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Dear Everyone
<p>The Center for Scientific Research of Universidad de Los Andes
<br>(CeCalCULA, <A HREF="http://www.cecalc.ula.ve">http://www.cecalc.ula.ve</A>) announces the
<br>Second Latin-American Course on Parallel and High Performance Computing,
<br>to be held in Mérida, Venezuela, from December 3 to 7, 2001.
<p>This course is aimed to undergraduated, postdoctoral, Ph.D. students
and junior research
<br>faculty working in computational areas related to Chemistry, Physics,
Mathematics, Biology,
<br>surface science, catalysis and other related sciences. Participants
are expected to have
<br>basic theoretical knowledge on computational sciences. This year,
Grid Computing,
<br>a novel paradigm aiming to exploit a large number of resources
<br>geographically distributed through the Internet, will be the main focus
of the course.
<p>Professors:
<br>John Boisseau - Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA
<br>Jack Dongarra - University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Lab,
USA
<br>Barton Miller - University of Wisconsin
<br>Henry Casanova - University of California, USA
<br>Ben Segal - CERN, Switzerland.
<br>Antonio Redondo - Los Alamos, USA
<br>Z. Hong Zhou - University of Texas - Health Science Center, USA
<br>Gustavo Scuseria - Rice University, USA
<br>Alfonso Muñoz - Universidad de la Laguna, Spain
<br>Reinaldo Pis Diez - La Plata, Argentina
<br>Victor Pereyra - Weidlinger Associates, USA
<br>José Castillo - San Diego State University, USA
<p>Registration
<br>The registration fee, US$500, covers lecture notes and social events.
More information
<br>can be found at <A HREF="http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/elpcar2/planilla00.html">http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/elpcar2/planilla00.html</A>
<p>Scholarships
<br>A reduced number of scholarships covering the registration fee will
be available. Overseas participants
<br>are encouraged to apply. Applications should include a
curriculum vitae and a letter of recommendation
<br>written by the supervisor.
<p>Exhibits
<br>Booths are available to sponsors of this event. Companies offering
services and/or products related
<br>to high performance computing, distributed computing, database integration,
bioinformatics,
<br>and other technologies, that could benefit from exhibiting, are encouraged
to contact us
<br>at elpcar2@cecalc.ula.ve.
<p>Posters
<br>Poster presentations will be chosen from abstracts received and approved.
Each participant
<br>is encouraged to submit one abstract. You MUST submit your abstract
by E-mail
<br>(elpcar2@cecalc.ula.ve). For further information please
send your
<br>inquiries to elpcar2@cecalc.ula.ve or <A HREF="http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/elpcar2/abstracts.html">http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/elpcar2/abstracts.html</A>
<p>Deadlines - Application form: October 30th 2001
<br>Notification: November 5th 2001
<br>Registration Fee Payment: October 30th 2001
<br>Poster submission: October 30th 2001
<p>Sponsors
<br>CONICIT
<br>FUNDACITE-Mérida
<br>SUN de VENEZUELA
<br>SILICON GRAPHICS de VENEZUELA
<br>IBM de VENEZUELA
<p>Additional information can be found at the
<br>Course's web site, at <A HREF="http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/elpcar2/">http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/elpcar2/</A>
<br>
<br>
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Dr. Raul Isea
Ph. D. in Chemistry
Email: risea@cecalc.ula.ve; lrisea@yahoo.com
<A HREF="http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/~risea">http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/~risea</A></pre>
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