<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Call for IPDPS Steering Committee Nomination</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">At its recent annual meeting in 2023, the IPDPS Steering Committee (SC) voted to recompose the committee in a phased manner over the next three years. The current members who have served over the years will retire by IPDPS 2026.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Nominations are sought for SC members. The membership will be for three years, renewable for three more years based on participation. The membership will be limited to at most two terms. Nominations can be made throughout the year, however, early submissions (by May 15) are strongly encouraged. Nominations will be discussed as they arrive by the Steering Committee, and it will make its recommendations to the SC Chair.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Nominations should include:</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;margin-left:63pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Name, affiliation, and professional history</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;margin-left:63pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Details of participation at IPDPS over the years (e.g., PC member, volunteer, published at IPDPS, workshop organizer, student volunteer, author)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;margin-left:63pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Highlights of service to the parallel and distributed processing community</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;margin-left:63pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Motivation and reasons for wanting to serve on the SC</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;margin-left:63pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Commitment to participate in person at the annual SC meetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Nominations should be in plain text and are limited to one page. Nominations should be sent via email to<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:volunteer@ipdps.org"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">volunteer@ipdps.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">. Attachments are not permitted; however, you may include links. Self-nominations are allowed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">IPDPS is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its activities, and aims to recruit volunteers representative of the diversity of the research community.</span></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>