Voting Open for 2022 SIGHPC Election

SIGHPC members are encouraged to participate in this election.

On 4 April, members of SIGHPC (who were in good standing as of 15 March 2022) were sent voting information via an email message or post mail from Election Services Corporation (ESC), the third party company that is responsible for conducting the 2022 ACM SIG Elections. Members should have received the email if ACM has their current email address on file. If ACM does not have an email address on file, members will receive the voting information via post mail. Members will also have the option of requesting a paper ballot.

Please note that votes must be submitted by 16:00 UTC, 20 May 2022 [12noon EST].

Please vote! It is important that the voice of ALL members be heard.

ACM has approved the following slate of candidates for SIGHPC Officer positions. You can read each of their bios and statements at the ACM voting site.

Chair

• Christine Harvey, MITRE (unopposed)

Vice Chair

• Verónica G. Vergara Larrea, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Michela Taufer, The University of Tennessee

Treasurer

• Stephen Harrell, Texas Advanced Computing Center

• Christine Cuicchi, DOD High Performance Computing Modernization Program, Navy DSRC

Member at Large (2 positions)

• Melyssa Fratkin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

• Antonio Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

• Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputing Centre

• Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich

Officers serve three year terms, and the winners of this election will serve from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025. ACM conducts elections on behalf of all SIGs, and voting members will receive information about their ballots and the voting process in early April along with candidate statements.

According to the SIGHPC Bylaws, a petition from 1% of the voting members of SIGHPC will place other consenting candidates who are members of SIGHPC and ACM on the ballot. SIG members who wish to petition must inform ACM Headquarters, the SIG Viability Advisor, and the Secretary of the SIG of their intention by 15th March. Petitions must be submitted to ACM Headquarters for verification by 1st April.

Questions? Feel free to email them to John West at chair@sighpc.org.

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The program is intended to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees in data science and computational science, including women, as well as students from backgrounds that have been historically underrepresented in the computing field. The fellowship provides $15,000 annually for study anywhere in the world

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