CALL FOR MINISYMPOSIA
Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC27)
Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano, Switzerland
June 28 – 30, 2027
Deadline: 09 December 2026 (no extensions)
The PASC Conference series is an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of knowledge in scientific computing and computational science with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, workflows, application challenges, and novel techniques in the context of scientific usage of high-performance computing.
The Conference is co-sponsored by the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS – a unit of ETH Zurich) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The conference is managed by CSCS. The event will be hosted at Palazzo dei Congressi, in Lugano, Switzerland.
The technical program of PASC27 is organized around the following scientific domains:
* Chemistry and Materials (incl. ceramics, metals, polymers)
* Climate, Weather, and Earth Sciences (incl. solid earth dynamics)
* Applied Social Sciences and Humanities (incl. behavioral, economic, legal, political, business, philosophy, languages, the arts, ethics in computing such as environmental impact of HPC, mitigation of biases in algorithms, machine learning, etc.)
* Engineering (incl. computational fluid dynamics, computational mechanics, computational engineering, materials, acoustics, signal processing, etc.)
* Life Sciences (incl. biophysics, computational biomechanics, genomics, bioinformatics, systems biology, neuroscience, and computational biology)
* Physics (incl. astrophysics, cosmology, plasma physics, and quantum information sciences)
* Computational Methods and Applied Mathematics
We also encourage submissions that explore AI across all the above areas.
Proposals that emphasize the theme of PASC27 – Accelerating Scientific Computing through AI-HPC Convergence: Open Challenges – are particularly welcome.
SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS
> In order to be allowed to submit a full proposal, minisymposium organizers must first submit an expression of interest.
The expression of interest consists of the following:
* Title
* Scientific domain(s): A primary domain and (preferably) additional domains.
* Organizer details: Names and contact details of organizers (up to three).
* Abstract: Description of the minisymposium (up to 500 words)
Organizers who submit an expression of interest will subsequently be invited to submit the full proposal. The full proposal consists of the following:
* Title
* Scientific domain(s): A primary domain and optionally additional domains.
* Organizer details: Names and contact details of organizers (up to three).
* Presenter details: Names and contact details of four proposed speakers (three if the minisymposium proposal includes a discussion panel) and proposed titles for their presentations.
* Extended abstract: A description of the minisymposium that outlines the scope, describes the problems being addressed and their importance, and discusses current directions of research and methods being developed to solve these problems (up to 800 words).
* Abstract for publication: A short abstract for publication in the conference program (no more than 200 words).
* Diversity and Inclusivity: A statement on how you have addressed issues of diversity and inclusivity (geographical diversity – proposed speakers should come from different institutions and multiple countries – gender diversity, racial diversity, underrepresented groups, career stages (one of the four speakers must be an early stage researcher), and so on).
If the proposal is accepted, then presentation titles and abstracts (200 words) will be requested from each speaker.
Domain experts from the Minisymposia and Posters Program Committee will assess the expressions of interest and full proposals based on the following criteria:
* The work should be of significant current interest to the given scientific domain, and ideally, have potential application to other scientific domains.
* Research should be based on state-of-the-art numerical methods.
* The proposal should be designed such that the speakers bring a range of different perspectives and views to the topic.
* The suggestions for possible speakers must include at least one early career researcher and should consider diversity: geographical diversity – speakers from multiple institutions and multiple countries; diversity in terms of gender and other underrepresented groups; diversity in terms of career stage (one of the four speakers must be an early stage researcher) and expertise; diversity in terms of academia vs industry; and so on.
Proposals must be submitted through the PASC27 online submission portal (https://submissions.pasc-conference.org/).
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
* 09 December 2026: Deadline for expressions of interest (NO EXTENSIONS!)
* 15 January 2027: Deadline for full submissions (NO EXTENSIONS!)
* 24 February 2027: Acceptance notifications
* 20 March 2027: Deadline for abstracts from presenting speakers
Deadlines correspond to anywhere on Earth ('AoE' or 'UTC-12').
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION TERMS
Conference contributors whose submissions are accepted for presentation at the conference are expected to present their work on-site.
Please note that PASC27 is unable to reimburse the expenses or waive the registration fees of organizers and speakers. All organizers and speakers must register for the conference and are subject to the corresponding registration fees.
MINISYMPOSIA AND POSTERS PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chairs
* Cristina Silvano (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
* Erik Draeger (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US)
Scientific Committee
* Hartwig Anzt (TU Munich, Germany)
* Kate Arneson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US)
* Allison Baker (The National Center for Atmospheric Research, US)
* Silvia Ceccacci (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
* Davide Gadioli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
* Marta Garcia Gasulla (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
* Rinku Gupta (Argonne National Laboratory, US)
* Nikoli Dryden (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US)
* Iva Kavcic (Met Office, UK)
* Sarah Knepper (Intel Corp, US)
* Yan Liu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
* Hatem Ltaief (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
* Lois McInnes (Argonne National Laboratory, US)
* Bronson Messer (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
* David Moxey (King’s College London, UK)
* Aiichiro Nakano (University of Southern California, US)
* Miroslava Nedylakova (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
* Sarah Osborn (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US)
* Danny Perez (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US)
* Matej Praprotnik (National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia)
* Andreas Prein (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
* Paolo Ricci (EPFL, Switzerland)
* Sinead M. Ryan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
* Philipp Schlatter (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany)
* Yucheng Yang (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
* Julija Zavadlav (TU Munich, Germany)
Questions regarding the submission and review process can be addressed to info [at] pasc-conference.org.