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11th International Women in HPC workshop:

Diversifying the HPC community and Engaging Male Allies

Sunday November 17th 2019 — Denver, Colorado, USA

Call for lightning talks

https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc19/workshop

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Women-in-HPC will once again attend the Supercomputing conference to discuss

diversity and inclusivity topics. Activities will bring together women and male

allies from across the international HPC community, provide opportunities to network,

showcase the work of inspiring women, and discuss how we can all work towards

improving the under-representation of women in supercomputing.

The 11th International Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop at

SC19 in Denver brings together the HPC community to discuss the growing

importance of increasing diversity in the workplace. This workshop will

recognize and discuss the challenges of improving the proportion of women in

the HPC community, and is relevant for employers and employees throughout the

supercomputing workforce who are interested in addressing diversity.

Sessions will focus on the following areas:

- Surviving difficult events and how to minimize the impact on your career

- Managing and resolving imposter syndrome

- Building an effective professional network

- How to get a new job or promotion

- Behaviors for inclusion: coping strategies for unconscious bias and micro-aggression

- Being a parent, guardian and caregiver: dealing with the guilt

- Pointers on making and engaging male allies at workplace

Call for lightning talks: Now Open!

Deadline for submissions: August 14th 2019 AOE

As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and

academia to present their work as a lightning talk. This will promote the

engagement of women in HPC research and applications, provide

opportunities for peer to peer networking, and the opportunity to

interact with female role models and employers. Submissions are invited

on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts

should emphasise the computational aspects of the work, such as the

facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any

remaining challenges etc.

For full details please see:

https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc19/submit/

Workshop Committee

- Workshop Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

- Co-chair: Gokcen Kestor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

- General Chair: Toni Collis, Women-in-HPC co-founder and director

- Poster and Lightning Talks Chair: Mariam Umar, Intel corporation, USA

- Posters & Lightning Talks Vice Chair: Weronika Filinger, EPCC, University of Edinburgh,UK

- Mentoring chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, University of Sheffield, UK

Steering and Organisation Committee

- Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA

- Trish Damkroger, Intel, USA

- Kelly Gaither, TACC, USA

- Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC, USA

- Daniel Holmes, EPCC, UK

- Adrian Jackson, EPCC, UK

- Alison Kennedy, Hartree Centre, STFC, UK

- Lorna Rivera, CEISMC, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Programme Committee (for early career lightning talks)

- Elsa Gonsioworski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

- Raquell Holmes, Improvscience, USA

- Elizabeth Bautista, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

- Jo Adegbola, Amazon Web Services, USA

- Mozghan Kabiri, University of Sheffield, UK

- Karen Divine, Sandia National Laboratory, USA

- Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

- Hadia Ahmed, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

- Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

- Debbie Bard, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

- Rosa Filgueira, EPCC, UK

Regards, Mariam Umar