* SC19 Panels Program - Call for Submissions *

SC19: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
November 17-22, 2019, Denver, Colorado, USA

SC19 Panels will be held Tuesday–Friday, November 19–22, 2019.

Panels create an opportunity for the community to engage in discussion on current HPC challenges and solutions. The goal of the Panels program is to gather diverse practitioners in sharing insightful perspectives, engaging the broader community in dialogue, and making concrete progress toward a specific collaborative goal.

We invite you to make a submission and to offer your encouragement and assistance to others in making submissions. Please start your submissions early and refine them until submissions close.

* Review Criteria *
Panels are peer-reviewed by a committee of experts. Each panel proposal will have at least three reviewers. Panel reviews are single-blind. Panels are evaluated on the following criteria:

- Relevance and timeliness of the topic: Is this an issue that needs to be resolved now?

- Expectation of driving toward insight: Will the panel make a meaningful contribution to the state of the art and for the good of the supercomputing community?

- Diversity of panelists: Diversity may be broadly construed to include topical, institutional, geographic, and demographic characteristics (e.g., seniority, gender). How is your panel representative of the current, or of an ideal, HPC community?

- Audience draw: Expectation of creating excitement and drawing an audience, as evidenced by relevance and participation in similar events (e.g., panels, workshops, conferences) at related venues.

- Approach: Effectiveness of prescribed approach in sharing and drawing out insights, including highlighting diverse perspectives (a little friendly controversy is often beneficial for discussion) and fostering and garnering audience participation. The submission should include a proposed agenda for the panel session.

- Clarity: The proposal should be clear, complete, and articulate.

* Important Dates *
Submissions Open: February 15, 2019
Submission Close: April 23, 2019
Notifications Sent: June 15, 2019

* Web Submissions *
https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/panel-submissions/

* Email Contact *
panels@info.supercomputing.org

* SC19 Panels Chair *
Sandy Landsberg, U.S. Department of Defense, USA

* SC19 Panels Vice Chair *
Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

* SC19 Panels Committee *
Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Aydin Buluc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; University of California, Berkeley, USA
Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, University of California, Irvine, USA
Susan Gregurick, National Institutes of Health, USA
Mary Hall, University of Utah, USA
Jeff R. Hammond, Intel Corporation, USA
Kirk E. Jordan, IBM, USA
Kerstin Kleese van Dam, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Tsengdar Lee, NASA, USA
Yu David Liu, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
Chris J. Newburn, Nvidia Corporation, USA
Rangan Sukumar, Cray Inc., USA
Jesper Larsson Träff, TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), Vienna
Didem Unat, Koc University, Turkey
Osman Unsal, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University, China