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Outreach Committee

Committee Description

The outreach committee is responsible for arranging and promoting a variety of communications mechanisms for the Chapter. This includes promotion of workshops via the Chapter website, email, social media, and other communications outlets. The committee also sees volunteers to provide webinars on a variety of HPC education and training topics, posts to the Chapter blog, presentations at professional meetings, and short videos on training topics.

Committee Goals

  • Promote the chapter’s education goals through webinars, blog posts, and social media
  • Maintain communication channels through announcements of chapter events and activities
  • Solicit participation in webinars, blog additions, and other communication channels

Join the Committee

We welcome participation in committee activities in several ways. You can choose to volunteer to start one of the projects in the activities folder linked below. You can also join the committee to help oversee all of the outreach activities. To do either of these or just to get more information, please contact the committee chair.

Steven Gordon sgordon20[at]gmail.com
Weronika Filinger w.filinger[at]epcc.ed.ac.uk

Volunteer Opportunities

  1. Assemble a list of HPC and University Centers that provide HPC and computational science education and training materials and workshops Conduct a search of HPC centers and find links to their training materials and workshops.
  2. Update the list of training and education materials on the SIGHPC Education website. Check the current list for broken links, find updated links.
  3. Become an editor of the SIGHPC Education blog. Solicit and edit blog posts related to computational science education and training.
  4. Assist with website updates Help to update the website as we add new events, announcements, blog posts, and other materials.
  5. Create a blog post after interviewing a computational science professional. From a list of faculty and HPC professionals, conduct a short online interview focused on their teaching, training, or career and create a blog post to highlight that work.