PASC23 Keynote Talks by PRACE Award Winners & Participation Opportunities for Students and Early Career

The PASC23 team is delighted to host plenary talks by the winners of the “PRACE HPC Excellence Award” and of the “PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC” in the form of two 30-minute presentations during the closing keynote slot of the event program. Nominations for these prizes are currently open on the PRACE portal. PASC23 is also inviting applications for a range of opportunities to make participation in the conference more affordable for students and early career professionals. We are grateful to the event partner SIGHPC for supporting the travel grants, and look forward to welcoming young HPC enthusiasts to Davos in the end of June.

PRACE HPC Excellence Award 2023

This award recognizes an outstanding individual or team for ground-breaking research using HPC that leads to significant scientific advances. The prize will be presented at the PASC23 Conference in the form of a 30-minute plenary talk. The focus of the award is on the impact of the winning research on science and HPC, rather than on the performance aspects.

The winner will receive a prize sum of € 20’000.

Applications close April 3, 2023, at noon. Further information on this opportunity is available on the conference website.

PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2023

Launched in 2016, the Award is annually presented to a female scientist who makes an outstanding contribution to and impact on HPC in Europe and the world, and serves as a role model for women who are at the start of their scientific careers.

The winner will receive a prize sum of € 1’000.

Applications close April 3, 2023, at noon. Additional information on the application process can be found on the conference website.

Student travel grants

We are pleased to remind you that SIGHPC will support four travel grants to enable undergraduate or graduate students to attend the event. In addition to the travel assistance, PASC23 will cover the corresponding registration fees.

Applications close April 6, 2023. Further information on the application process is available here.

Early career travel grants

We are pleased to announce that this year, for the first time, support for attending PASC23 will also be granted to four early career professionals who meet SIGHPC requirements.

Applications close April 6, 2023. Further information on this offering and on the application process is available here.

Student Volunteer Program

If you are an undergraduate, master, or doctoral student in Computational Science, HPC, or related fields, and you enjoy working in a dynamic and enthusiastic team, don’t miss the chance to experience the conference as a volunteer for PASC23. If you are selected as a volunteer for PASC23 you will receive complimentary conference registration.

Information on how to apply, and some impressions from volunteers who participated in previous years, are available here.

We look forward to receiving your application!