Earlier this year we had teamed up with other Women in HPC members to organize a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session named “Super(computing)heroes” for ISC24. It was fun and insightful, and panelists and participants really enjoyed it – so we’re doing it again at SC24!

To put the idea behind these BoFs in a nutshell, we feature a panel of renowned women in HPC who share their experiences, challenges, and visions for the future of HPC. With that, we aim to inspire and empower, in particular, young women in HPC by providing role models, challenging stereotypes, and celebrating successes. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with these accomplished women in HPC, in an inclusive and supportive environment.

Artwork by Karina Pešatová (IT4Innovations)

In the planning for the second edition at the upcoming SC24, we went for a smaller panel than at ISC24, so that all superheroes (as we like call our panelists) will have more time to share their experiences. Nevertheless, we are happy to have assembled a more diverse panel than last time, with representatives from academia, research institutions and industry from five continents:

  • Doris Franke, MEGWARE (Germany)
  • Verónica Melesse Vergara, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA)
  • Lucia Drummond, Fluminense Federal University (Brazil)
  • Lara Timm, Centre for High Performance Computing and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (South Africa)
  • Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee Knoxville (USA)
  • Chia-Lee Yang, National Center for High Performance Computing (Taiwan)

We’re excited to finally head to Atlanta, GA, USA, in November to meet with our fellow organizers (some of whom we haven’t had the chance to meet in person yet) and kick off this session.

Will you be at SC24? Mark your calendar and join us at the BoF(Nov 20, 12:15pm – 1:15pm EST, B203)!

About Anna Lührs

Anna Lührs started to work at the JSC in 2008 as apprentice (Mathematisch-Technische Softwareentwicklerin MaTSE), and stayed part-time during her master programme. For her master thesis she developed an image segmentation algorithm for Polarized Light Imaging brain data in collaboration with the INM-1. Afterwards she joined the division HPC in Neuroscience, for which she meanwhile acted as deputy lead, first as research associate. In 2014 she shifted her focus towards project management, research coordination and science communication for the Human Brain Project, an EU-funded project with more than 100 project partners and a total duration of 10 years. She has recently joined the Office for (Inter-)national Coordination and Networking at the JSC.

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