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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">The
2018 Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering Conference (SMC18)
is extending the registration deadline for participation in its 2<sup>nd</sup> Annual
Data Challenge. <b>Registration will be open through June 30, 2018.</b></span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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contest is open to students, faculty, and industry professionals who are
interested in performing novel analysis on real scientific data sets. Teams of
one to four people may participate. </span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">ORNL
data sponsors will provide teams with actual scientific data sets to explore 3
to 5 related challenge questions. The challenge questions for each data set
will cover multiple difficulty levels, with the first question in each
challenge being suitable for a novice, and each question thereafter increasing
in difficultly, with the series of questions ending with an advanced/expert
level challenge question. The top teams will be invited to attend SMC18 in
Gatlinburg, TN where they will present their work and the winner will be
crowned. Registration is open until June 30 and the competition ends July 31 (<b>submissions
are due by 5:00 p.m. Eastern on July 31</b>).</span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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Data Challenge is intended to draw scientists and researchers who may be at the
beginning stages of incorporating data analytics into their workflow, to data
analytics experts who are interested in applying novel techniques to data sets
of national importance.</span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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register, or for more information, visit the </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Data Challenge </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">website at </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://smc-datachallenge.ornl.gov" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://smc-datachallenge.ornl.gov</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">.</span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt"><span>Jibonananda Sanyal,
Ph.D.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt"><span>Staff Scientist and Team
Lead, <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt"><span>Scalable and High Performance Geocomputation, <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt"><span>GIST, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt"><span>Adjunct Faculty, CSE,
Mississippi State University<span></span></span></p>
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