Monday, January 10, 2011

[DMANET] LSSC 2011 conference

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we invite you to participate in the 7th International Conference on Large Scale Scientific Computation - LSSC'11, June 6 - 10, 2011, Sozopol, Bulgaria, with arrival: June 5 and departure: noon June 10.

The conference include following special sessions:

* ROBUST MULTIGRID, MULTILEVEL AND MULTISCALE, DETERMINISTIC AND STOCHASTIC METHODS FOR MODELING HIGHLY HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA by R. Lazarov (TA&MU, College Station, USA), P. Vassilevski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) and L. Zikatanov (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
* ADVANCED METHODS FOR TRANSPORT by P. Bochev (Sandia National Laboratory, USA), D. Ridzal (Sandia National Laboratory, USA) and M. Shashkov (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
* CONTROL AND UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS by M. Krastanov (IMI BAS, BG) and V. Veliov (TU-Vienna, AT and IMI BAS, BG)
* APPLICATIONS OF METAHEURISTICS TO LARGE-SCALE PROBLEMS by S. Fidanova (IICT BAS, BG) and G. Luque (University of Malaga, Spain)
* ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING by A. Ebel (University of Cologne, DE), K. Georgiev (IICT BAS, BG) and Z. Zlatev (NERI, DK)
* LARGE SCALE COMPUTING ON MANY-CORE ARCHITECTURES by G. Haase (Karl-Franzens-University Graz, AT)
* MULTISCALE INDUSTRIAL, ENVIROMENTAL AND BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS by O. Iliev (ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany) and P. Popov (IICT BAS, BG and TA&MU, College Station, USA)
* EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS OF COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY, by L. Dechevski and A. Lakså (both from Narvik University College, Norway)
* HIGH PERFORMANCE MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS, by A. Karaivanova , T. Gurov and E. Atanassov (IICT BAS, BG)

Carlos Cotta from University of Malaga, Spain will be a key lecture.

Proceedings
We plan to continue publishing the proceedings of only refereed and presented papers as a special volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Important deadlines
Deadline for submission of abstracts
January 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance of the talks on the basis of the submitted abstract
January 31, 2011
Deadline for submission of full papers
March 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance of full papers
April 30, 2011


Abstracts and contributed papers
The abstracts (up to 1 page stating clearly the originality of the results) are to be written in standard LaTeX. The length of the contributed papers is limited up to 8 pages. It is assumed that one participant will present not more than one talk.

Send the abstracts and papers to special session organizers and conference organizers, indicating the name of the special session. After sending the abstract go to the conference web page and fill in the registration form (personal data of the participants, minimum one per paper, and the name of the special session).

Information about abstract and paper preparation, accommodation, transportation, registration form and conference location you can find at the conference web page http://parallel.bas.bg/Conferences/SciCom11.html

Metaheuristic session organizers
Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova (stefka@parallel.bas.bg), Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (former Institute for Parallel Processing), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Assist. Prof. Gabriel Luque (gabriel@lcc.uma.es), University of Malaga, Spain.
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