************************************************ Call for Participation

9th International Women in HPC Workshop: Held in conjunction with SC 18, Dallas, TX Sunday, Nov. 11 9:00-5:30pm

https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/workshop/ ************************************************

Progam:

Session I: Keynote

9:00-9:05 Misbah Mubarak- Argonne National Laboratory Welcome

9:05-10:00 Ruby Mendenhall - Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Keynote Speaker "A Black Woman's Sojourn in High Performance Computing: Recovering Lost History"

Session II: Thriving at Work (Hot Topics Discussion)

10:00 - 10:10 Linda Akli - Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) "Being a diversity ally‹what it means and how you can help"

10:10 - 10:20 Maytal Dahan - Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) "Telecommuting boss - being a successful remote employee"

10:20 - 10:30 Laura Schulz - Leibniz Supercomputing Center "Leadership strategies in HPC"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:10 Lorna Rivera - Georgia Institute of Tech. "Effectively responding to discrimination"

11:10 - 11:20 Lucy Nowell - DoE Office of Science "Effective workplace communication"

11:20 - 11:30 Carissa Holohan - Argonne National Laboratory "Coming out as a transgender woman at a major HPC center"

Session II: Thriving at Work.. continued (Panel Discussion)

11:30 - 12:30 Christine Cuicchi - Department of Defense (Panel chair and panelist) Panel Discussion: "Best practices from organizations on improving workplace diversity"

Ruby Mendenhall - Univ. of Illinois (panelist) Lucy Nowell - Dept. of Energy Office of Science (panelist) Yvonne Yang - Intel Corporation (panelist)

Session III: Early career lightning talks 2:00 - 3:00 Weronika Filinger and Gokcen Kestor (Chairs)

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break

Session IV: Developing workplace resilience & managing stress 3:30 - 4:30 Toni Collis - Appentra Hands on discussion session working through the 'resilience toolkit'

4:30 - 5:20 Toni Collis - Apentra (Panel chair) Panel Discussion: "How to build resilience" Laura Schulz - Leibniz Supercomputing Center (panelist) Maytal Dahan - Texas Advanced Computing Center (panelist) Kaoutar El maghraoui - IBM Research (panelist) Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh - Univ. of Sheffield (panelist)

5:20 - 5:30 Misbah Mubarak (Argonne) & Toni Collis (Appentra) Workshop Outcomes and closeup

Best Regards, Women-in-HPC Workshop Organizing Committee