<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div><br></div><div>As an additional item to think about: in 2018, EuroMPI will again be outside the US and so we can go back to our normal routine. Additionally, though, SIAM-PP will be in Tokyo in the spring of 2018 and I was approached by the organizers whether we could co-locate the March forum meeting. The idea was to help each other increase attendance based on the observation that a good number of the regular MPI forum attendees were also part of SIAM-PP 2016, which was in Paris. Are we interested in pursuing this? If so, in addition or instead of EuroMPI?</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I like SIAM-PP instead of EuroMPI because I am far more likely to attend the former, and I shared the observation about how many folks were in Paris for PP16.</div><div><br></div><div>However, it will likely hurt EuroMPI, because some institutions' travel policies may not let folks attend foreign conferences that are not top-tier, whereas attending an industry working group of which the institution is a voting member is a compelling reason to travel.</div><div><br></div><div>It might be good to poll people on whether moving the MPI Forum decreases the likelihood that they or their colleagues will submit to EuroMPI.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Jeff Hammond<br><a href="mailto:jeff.science@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeff.science@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://jeffhammond.github.io/" target="_blank">http://jeffhammond.github.io/</a></div>
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