<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear WSSSPE community members,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;" class=""> </span></div></div><p class="p1" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1">We are organizing a minisymposterium (thematic poster group) submission on</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1"><b class="">Software Productivity and Sustainability for CSE and Data Science</b></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1">(see abstract below) to the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19), which will be held during Feb 25 - March 1, 2019 in Spokane, WA see</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1"> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.siam.org/conferences/CM/Main/cse19" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">https://www.siam.org/conferences/CM/Main/cse19</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1">We welcome poster presentation submissions as part of this thematic poster group.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1"><b class="">Please let us know by Tuesday, August 7 if you are interested in submitting a poster as part of this session.</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1">If so, respond to us by email with a draft title of your poster and a sentence or two about your area of work.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1">We will then follow up with instructions for you to submit a poster abstract (1,500 characters maximum) to the CSE19 conference system (and also to us by email); our goal is to collect all abstracts by Tuesday, August 14.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1">Unfortunately, SIAM does not provide travel support for poster presenters. If you are also submitting a talk in a minisymposium or contributed session, note that CSE19 conference guidelines allow an individual to present a poster in addition to a talk, provided that the talk and poster are on different results.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1">All posters in the thematic poster group will be co-located in the poster viewing area, which will provide a rich environment for informal exchange of ideas on software productivity and sustainability issues.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1">At CSE17, we had a similar minisymposterium including 28 posters, which we subsequently collected and archived on FigShare (<a href="https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3703771" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3703771</a>).</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1">If you are working on issues in software productivity and sustainability for CSE and data science, please consider submitting a poster to CSE19 as part of this minisymposterium.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1">We would be glad to address any questions you may have.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1">Dan (on behalf of the organizers listed below)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1">----------</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1"><b class="">Minisymposterium submission to SIAM CSE19:</b></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1"><b class="">Software Productivity and Sustainability for CSE and Data Science</b></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1"><b class="">Organizers:</b></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1">David E. Bernholdt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1">Michael A. Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1">Catherine Jones (Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1">Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1">Lois Curfman McInnes (Argonne National Laboratory)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1"><b class="">Abstract:</b></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span class="s1">Software is the key crosscutting technology that enables advances in mathematics, computer science, and domain-specific science and engineering to achieve robust simulations and analysis for predictive science, engineering, and other research fields.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1">While software is becoming more complex due to multiphysics and multiscale modeling, the coupling of data analytics, and disruptive changes in computer hardware (due to increases in typical system scale and heterogeneity, including GPUs and additional alternative architectures), software itself has not traditionally received focused attention in the CSE community or been rewarded by that community.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1">The presenters in this minisymposterium will address work that addresses growing technical and social challenges in software productivity, quality, and sustainability, and thereby helps software fulfill its critical role as a cornerstone of long-term CSE collaboration. Having a minisymposterium for these topics provides a natural gathering point during poster sessions for informal conversation.</span></div><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="" style="font-size: 9px;"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">-- </span></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Daniel S. Katz</font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Assistant Director for Scientific Software and Applications, NCSA</font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Research Associate Professor, CS</font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Research Associate Professor, ECE</font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Research Associate Professor</font><span class="" style="font-family: Courier;">, iSchool</span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">University of Illinois</font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier" class="">(217) 244-8000</font></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><a href="mailto:d.katz@ieee.org" class="" target="_blank" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">d.katz@ieee.org</a><span class="" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> or </span><font face="Courier" class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="mailto:dskatz@illinois.edu" class="">dskatz@illinois.edu</a></font></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><a href="http://danielskatz.org/" class="" style="font-family: Courier;">http://danielskatz.org</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 9px;"><br class=""></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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