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      <h2>ParslFest 2020 - The Parsl Community Meeting</h2>

      <p>Building on the success of ParslFest 2019, we are hosting the second Parsl Community Meeting as a virtual meeting in two half-day sessions on October 6 and October 7, 2020. </p>
      <p>ParslFest brings together researchers, developers, and cyberinfrastructure experts from around the country to discuss experiences using Parsl and to learn
      more about Parsl.</p>
	    
	    <p>If you are new to Parsl, check out this <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHTt0Pyb4_M'>BlueWaters tutorial</a>.</p>
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      <h3>Agenda</h3>

      <h4>Tuesday, October 6, 9 am - 1 pm CDT (14:00 - 18:00 UTC)</h4> 
    
      9:00 am - Welcome! - Kyle Chard, University of Chicago. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqOhzwHdnRk">Video</a> <br />
      
      9:20 am - Session 1 (Chair: Daniel S. Katz)
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        <li>Akila Ravihansa Perera, Enabling Economical Genome Analyses through Optimization and Scalable Workflows. <a href='parslfest2020-files/perera-genome.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61-ABqPI9yg">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Amanda Wijewickarama/Rajini Wijayawardana, SciFlow project using Parsl to execute Scientific Workflows on HPC resources. <a href='parslfest2020-files/wijewickarama-sciflow.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4TlmJrx70">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Dan Laney, ExaWorks: ECP Workflows Project. <a href='parslfest2020-files/laney-exaworks.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/HcczFAbTD5c">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Doug Thain, WorkQueue + Parsl. <a href='parslfest2020-files/thain-workqueue.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/60P5ckUm8FE">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Ioan Petri, Orchestrating knowledge in industrial edge environments. <a href='parslfest2020-files/thain-workqueue'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/NNmLdHXq6gg">video</a>.</li>
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      10:30 am - <a
	 href=https://icebreaker.video/events/sV6sA46xnlikezZYRxMk>Virtual Meet and Greet </a> - Hosted by Anna Woodard<br />
      We'll do several rounds of short one-on-one conversations until
      you’ve met a bunch of amazing people. To participate, you'll need a Gmail
      account. Click <a href=https://icebreaker.video/events/sV6sA46xnlikezZYRxMk>here</a>
      to test your login!<br /><br />

      11:00 am - Session 2 (Chair: Kyle Chard)
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        <li>Matthew Madany, Solving Hierarchical Neuroscience Probems with Parsl. <a href='parslfest2020-files/madany_microscopy.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/5rcwCVAIbHI">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Ian Foster,	Targeting SARS-CoV-2 with AI- and HPC-enabled Lead Generation. <a href='parslfest2020-files/foster-covid.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/uuEhs0vKfUU">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Tom Glanzman, Advancing the Search for Dark Energy with Parsl and HPC. <a href='parslfest2020-files/glanzman-desc.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/CStnyn7rz1Y">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Logan Ward,	Colmena: Steering Computational Campaigns with Parsl and AI. <a href='parslfest2020-files/ward-colmena.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnh7yMDneR0">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Jean-Baptiste Reynier, Developing a parallelized pipeline to analyze immune infiltration in cancer. <a href='parslfest2020-files/jb-genomics.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/fgKM0aZu0Us">video</a>.</li>
      </ul>

      12:00 - Break (stretch your legs, or stop by our <a href='https://gather.town/app/9yEo30dEPHXRioKu/parslfest'>Gather Town</a>)<br /><br />
      
      12:15 - Tutorials
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        <li>Ben Clifford, Dependencies beyond the DAG - <a href="https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/Parsl/parsl-tutorial/master?filepath=ParslFest2020/parslfest-2020-advanced-dependencies.ipynb">Jupyter notebook</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/V1HMQ2kGaMg">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Zhuozhao Li/Tim Shaffer, Fine-grain management of resources
		with WorkQueue - <a href="https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/Parsl/parsl-tutorial/master?filepath=ParslFest2020/parslfest-2020-wqex-autolabeling.ipynb">Jupyter notebook</a>. <a href='parslfest2020-files/shaffer-workqueue.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/8TjasPT9GHY">video</a></li>
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      1:15 - Office Hours (stop by to chat with the Parsl team)

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      <h4>Wednesday, October 7, 1 pm - 5 pm CDT (18:00 - 22:00 UTC)</h4>
     
      1:00 pm - Session 3 (Chair: Ben Clifford)
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          <li>Adam Stephens, Managing execution of Dakota evaluations with Parsl. <a href='parslfest2020-files/stephens-dakota.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/G1zN5Z1L35s">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Kunkun Tang, Uncertainty Quantification with Parsl in Composite Material Modeling.  <a href='parslfest2020-files/tang-ceesd.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/PFQIWW-RTe4">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Ravi Madduri, Using Parsl in creating MaPPeRTrac.  <a href='parslfest2020-files/madduri-mappertrac.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/M4WJfGWwCAQ">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Rajitha Udawalpola/Chandi Witharana, Automated mapping of Arctic permafrost tundra using sub-meter resolution satellite imagery.  <a href='parslfest2020-files/udawalpola-permafrost.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/YfaCFKn5GQs">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Aarthi Koripelly, Extracting Scientific Information from Free Text Articles.  <a href='parslfest2020-files/koripelly-literature.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/OcoUtcuYk88">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Ben Glick, Parsl as a Gateway for Research Computing at a Liberal Arts College.  <a href='parslfest2020-files/glick-landc.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/4_dsWX_xyK8">video</a>.</li>
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      2:15 pm - Break (stretch your legs, or stop by our <a href='https://gather.town/app/9yEo30dEPHXRioKu/parslfest'>Gather Town</a>)<br /><br />

      2:30 pm - Session 4 (Chair: Anna Woodard)
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        <li>Kelly Rowland, Prototyping a Cromwell Parsl Backend.  <a href='parslfest2020-files/rowland-jgi.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href='https://jaws-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/'>JAWS docs</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR-asCLvye4">Video</a>.</li>
	<li>Glen Hocky, Calculating molecular free energies using Parsl.  <a href='parslfest2020-files/hocky-molecular.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/1vX6SrfdiJ8">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Engin Arslan, Streamlining computation and communication for distributed science workflows.  <a href='parslfest2020-files/arslan-communication.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/AZrlmEe1-jA">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Lincoln Bryant, Jupyter on the Open Science Grid.  <a href='parslfest2020-files/bryant-osg.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/SXKvLWEza6w">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Rafael Ferreira da Silva, WorkflowsRI: Building an Infrastructure for Enabling Systematic Development and Research of Scientific Workflow Management Systems.  <a href='parslfest2020-files/rafael-workflowsri.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/q0keb-b5IHE">video</a>.</li>
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      3:30 pm - Break (stretch your legs, or stop by our <a href='https://gather.town/app/9yEo30dEPHXRioKu/parslfest'>Gather Town</a>)<br /><br />

      3:45 - Tutorials
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        <li>Alvaro Vidal Torreira, Building modular Parsl workflows in Parallel Works. <a href='parslfest2020-files/torreira-modular.pdf'>slides</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/WNhzLBV94go">video</a>.</li>
	<li>Yadu Babuji, Plug your execution system into Parsl (with example showing how to add Balsam as an executor). <a href="https://youtu.be/vERhKmYAzA8">video.</a></li>
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      4:45 pm - Closing <br /><br />

	5:00 - Office Hours (stop by to chat with the Parsl team)

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      <h2>Logistics</h2>

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      <b>Zoom:</b>  Please register and we will send the zoom link.
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      Contact us at <a href='mailto:parsl@googlegroups.com'>parsl@googlegroups.com</a>.
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      <h3>ParslFest 2019</h3>
      <p>The first Parsl community meeting brought together 50 researchers, developers, and cyberinfrastructure experts for a 
      two-day meeting that included presentations and discussions on the first day and tutorials, advanced topics, 
      and helpdesk sessions on the second day.</p>
      
      <p>The <a href='parslfest2019.html'>ParslFest 2019 page</a> includes the agenda and all presentations from ParslFest 2019.</p>

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