PPAM 2011
9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
PARALLEL PROCESSING AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Torun, Poland,
September 11-14, 2011
http://ppam.pl

The PPAM 2011 conference, ninth in a series, will cover topics in parallel
and distributed processing, including theory and applications, as well as
applied mathematics. The focus will be on models, algorithms, and software
tools which facilitate efficient and convenient utilization of modern
parallel and distributed computing architectures, as well as on large-scale
applications, and cloud computing.

PPAM is a biennial conference started in 1994, with the proceedings published
by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences series. Next year the
conference will take place in Torun, the beautiful old city on the Vistula
river, located in northern Poland, where the great astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus was born.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited) to:
- Parallel/distributed architectures, enabling technologies
- Cloud computing
- Multi-core and many-core parallel computing
- GPU computing
- Impact of FPGAs on HPC
- Cluster computing
- Parallel/distributed algorithms: numerical and non-numerical
- Scheduling, mapping, load balancing
- Performance analysis and prediction
- Performance issues on various types of parallel systems
- Autotuning: methods, tools, and applications
- Parallel/distributed programming
- Tools and environments for parallel/distributed computing
- Security and dependability in parallel/distributed environments
- HPC numerical linear algebra
- HPC methods of solving differential equations
- Evolutionary computing, meta-heuristics and neural networks
- Interval analysis
- Applied Computing in mechanics, material processing, biology and
medicine, physics, chemistry, business, environmental modeling, etc.
- Applications for parallel/distributed computing
- Methods and tools for parallel solution of large-scale problems

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (tentative list)

David A. Bader Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Ewa Deelman University of Southern California, USA
Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee and ORNL, USA
Fred Gustavson IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Bo Kagstrom Umea University, Sweden
Robert Strzodka Max Planck Institut fur Informatik, Germany
Boleslaw K. Szymanski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Denis Trystram Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Richard W. Vuduc Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jerzy Wasniewski Technical University of Denmark


WORKSHOPS, MINISYMPOSIA, SPECIAL SESSIONS (preliminary list)

- Minisymposium on GPU Computing
- Memory and Data Parallelism on Multi- and Manycore Platforms
- Workshop on Models, Algorithms and Methodologies for Hierarchical
Parallelism in New HPC Systems
- Workshop on Scalable Computing in Distributed Systems/Workshop
on Large Scale Computations on Grids
- Workshop on Novel Data Formats and Algorithms for High
Performance Computing
- Workshop on Scheduling for Parallel Computing
- Workshop on Language-Based Parallel Programming Models
- Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Parallel Applications
on Large-Scale Systems
- Workshop on Parallel Computational Biology
- Minisymposium on Applications of Parallel Computation in Industry
and Engineering
- Minisymposium on Interval Analysis
- Workshop on Complex Collective Systems

The conference organizers will consider further proposals, if submitted
by February 1, 2011.

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Original papers are invited for the conference. Authors should submit full
papers (draft version, PDF file, together with abstract) using the online
submission system before April 30, 2011. Regular papers are not to exceed
10 pages (LNCS style). Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis
of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference topics.
Abstracts of accepted papers will be available during the conference in
form of a brochure. Only papers presented at PPAM 2011 will be included
into the proceedings, which is planned to be published after the conference
by Springer in the LNCS series. Full camera-ready versions of
accepted papers will be required by October 31, 2011.

CONFERENCE OFFICE

PPAM 2011
Institute of Computer & Information Sciences
Czestochowa University of Technology
Dabrowskiego 73, 42-201 Czestochowa, Poland
Phone: +48 668 476 840
Fax: +48 34 3250 589
e-mail: roman@icis.pcz.pl
http://ppam.pl

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Papers: April 30, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2011
Camera-Ready Papers: Oct. 31, 2011

Roman Wyrzykowski Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
CHAIR OF PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Boleslaw Szymanski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
VICE-CHAIR OF PROGRAM COMMITTEE