC16 conference that will be held in 
Salt Lake City, UT, USA during November 13 – 18, 2016. 

Details of the conference can be found at http://sc16.supercomputing.org/.

For more information, please send email to tchpc-awards at rdi2.rutgers.edu.

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