<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif;" class="">2016 New York Scientific Data Summit (NYSDS)</span></i></b><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b class=""> </b></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The New York Scientific Data Summit (NYSDS) aims to accelerate data-driven discovery and innovation by bringing together researchers, developers and end-users from academia, industry, utilities and state and federal governments. Jointly organized by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Stony Brook University (SBU), New York University (NYU) and the IEEE Computer Society Long Island Chapter the conference will take place at NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South,
New York, NY 10012 USA on August 14-17, 2016.</span><b class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The theme of this year's conference is "Data-Driven Discovery."</span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Website </span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.bnl.gov/nysds16/reg/step1.php" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" class="">https://www.bnl.gov/nysds16/</span></a></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">With keynote speakers from industry and international big-science projects, the 2-1/2 day conference is organized into five sessions with topics including streaming data analysis, long term data storage, curation, and sharing, experimental data, industry solutions and challenges for big data and the convergence of data and HPC.</span><b class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Sponsors include BNL, the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at SBU, the NYSTAR High-Performance Computing Consortium (HPC2), New York University Center for Data Science, the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment and the IEEE Computer Society Long Island Chapter.</span><b class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">We are looking for original research paper or poster contributions related to analysis or visualization of scientific data. Two–four page extended abstracts describing the paper or poster must be received by April 25, 2016 and can be submitted through:</span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.bnl.gov/nysds16/abstracts.php" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">https://www.bnl.gov/nysds16/abstracts.php<b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Registration to the conference can be made through: </span><b class=""><a href="https://www.bnl.gov/nysds16/reg/step1.php#form" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" class="">https://www.bnl.gov/nysds16/reg/step1.php#form</span></a></b><b class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">• Scientific data management</span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">• Visual analytics, and scientific visualization</span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">• Streaming methods for analysis, collection and visualization of scientific data</span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">• Real time interaction with scientific data</span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">• Distributed, parallel or MapReduce based methods applied to scientific data</span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">• Scientific data case studies</span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">• Industry solutions for handling large scientific data</span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">For more information contact conference coordinator:</span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Lauri Peragine</span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="tel:631-344-7090" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">631-344-7090</a>
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