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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 15px;" class="">Call for Submissions</span></h1>
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<div style="text-align: left;" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 15px;" class="">Research Software Engineers in HPC:
</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 15px;" class="">Creating Community, Building Careers, Addressing Challenges</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" class="">(RSE-HPC-2020)</div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 15px;" class=""><b class="">To be held in conjunction with SC20, Atlanta, GA - Monday, November
16, 2020</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Research software engineers (RSEs) are critical to the impact of HPC, data science, and
the larger scientific community. They have existed for decades, though often not under that name. However, the past few years have seen the development of the RSE concept, common job titles, and career paths; the creation of professional networks to connect
RSEs; and the emergence of RSE groups at universities, national laboratories, and industry.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">This workshop will bring together RSEs and allies involved in HPC, from all over the
world, to grow the RSE community by establishing and strengthening professional networks of current RSEs and RSE leaders. We’ll discuss the current activities and plans of national RSE organizations, discuss the needs of RSEs and RSE groups, and write a report
on ways RSE organizations can help address these.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Most of the workshop time will be spent in interactive discussions, preceded by a keynote
address and several shorter talks to establish context.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Submissions</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We encourage prospective participants to submit position papers (limit of 2 pages, not
counting references; no format prescribed) on topics related to RSE issues, including (but not limited to):</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Career paths: how do RSEs want to be hired, promoted and evaluated?</span></p>
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<div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Building RSE organizations:
how to find RSEs in your country/region and how to motivate them to join the network and engage?</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Supporting RSE organizations:
what can be done to help RSEs (and those supporting RSEs) at international, national, regional, and local levels?</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Making the business case for
RSEs and RSE groups: evidence, case studies, tactics?</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">How do we want funders to support
RSE roles and activities?</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Building in RSE requirements
as part of wider research infrastructure</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Providing mentoring and training for RSEs</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Some submitters will be invited to present their papers at the workshop as lightning
talks or to participate as panelists where appropriate.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We also welcome proposals for discussion topics. Proposals should consist of a short
paragraph describing a problem or issue relevant to RSEs that could be useful to discuss in the workshop. Some of these proposals will be chosen to guide the two discussion sessions in the program.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The deadline for submissions is Friday, August 14, 2020, at 11:59 PM AoE (UTC-12). For
more details on the submission process, see the workshop website at: </span><a href="https://us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2020/call/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">https://us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2020/call/</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Timeline</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Submissions open: Monday, June 29, 2020</span></p>
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<div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Submissions due: Friday, August
14, 2020</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Notifications sent: Friday,
September 11, 2020</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Program finalized: Friday,
October 2, 2020</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Workshop date: Monday, November 16, 2020</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Organizing Committee</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Charles Ferenbaugh, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA</span></p>
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Notre Dame, USA</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Simon Hettrick, Software Sustainability
Institute, UK</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA</span></p>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">For
more information</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">See the workshop website:
</span><a href="https://us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2020/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">https://us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2020/</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Or contact the organizers:
</span><a href="mailto:sc-ws-rse-hpc@info.supercomputing.org" style="text-decoration-line: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">sc-ws-rse-hpc@info.supercomputing.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></p>
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CCS-7 - Applied Computer Science<br class="">
Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS T087<br class="">
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