The seventh IMACs conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena chaired by Prof. Taha will be held at UGA in April. It is sponsored by NSF, IMACS, UGARF, Franklin College, President's Venture Fund and the CS dept.

Prof. Taha is the general chair of the Eighth IMACS conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena to be held at the GA Center in March 2013. For more info please visit waves.uga.edu.

Recent Ph.D graduate Mario Nakazawa, M.S. graduate Wenduo Zhou, and Prof. David Lowenthal have an upcoming paper in Supercomputing 2005 entitled "The MHETA Execution Model for Heterogeneous Clusters". This year's Supercomputing accepted only 25% of submissions. Prof. Lowenthal also has another paper with collaborators at NC State entitled "Just In Time Dynamic Voltage Scaling: Exploiting Inter-Node Slack to Save Energy in MPI Programs"

Josh Brown (recent MSCS graduate) was recently notified that his research work had been accepted for presentation at a conference in Mexico; details: W.J. Brown and W.D. Potter, "Using Iterated Local Search With Adaptive Memory to Find Snake-In-The-Box Codes," in the 4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI'05, Monterrey, Mexico, November 14-18, 2005.

Maciej Janik (CS PhD student), and Dr. Kochut have a paper at the upcoming ISWC 2005 in Galway, Ireland, in November.

Dr. Ramaswamy's paper entitled "A Distributed Approach to Node Clustering in Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Networks" has appeared in this month's issue of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Vol 16, Number 9). The complete list of authors (in the order appearing in the paper) are: Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Bugra Gedik (Gatech) and Ling Liu (Gatech).

Graduate students Chunmei Liu and Yinglei Song have co-authored with Dr. Liming Cai three research papers accepted by recent and upcoming competitive international conferences in bioinformatics CSB'05, WABI'05, and PSB'06 (with acceptance rates 15% ~ 30%).

The year 2006 represents 50 years of AI research, an occassion that is being celebrated with special issues of AI journals and expanded programs at AI conferences, most notably the prestigious AAAI conference held at Boston that was attended by many researchers. From our department, Prof. Doshi participated in AAAI by organizing a workshop and presenting two papers in the main technical program of the conference.

Prof. Lowenthal's two journal papers were accepted recently:

Vincent W. Freeh, David K. Lowenthal, Feng Pan, Robert Springer, Nandani Kappiah, Barry Rountree, and Mark Femal. Analyzing the Energy-Time Tradeoff in High Performance Computing Applications To appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Chris Bentley, Scott A. Watterson, David K. Lowenthal, and Barry Rountree. Implicit Array Bounds Checking on 64-bit Architectures. To appear in ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optmization

"Design and Evaluation of a Diagrammatic Notation to Aid in the Understanding of Concurrency Concepts" by Shaohua Xie, Eileen Kraemer, and R.E.K. Stirewalt has been accepted for the Software Engineering Education Track of ICSE 2007.

Shaohua Xie is a PhD student in the UGA CS Dept and REK Stirewalt is her collaborator, and an Associate Professor at Michigan State University.