[Bessig] Call for Papers: SEA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE & TUTORIALS 2017

[Cecilia Banner]

*A Reminder on the SEA 2017 Call for Papers, the deadline is approaching:*


*The future of software engineering in academic and research-based
organizations*

*Deadline for submissions: Feb 28th, 2017*



*Conference & Tutorials: April 10th-14th, 2017*

The sixth annual National Center for Atmospheric Research Software
Engineering Assembly (SEA) conference will take place in Boulder, CO, at
the NCAR Center Green Campus from April 10th to April 14th, 2017. The theme
for this year is the future of software engineering in academic and
research-based organizations.
BE A SPEAKER

We are soliciting 30 min. talks from all engineering disciplines with a
focus on all aspects of contemporary software engineering. We particularly
welcome talks from speakers who are underrepresented in the computational
sciences. Conference topics:

   1.

   Data Analysis and Visualization: Data-driven scientific discovery has
   become an essential component of modern science for many domains. Analysis
   and visualization are the means by which "data" is transformed into
   information, insight, and knowledge. We seek practitioners to highlight how
   their software engineering efforts serve science by driving the discovery
   process, or that facilitate conveying scientific results and concepts to a
   larger audience. Topics may include:
   1.

      Analytics for high-dimensional data
      2.

      Machine Learning
      3.

      Web-based analysis and visualization
      4.

      Parallel tools, methods, frameworks
      5.

      Communicating complex science to a broader audience (storytelling)
      6.

      Hierarchical algorithms for big-data
      7.

      Computing in support of field studies
      8.

      Fusion of disparate data sources
      9.

      Storage and retrieval of big-data

      2.

   Security and Compliance: Information security, a.k.a. cybersecurity, is
   receiving ever-increasing attention as a result of highly publicized data
   breaches and massive denial-of-service attacks powered by compromised
   computers and electronic devices. Organizations, especially financial and
   healthcare organizations, must adhere to federal laws and regulations.
   Security vulnerabilities in software often result from coding errors, so an
   attention to best practices can result in not only more secure software,
   but better software.
   1.

      General security mindset – why InfoSec is important
      2.

      Compliance: FISMA and other control families
      3.

      Common vulnerabilities and defenses in web applications
      4.

      Regression testing for vulnerabilities
      5.

      Security principles: Separation of duties, least privilege,
      contingency planning
      6.

      Logging for audit trails
      7.

      Configuration management

      3.

   Agile Software Development: Agile has become the new norm in the
   industry for IT development. Organizations are seeing tangible benefits
   such as improved quality, faster delivery times, reduced costs, and
   increased user satisfaction. Additionally, intangible benefits such as
   increased team and employee morale and job satisfaction are often a
   co-benefit. Soliciting talks and experience reports to highlight where the
   research community can draw from industry to improve results and workplace
   satisfaction.
   1.

      Agile software development introduction/basics
      2.

      Agile frameworks - Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, etc.
      3.

      Agile practices in scientific software development
      4.

      Agile and behavior-driven development (BDD) - Cucumber, etc.
      5.

      Case studies
      6.

      Useful tools/techniques

      4.

   Emerging Technology and Trends: Software engineering benefits from
   emergent technologies for developers and also the use of advanced hardware.
   We are soliciting speakers to highlight such emergent technologies for
   scientific programming. Modern programming language extensions such as
   object-oriented programming in Fortran 2008 is an example. HPC-centric
   extensions such as OpenACC, vectorization directives are other examples.
   Scientific programmers could benefit from the OpenHPC effort. The use of
   Jupyter within scientific programming is of interest.
   1.

      GitHub LFS
      2.

      GitHub Atom editor
      3.

      New FPGA programming methods
      4.

      Coarray Fortran and other PGAS languages (Possible Tutorial)
      5.

      In-situ analysis for HPC applications (exoscale)
      6.

      GPU APIs: Khronos Vulkan
      7.

      Docker for HPC (provenance)
      8.

      Lua in simulations and on scientific devices [embedding computing]

      5.

   The conference will also have 3 days of tutorials. We are soliciting
   tutorials that will focus on but not be limited to:
   1.

      Software Carpentry (Git, GitHub)
      2.

      Cloud hosting environments and workflows
      3.

      Continuous Integration / Delivery pipelines
      4.

      Docker / Containerization
      5.

      Shifter HPC
      6.

      Multicore software optimization

Abstracts can be submitted online at the conference registration website
<https://www.regonline.com/registration/checkin.aspx?EventId=1931850&MethodId=0&EventSessionId=&startnewreg=1>
:

For more information or questions please contact:

Nathan Wilhelmi

Software and Web Engineering Group Head

NCAR

wilhelmi at ucar.edu

303-497-1839

Important information

   - This conference has a zero tolerance policy for harassment of any
   kind. All attendees have the right to a space free of all forms of
   discrimination, harassment and retaliation. See here
   <https://sea.ucar.edu/non-discrimination-and-anti-harassment-policy> for
   details of the policy and how to seek help or report suspected harassment
   - Gender specific restrooms are located on the first floor.
   All-gender/gender neutral, single-stall restrooms are located on the third
   floor of the conference venue, next to conference room CG-3150.
   - Lactation rooms are available for use of workshop participants, and
   are located on the second floor, in CG-2615 and CG-2617. If you require a
   small refrigerator to be placed in either of these rooms, please contact
   the registration desk.
   - The conference venue is fully accessible to wheelchairs, including
   restrooms, but feel free to contact Davide Del Vento
   <http://staff.ucar.edu/users/ddvento> should you have a special need and
   would like to double-check.
   - Consider subscribing to our low volume mailing list
   <https://sea.ucar.edu/page/mailing-list>


Important dates

   - January 2017: call for talks and tutorials opens
   - February 28th: call for talks and tutorials closes
   - ...
   - Monday, April 10th : Conference starts
   - April 14th: Conference ends



-- 
*Cecilia Banner*
*NCAR/CISL*
*Boulder CO *
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