[IPDPS] IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing -- Call for Nominations

[Manish Parashar]

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     		 2016 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing
                				Call for Nominations
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The IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing is awarded for significant 
and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community through the IEEE 
Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record 
of high quality and high impact research. The award consists of a plaque and an 
honorarium of $1000. 

The past recipients of the IEEE TCSC award of excellence are: Jack Dongarra (University 
of Tennessee, USA) in 2008, Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) in 2009, 
William Gropp (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) in 2010, Professor Albert 
Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) in 2011, David Abramson (Monash University, 
Australia) in 2012, Marc Snir (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2013, Yves Robert 
(UMR CNRS, ENS Lyon, INRIA, France) in 2014, and Ivan Foster (University of Chicago 
and Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2015.

Further details about the award can be found at the IEEE TCSC website: 
https://www.ieeetcsc.org/awards/award_for_excellence


Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members
or may nominate him/her-self. An individual can nominate at most one
candidate for this award. The candidate must be an IEEE, IEEE CS, and
TCSC member in good standing. Nomination must be submitted via email 
to tcsc-awards at rutgers.edu.  A nomination application (as a single 
PDF file) should contain the following details:

1. Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current
    professional affiliations and titles.

2. Citation: Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely
    stating the most salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified
    for the award.

3. Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical
    achievements as well as significance and impact. (Max 2 page
    length)

4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate’s service and specific
    contributions to TCSC and its community activities. (Max 2 page
    length)

5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three
    at least endorsers. An endorser can endorse only one candidate for
    this award. The endorsers will be required to comment on the
    nominee's technical contributions as well as service to the TCSC
    and its community. The endorsement letters should be included in
    the nomination package.


Important Dates:
	Nomination Deadline:  February 01, 2016
	Result Notification:  March 01, 2016


Award Selection Note: The award will presented at the 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium 
on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2016)to be held in Cartagena, Columbia from 
May 16 to 19, 2016. The winner should be available to receive the award in person and present 
a keynote talk at the CCGrid 2016 conference. For more information about the conference 
please see https://ccgrid2016.uniandes.edu.co.


Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consist of past winners, 
leaders in the field, as well as members of the TCSC Executive Committee.


The selection committee for 2016 is composed of:
	Barbara Chapman, Stony Brook University, USA
	Ian Foster, University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, USA
	Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
	Padma Raghavan, Pennsylvania State University, USA
	Yves Robert, UMR CNRS, ENS Lyon, INRIA, France
	Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia


Chairs:
	Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA 
        (Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu)
	Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy 
        (Email: beniamino.dimartino at unina dot it)

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