Call for Nominations – Upcoming Edition
The PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC is annually presented to a female scientist who makes an outstanding contribution to and impact on HPC in Europe and the world, and serves as a role model for women who are at the start of their scientific careers. Details are provided in the Terms of References for the Award.
Important dates – How to apply
- The call for nominations has not opened yet.
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Nominations have to be submitted through the PRACE Peer Review Portal.
Eligibility
The eligibility criteria are
- Researchers of any nationality can be nominated
- Eligible candidates must have 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD (excluding parental leave, completion of PhD must be understood as the certified date of successful PhD defence).
- The winner of this award must be a female scientist working in academia or industry who is currently working in Europe or has been working in Europe during the past three years.
Self-nominations are allowed.
Review criteria
The Prize Committee will give the award to the individual best fulfilling the overall vision of the award. More specifically, the following criteria will be used:
- Impact in computational science at a global level (high)
- Impact in High performance computing at a global level (high)
- Role model for women who are starting their careers in HPC (medium)
The Prize Committee will determine how these criteria will be weighted across fields, and no feedback will be provided to individual applications. A motivation and short paragraph will be provided to the winner.
Prize Committee
For the year 2024, the committee members are
- Edouard Audit, Chair of the Prize Committee and Vice-Chair of the PRACE Council Science Section
- George Biros
- Jack Dongarra
- Vincent Galinier, Chair of the PRACE Council Industry Section
- Norbert Meyer, Chair of the PRACE Council HPC Centres Section
- Nathalie Reuter
Award
The award will consist of a prize sum of € 1 000, as well as a certificate and an engraved trophy. The winner of the award commit to give a plenary talk at the PRACE Intersection Seminar or at another high-level HPC event in Europe (travel and accommodation costs covered by PRACE).
Background and History
The PRACE Ada Lovelace Award was launched in 2016 and has been awarded annually since then. The awardee was announced at the annual PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference (PRACEdays) or at another high-level European HPC event.
The award is named after the Countess of Lovelace, a British mathematician who lived in the 19th century and among else worked with Charles Babbage on the Machine they called the Analytical Engine – one of the first precursors of computers. Many historians regard Ada Lovelace’s contribution to this mechanical calculator as the very first algorithm – and herself as the first person to be rightly called a programmer.
Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) was founded in 2009 by Suw Charman-Anderson, and is now held every year on the second Tuesday of October.
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