Walking Randomly

One of the highlights of my attendance at the 2019 RICE Oil and Gas High Performance Computing event was the Women in HPC workshop. As a profession, HPC has very similar diversity issues to Research Software Engineering. In short, we need more diversity and the Women in HPC organisation is working towards that aim (side note – I am very happy that my employer, NAG, is a supporter of Women in HPC!)

The following call for participation was forwarded to me by Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh who asked me to repost it.

The tenth international Women in HPC workshop at ISC19 will discuss methods to improve diversity and provide early career women with the opportunity to develop their professional skills and profile. The workshop will include:

• Becoming an advocate and ally of under-represented women
• Putting in place a framework to help women take leadership positions
• Building mentoring programmes that work effectively for women.
• Posters and lightning talks by women working in HPC
• Short talks on: dealing with poor behaviour at work and how to help avoid it getting you down, how to deal with negative feedback, how to build writing into your daily routine and why it matters, etc.

Deadline for submissions: March 18th 2019

As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a poster. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasize the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc.

Exclusive to WHPC at ISC19: Successful authors will have the opportunity to present their poster in the main ISC19 conference poster session.

For full details please see: https://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-isc19/workshop/submit/

Workshop Organising Committee

• Workshop Chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh (University of Sheffield, UK)
• Co-chair: Toni Collis (Appentra S.L., Spain)
• Co-chair: Misbah Mubarak (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
• Submissions Chair: Weronika Filinger (EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Submissions Vice Chair: Khomotso Maenetja (University of Limpopo, South Africa)
• Mentoring Chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
• Invited Talks Chair: Gokcen Kestor (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
• Publicity Chair: Cristin Meritt (Alces Flight, UK)
• Publicity Vice Chair: Aiman Shaikh (Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK)
• Volunteer: Shabnam Sadegh (Technical University of Munich)