International Conference on Parallel Computing, October 3-4, 1996

The Supercomputer Institute and IBM Corporation are sponsoring the International Conference on Parallel Computing from October 3-4, 1996. The conference, formerly scheduled to take place in San Jose, California in August, has been moved to Minneapolis.

The conference will bring together scientists and post-graduate students to discuss distributed parallel applications in computational sciences and to foster cross-disciplinary interactions in the general area of high-performance computing. There will be a mix of talks dealing with novel programming and algorithmic aspects as well as state-of-the-art technical advances. Invited speakers will be from around the world and are currently being contacted. This will be a concentrated forum to discuss progress on enhancing the number of applications that run in parallel.

Symposium on Modeling in Biochemical Engineering, October 11-12, 1996

The conference will bring together scientists and post-graduate students to discuss distributed parallel applications in computational sciences and to foster cross-disciplinary interactions in the general area of high-performance computing. There will be a mix of talks dealing with novel programming and algorithmic aspects as well as state-of-the-art technical advances. Invited speakers will be from around the world and are currently being contacted. This will be a concentrated forum to discuss progress on enhancing the number of applications that run in parallel.

The main objectives of the conference are to examine the principal methods currently used to model biological systems, and to delineate future directions for modeling that will foster a distinctively creative role from chemical engineers in the economic exploitation of bioprocesses. The conference will also serve as an occation to honor Professor Arnold G. Fredrickson, University of Minnesota, for his outstanding contributions to the modeling of microbial processes.

Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms, October 21-25, 1996

The Supercomputer Institute and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications are jointly sponsoring a Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms which will take place October 21-25, 1996. It will bring together key researchers for a concentrated discussion of theory and applications of evolutionary algorithms, including genetic algorithms, evolution strategies for problem solving and evolutionary programming. The workshop will be organized around a limited number of plenary lectures with generous blocks of time for interactive discussion sessions.

The workshop will be of interest to:

• practitioners from industry with applications in search, optimization, and machine learning
• mathematicians working in dynamical systems and Markov processes
• people interested in application areas and algorithms for high-performance computing.

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