CALL FOR ABSTRACTS HAS NOW CLOSED
Deadlines: Extended abstract submissions due by end of day on Monday, January 18th. Abstracts will be reviewed by the conference committee as they are submitted. Notifications will be sent through email from the EasyChair system by January 27th.
Accepted abstract submissions will need to submit their recorded presentations (slides being posted is optional) by February 10th. The conference committee will review recorded presentations as they are submitted until February 17th. Once approved, the recorded presentations (slides optional) will be published in the conference portal and website. Please note, presenters will need to sign a Media Release form (see below for document).
We are pleased to announce that we will be accepting abstract proposals for consideration to the 14th annual virtual Oil & Gas High Performance Computing Conference.
The conference is the premier meeting place for the energy industry to engage in conversations about challenges and opportunities in high performance computing, computational science and engineering, machine learning, and data science. Attended by more than 500 leaders and experts from the energy industry, academia, national labs, and IT industry, this is a unique opportunity for key stakeholders to engage and network to help advance HPC in the energy industry.
Computation, data, and information technology continue to stand out across the energy industry as critical business enablers. Recent advances in machine learning, deep learning, robotics, and AI are emerging, and there is convergence between these emerging areas and HPC. With the end of Moore’s law, challenges are mounting around a rapidly changing technology landscape. However, the end of one era is also an opportunity for advancements and the beginning of a new era – a renaissance for system architectures highlights the need for investments in people (workforce), algorithms, software innovations, and hardware platforms to support system scalability and demands for increasing digitization across the energy sector.
The conference program will feature a mix of invited talks by leading experts, complemented by thematically organized sessions with recorded talks selected from submitted abstracts. We invite prospective speakers to submit abstracts that highlight technology, use-cases, and solutions that support data-driven discovery and decision making.
Accepted abstracts will be asked to record a 10-15 minute presentation as part of the conference program. All recorded abstract presentations will be reviewed by the committee prior to final approval into the conference.
All speakers must attend (complimentary registration) the virtual conference to answer attendee’s questions through the chat feature in the conference portal. For the virtual conference, recorded presentations will be published in the conference portal and website. Following the conference, the presentation will be posted on Ken Kennedy Institute’s YouTube channel, and a PDF copy of the slides can be shared on the conference web page (optional).
Please use the following guidelines when preparing your extended abstract submission:
- One page (not including graphics, bio, and references as needed).
- Extended abstracts should contain: title; list of all author(s) with identifying and contact information; short abstract (not to exceed 350 words); up to 5 keywords; followed by short sections covering: (1) Motivation, (2) Hypothesis, (3) Methods and Results, and (4) Conclusion. Please review the abstract template.
- Extended abstracts must be uploaded as a PDF in EasyChair.
- The short abstract and the keywords from your extended abstract must also be pasted into the appropriate text box in the web submission form in EasyChair.
Deadlines: Extended abstract submissions due by end of day on Monday, January 18th. Abstracts will be reviewed by the conference committee as they are submitted. Notifications will be sent through email from the EasyChair system by January 27th. Accepted abstract submissions will need to submit their recorded presentations (slides being posted is optional) by February 10th. The conference committee will review recorded presentations as they are submitted until February 17th. Once approved, the recorded presentations (slides optional) will be published in the conference portal and website. Please note, presenters will need to sign a Media Release form (see below for document).
Submitting Recordings:
- You can record your lightning talk using Zoom. Create a meeting, share screen to show your poster slides, and hit the record button when ready to present. Your recording will either be saved to your computer or stored in Zoom cloud for easy access. Click here forstep by step instruction on how to record via Zoom.
- Email kenkennedy@rice.edu a shareable link to download your MP4 recording. Alternatively, you can request a link to upload your recorded presentation to Rice Box.
Note 1: This conference will consider and can accept abstracts for work that has previously been presented.
Note 2: Presentation proposals that appear to the conference committee as “marketing” will be rejected. Abstracts with a strong and compelling customer use-case with the focus on the innovation knowledge discovery enabled by the solution more than the product can be considered. Vendors interested in engaging are also encouraged to explore sponsorship.
Please share the call for participation with anyone that you think might be interested in submitting an extended abstract and/or attending the 14th Annual Oil & Gas High Performance Computing Conference at Rice University.
