Professional Interests and Activities Anne C. Elster

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Selected Professsional Service

International Standards Committee

• MPI: The Message Passing Interfaces Forum -- Committee Member (1992-1997).

Other International Committees and Projects

• Member Expert Advisory Panel on Research Infrastructure reporting to the Research and Innovation leadership of the Department of Science, Technology and Development, Danish Governement. Elster is one of 3 of 8 on the panel representing engineering and science. Advise how budgeted DKR 600 millon (2007-2009) is to be spent. Some related information at: Link

• Board Member of SIMS (Scandinavian Simulation Society) ,

• Committee Member Nordic European Grid -- a consoritum working on part of the EU GRID project application for EU FP6. The Nordic countries' NORDUGRID efforts play a major role here.

• First Oponent, PhD commitee at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, December 2002.

International Confence Committees

• Steering Committee Member, PARA conference series, (2005-present)

• Conference Organizer & Chair, PARA 2008 , May 13-16, 2008, Trondheim, Norway

• International Program Committee Membership:
  • PPAM 2009, to be held in Wroclaw (Poland), September 13-16, 2009
  • IPDPS 2009 (Applications)
  • SC'08 -- International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (a.k.a. Supercomputing), Austin, Texas, USA, November, 2008 (Co-Chair - Poster Committee)
  • SC'07 (Tutorial Committee)
  • ParCo 2007 "Parallel Computing 2007" organized by Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University, Sept. 4-7, Germany. Committee List ,
  • CCGrid05 (International Conference on Cluster Computing at Grids 2005) Cardiff, UK in May 2005. International Progam Committee Member list
  • SIMS 2006
  • SIMS 2005
  • SIMS 2004
  • SIMS 2003
  • SIMS 2002 ,

• Committee Member HPC Committee (TRP III), Research Council of Norway (2003-2004)

  
  Pictured above are:

  • RCN repentative Dr. Hilde Erlandsen
  • IT Director Roar Skålin, Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no)
  • Assoc. Prof. (Universitetslektor) Lina von Sydow, Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden;
  • RCN representative Dr. Gundmund Høst
  • Professor Knut Børve, Univ of Bergen, Norway;
  • Professor Risto Nieminen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (leader); and
  • myself -- Assoc. Prof. (Førsteamanuensis) Anne C. Elster, NTNU

• Project Leader -- subproject on Emerging Technologies (ET) -- Cluster Technologies within NOTUR (Norwegian High Performance Consortium). This subproject is a coordinated effort between NTNU and Univ. of Tromsø with anticipated funding through 2003 in excess of NOK 1million. A similiar subproject withing NOTUR-ET is on Grid Technology between Univ. of Oslo and Univ. of Bergen lead by Harald S. Simonsen (USIT/UiO).

• National Evaluation Committee regarding tenured position at Univ. of Tromsø

• National Evaluation Committee regarding promotion at Akershus College.

• Alternate Board Member (vara) of NOTUR (Norwegian National High Performance Computational Program), (fall 2001 - Oct. 2002) for Assoc. Prof. Anne Kværnø, Math, NTNU. Prof. Lasse Natvig, IDI, was my replacement while I was on leave Spring 2002.

University-level service (NTNU)

• Co-Founder and Co-Director Computational Science and Engineering Program at NTNU (2003 - 2006)
  This program is part of NTNUs ICT strategic initiative. Together with Prof. Einar Rønquist from our Mathematics department, I was the original co-leader for this program. Elster was responsible for HPC Infrastructure and Computer Science under this program whereas Prof. Rønquist represented Numerical Analysis. In 2007, NTNU was awarded the new national supercomputer co-funded by the Rearch Council of Norway. It's budget was NOK 30 million for the supercomputer system and another NOK 20 million invested by NTNU in related infrastructure (incl. a new machine room and a large back-up power system). In January 2007, I handed my directorship over to Dr. Jørn Amundsen to free up time to focus on other things related to HPC research.

• INFOSAM 2020 Member, "InfoSam 2020 The Information Society of 2020 - an exercise in planning for the future", collaboration between the Faculty (College) of Information Technology and Mathematics (IME), NTNU and Teknoligiråde the (Technologocal Council). Elster's participation included serving on a panel and being the co-author of two position papers (see Elster's list of Publications )

• Member -- NTNUs Committe of Computational Research and Education (BFU (Utvalg for beregningsorientert forskning og undervisning)) (fall 2002 - 2003)

• Member (alternate for Pauline Haddow) -- Executive group (ledergruppe) for Strategic Univ. Program in Medical Technology (fall 2002 - spring 2003).

• Committee Member of Computational Science & Engineering project at NTNU , Jan 2001-present.

Department-level service (IDI/NTNU)

• Alternate Member -- Teaching Committee, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, NTNU (summer 2005 - present). See: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/english/organization/ for a list of current members, committees, etc.
• Board Member -- Dept. of Computer and Information Science, NTNU (spring 2001 - 2005). See: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/english/organization/ for a list of current members, committees, etc.
• Member -- Committee of Physical Resources -- Dept. of Computer and Information Science, NTNU (spring 2001 - 2005). See: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/english/organization/ for a list of current members, committees, etc.
• Alternate member -- Committee of Infrastructure and Research Equipment -- Dept. of Computer and Information Science, NTNU (spring 2001 - 2005). See: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/english/organization/ for a list of current members, committees, etc.
• Third Opponent , PhD Committe for Roxana Diaconescu, serving with Reidar Conradi and Prof. Monica Lam (Stanford), 2002. Thesis title: "Object-Based Concurrency for Data Parallel Applications: Programmability and Effectiveness"
• Floor Fire "Chief" , 2002-2003. This duty was passed on to Karstein Karlsen as of April 1, 2003.

Conferences and Workshops Organized

• PARA 2008 , May 13-16, 2008, Trondheim, Norway (also listed above)
• CSE Workshop in Trondheim Oct. 15, 2003 -- Info & Program
• NTNU CS Graduate Student Conference Organized the first conference held in 2001, and was a co-organizer in 2002. The conference series has been very succesful and is more popular than ever.
• DMY-98 Conference

Minisymposia Organized

• Minisymposium on HPC Environments: Visualization and Parallelization Tools at PARA'06 in Umeå, Sweden, June 18-21, 2006. The Minisymposium has 12 speakers.
• Minisymposium on Cluster Computing at PARCO 2003 http://rparco.urz.tu-dresden.de/PARCO2003/schedule.php
• Minisymposiums on Parallel Iterative Methods (together with Dr. David R. Kincaid) at Tenth SIAM Conference and Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, March 12-14, 2001, Portsmouth, VA, USA. http://www.siam.org/confpart/showmin.cfm?SESSIONCODE=231

Journal and Conference Reviewer

• Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing (2003 -present)
• Reviewer for NIK 2001 and NIK 2002
• Reviewer for several other conferences and journals

CONFERENCE SESSION CHAIRs:

Professional Memberships:

• ACM
• IEEE
• IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE Signal Processing Society
• IEEE Women in Engineering
• SIAM

as well as:

• AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
• AAUW (American Association of University Women)
• AGU (American Geophysical Union) -- Life member
• NFA (Norwegian Automation Society) ,
• NIF (Norwegian Engineering Society)
• NORSIG (Norwegian Signal Processing Society)
• SIMS (Scandinavian Simulation Society)

It was last updated on May 2, 2007. Comments welcome.