PARA'04
                 WORKSHOP ON STATE-OF-THE-ART
                    IN SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
                       June 20-23, 2004
                 http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~jw/para04/
  
ORGANIZERS:
   Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.
   Kaj Madsen, Technical University of Denmark
   Jerzy Wasniewski, Technical University of Denmark
   
DATES:
   June 20, 2004: Tutorials: 1) Interval analysis, 
                             2) Automatic differentiation
   June 21-23, 2004:  PARA'04 Workshop sessions
   
PLACE: Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
    
FEATURES: Tutorials, key lectures, topical minisymposia, contributed
   talks, poster sessions, discussion panels.

KEY SPEAKERS: Richard Brent, Oxford University; Jack Dongarra, University
   of Tennessee; Iain Duff, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; Fred Gustavson,
   IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Per Christian Hansen, Technical Univer-
   sity of Denmark; Bo Kagstrom, University of Umeaa; Henrik Madsen, Technical
   University of Denmark; John Reid, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; Peter 
   Sloot, University of Amsterdam; Zahari Zlatev, National Environmental
   Research Institute.

MINISYMPOSIA: Interval methods; High performance linear algebra algorithms;
   Parallel processing in science and engineering; Distributed computing:
   tools, paradigms and infrastructures; Software engineering and problem
   solving environments for scientific computing; Runtime software tools for
   enhancing high-performance application; Sparse direct linear solvers: The
   substructuring/domain decomposition methods in structural and other app-
   lications; High-performance computing in earth and space science; Advanced
   algorithms and software components for scientific computing; Treatment of
   large scientific models.

DEADLINES:
   Minisymposium proposals:                December  31, 2003
   Abstracts of talks (at most 1 page):    January   31, 2004   
   Notification of acceptance:             February  29, 2004
   Extended abstracts (at most 7 pages):   April     15, 2004 
   Camera-ready papers (at most 10 pages): September 15, 2004

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: Short abstracts will be available on the PARA'04 URL
   page. The extended abstracts will be handed out at the beginning of the
   Workshop. The full papers will be published in the Springer series Lecture
   Notes in Computer Science after the conference. We are also planning to select
   a few of the papers for a special issue of a journal related to scientific
   computing.

FURTHER INFORMATION:
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   Inquiries:   PARA04, IMM, DTU, Bldg. 321
                    DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
                    Attn: Jerzy Wasniewski
                    Email: jw@imm.dtu.dk
                    Tel: +45 45 25 30 76 or +45 22 64 38 91
                    Fax: +45 45 88 26 73

SOCIAL EVENTS: There will be a reception June 21 and a conference dinner June
   22. Special entertainments for accompanying persons are planned. The evening
   of June 23, the eve of St. Hans' Day, is celebrated in Denmark by the lighting
   of bonfires. A visit to a bonfire will be arranged for those Workshop
   participants (and accompanying persons) who are still in the area.  

                                           Lyngby, November 17, 2003