Guidelines for Posters including ACM Student Research Competition

The Conference is co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the PASC structuring project and it is managed by the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). The local host of PASC25 is FHNW in Windisch.

This year for the second time, we are additionally hosting a Student Research Competition (SRC) sponsored by ACM with some travel financial support generously offered by SIGHPC. The competition seeks submissions from students who wish to showcase their research in the form of a poster presentation at the conference.

Poster presentations provide an ideal opportunity for the exchange of ideas and expertise within and between the various computational science domains represented at the conference. Poster submissions should describe topical research related to domain science, applied mathematics, computer science or software engineering. Posters that emphasize the theme of PASC25 – “Supercomputing for Sustainable Development” – are particularly welcome.

The technical program of PASC25 is organized around the following scientific domains:

SRC (Student Research Competition) general information

SRC PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS

1. Participants must be currently enrolled in a university or college and have an active ACM student membership
2. Team projects will be accepted from Undergraduate students. One person should be designated by the team to attend the conference and make the oral presentation. Should the designated presenter win first, second or third place in competition only they will receive the medal and monetary award. Only individual research is accepted from Graduate (Masters or PhD program) students; group research projects will not be considered. If an individual is part of a group research project and wants to participate in an SRC, they can only present their part of the research. Only they will receive the medal and monetary award (should they win).
3. Qualifying research areas are those covered by the conference; see above for details.
4. Students may only participate in one SRC per program year (April 1- March 31). Students that have applied to an SRC, but have not been accepted, may respond to other SRC calls for participation during the program year. However, a student who is accepted to multiple SRCs must withdraw their submission from all but one.

Further details on participating in the PRC can be found at https://src.acm.org/participate.

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS FOR SRC POSTERS

The poster submission should include the following information:

• Topic: A title for the poster of no more than 20 words
• Domain: Selection of a primary domain and optionally additional domains
• Author details: Full names and contact details of author(s)
• Abstract for review: A 2-page extended abstract, including all content, which must follow the ACM standard conference template.
• Abstract for publication: A description of the work for publication in the online program (no more than 200 words)

Poster submissions should be made through the PASC25 online submission portal, and will be reviewed by domain experts from the PASC25 SRC Posters Program Committee chaired by Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratories, USA).

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS FOR REGULAR POSTERS

The poster submission should include the following information:

• Topic: A title for the poster of no more than 20 words
• Domain: Selection of a primary domain and optionally additional domains
• Author details: Full names and contact details of author(s)
• Abstract for review: A description of the work in no more than 800 words
• Abstract for publication: A description of the work for publication in the online program (no more than 200 words)

Poster submissions should be made through the PASC25 online submission portal, and will be reviewed by domain experts from the PASC25 Minisymposia and Posters Program Committee.

GENERAL POSTER REQUIREMENTS

We will host poster presentations on site at FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch. Poster authors whose submissions are accepted for presentation at the conference, should thus plan to travel to Zurich and present their work on-site.

Please carry your physical poster to be hung up on poster boards (poster boards are 186 cm high x 121 cm wide).

We will host poster presentations on site at the FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch. These sessions are exclusively for on-site attendees.

You will also have the opportunity to be part of the flash poster session were you can “pitch” your poster to the conference audience in a rapid-fire flash session. You have maximum 30 seconds to engage the audience, so prepare well!

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