Subject: Second Latin-American Course in Merida, Venezuela

From: Raul Isea <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:45:26 -0300

Dear CCLers,

The Center for Scientific Research of Universidad de Los Andes
(CeCalCULA, http://www.cecalc.ula.ve) announces the
Second Latin-American Course on Parallel and High Performance Computing,

to be held in Mérida, Venezuela, from December 3 to 7, 2001.

This course is aimed to undergraduated, postdoctoral, Ph.D. students and
junior research
faculty working in computational areas related to Chemistry, Physics,
Mathematics, Biology,
surface science, catalysis and other related sciences.  Participants are
expected to have
basic theoretical knowledge on computational sciences.  This year,  Grid
Computing,
a novel paradigm aiming to exploit a large number of resources
geographically distributed through the Internet, will be the main focus
of the course.

Professors:
John Boisseau - Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA
Jack Dongarra - University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
Barton Miller - University of Wisconsin
Henry Casanova - University of California, USA
Ben Segal - CERN, Switzerland.
Antonio Redondo - Los Alamos, USA
Z. Hong Zhou - University of Texas - Health Science Center, USA
Gustavo Scuseria - Rice University, USA
Alfonso Muñoz - Universidad de la Laguna, Spain
Reinaldo Pis Diez - La Plata, Argentina
Victor Pereyra - Weidlinger Associates, USA
José Castillo - San Diego State University, USA

Registration
The registration fee, US$500, covers lecture notes and social events.
More information
can be found at http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/elpcar2/planilla00.html

Scholarships
A reduced number of scholarships covering the registration fee will be
available. Overseas participants
are encouraged to apply.   Applications should include a curriculum
vitae and a letter of recommendation
written by the supervisor.

Exhibits
Booths are available to sponsors of this event. Companies offering
services and/or products related
to high performance computing, distributed computing, database
integration, bioinformatics,
and other technologies, that could benefit from exhibiting, are
encouraged to contact us
at [email-masked].

Posters
Poster presentations will be chosen from abstracts received and
approved.   Each participant
is encouraged to submit one abstract. You MUST submit your abstract by
E-mail
([email-masked]).   For further information please send your
inquiries to [email-masked] or
http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/elpcar2/abstracts.html

Deadlines - Application form: October 30th 2001
Notification: November 5th 2001
Registration Fee Payment: October 30th 2001
Poster submission: October 30th 2001

Sponsors
CONICIT
FUNDACITE-Mérida
SUN de VENEZUELA
SILICON GRAPHICS de VENEZUELA
IBM de VENEZUELA

Additional information can be found at the
Course's web site, at http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/elpcar2/

--
Dr. Raul Isea
Ph. D. in Chemistry
Email: [email-masked];  [email-masked]
http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/~risea