First Announcement, IAC 2000

[Josef Froemcke]

********* First Announcement - Call for Participation ***********

        1st International AURORA Conference  (IAC 2000)

New Developments in Models, Applications, and Software Systems 
              for High Performance Computing

                  January 10 - 12, 2000
                     Vienna, Austria

Conference Chair:  Hans Zima, University of Vienna
Sponsor:  Austrian Science Fund (FWF)


AURORA, a special research program sponsored by the Austrian 
Science Fund (FWF),  focuses on models, applications and 
software systems for high performance computing.  Particular 
emphasis is placed on the research and development of algorithms,
high level languages, tools, and advanced scientific and commercial 
applications, such as quantum mechanics, semiconductor simulation, 
and financial optimization. 

The First International AURORA Conference is a forum to discuss new 
research in software and applications related to the developments 
in high performance architectures.
The conference will be held at the Vienna University of Technology 
on January 10-12, 2000.  The program includes keynote addresses, 
about 20 invited lectures, a panel discussion, and a poster session. 

Keynote speakers include:

o  John Connolly (University of Kentucky)  
o  Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee)
o  Piyush Mehrotra (ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center)

The preliminary program of IAC 2000 will be made available in June 1999.  
Questions relating to conference participation may be directed to
Josef Froemcke <jf@vcpc.univie.ac.at> or to the conference co-chairs,
Karlheinz Schwarz <heinz@homer.theochem.tuwien.ac.at> and Hans Zima 
<zima@par.univie.ac.at>. 

Further information on IAC 2000 is available at the conference Web 
site, http://www.vcpc.univie.ac.at/aurora/iac2000/, from where it 
will be possible to register electronically. Further details will be 
circulated by email to those on the conference mailing list.

Information about the AURORA project can be found at the AURORA 
Web site, http://www.vcpc.univie.ac.at/aurora.


Conference Committee 
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Engelbert Dockner    - University of Vienna, Austria
Thomas Fahringer     - University of Vienna, Austria
Friedel Hossfeld     - Juelich Research Center, Germany
Erasmus Langer       - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Georg Pflug          - University of Vienna, Austria
Karlheinz Schwarz    - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
David Singh          - Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., USA
Christoph Ueberhuber - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Willy Weisz          - European Center for Parallel Computing at Vienna
Hans Zima            - University of Vienna, Austria