ercal@umriscc.isc.umr.edu (Fikret Ercal) (02/12/91)
Announcement and CALL FOR applications and/or abstracts for NATO Advanced Study Institute PARALLEL COMPUTING ON DISTRIBUTED MEMORY MULTIPROCESSORS July 1--12, 1991 Bilkent University, Ankara - TURKEY OBJECTIVE OF THIS INSTITUTE This ASI will be a series of advanced level lectures on recent developments in the areas of parallel algorithms, architectures, data/object decomposition schemes, fault-tolerance, compiler techniques and parallel programming environments for massively parallel computers. Papers may be submitted for a limited number of contributed paper sessions on any of these areas. The program also includes lectures on the latest massively parallel computer projects in Europe and the U.S. There will be poster and panel sessions to provide an intellectually stimulating forum for the students and the lecturers in the area of parallel computing and to emphasize areas of future research. LECTURERS Lecturers of this institute are the scientists and the experts eminent in the field of parallel computing from NATO countries. The lecturers in the final program are: B. Abali, O. Babaoglu, M. Chen, W. J. Dally, E. Gelenbe, A. Hey, C. T. Ho, F. Mattern, A. Mazzeo, D. Paddon, T. Priol, P. Sadayappan, S. Sahni, D. Scott, K. Shin, Q. Stout, and O. Torbjoernsen ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FUSUN OZGUNER The Ohio State Univ., Elect. Eng. Dept. Columbus, OH 43201 USA e-mail : ozguner@bambi.eng.ohio-state.edu FIKRET ERCAL Univ. of Missouri-Rolla, Comp. Sci. Dept. Rolla, MO 65401 USA e-mail : ercal@cs.umr.edu OZALP BABAOGLU Univ. di Bologna, Dept. of Mathematics 40127 Bologna ITALY e-mail : ozalp@dm.unibo.it CEVDET AYKANAT Bilkent University, Comp. Sci. Dept. Bilkent, Ankara TURKEY e-mail : aykanat@trbilun.bitnet APPLICATIONS School is open to a limited number of advanced graduate students and fresh Ph.D.'s. Living expenses of participants are covered by NATO. A limited number of travel grants are also available for some participants from NATO countries. To be considered for a financial grant, applicants must send a resume along with a letter of recommendation from the head of the department or from the dissertation advisor by NO LATER THAN MARCH 30, 1991 The award notifications will be mailed by May 15, 1991. Send your applications or abstracts through regular or electronic mail to one of the organizers depending on the geographic proximity.