Welcome to PPoPP'06

ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on
Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

March 29-31, 2006, Manhattan, New York City, NY
(co-located with CGO'06)

Important Information for Participants:

The conference venue is at the Schapiro Center at Columbia University. Maps are available at the links, and a printer friendly map of campus is available here.
Travel directions to the conference venue are available here. These include travel directions from the airport, and links to subway maps.
Registration will be on site at the Schapiro Center.

Keynote address information

On Wednesday, March 29, Guy L. Steele Jr, Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, will be presenting the joint CGO/PPoPP Keynote Address. His talk is entitled Parallel Programming and Code Selection in Fortress.

On Thursday, March 30, at 8:30am, Raymie Stata, Chief Architect for Search & Marketplace, Yahoo!, Inc. will be presenting the PPoPP keynote entitled Parallel Programming in Modern Web Search Engines.

Additional conference information

The ACM SIGPLAN 2006 Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming will be held in New York City, NY, March 29-31, 2006. The goal of the PPoPP Symposia is to provide a forum for papers on the principles and foundations of parallel programming, tools and techniques for parallel programming, and experiences in using parallel programming to solve applications problems.

PPoPP'06 will be co-located with CGO'06 at Columbia University in Manhattan, NYC. Hotel information is now available.

Please check the call for papers for detailed information on subjects of interest and on submission procedure, including electronic submission. Proceedings will be published by ACM Press. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign the ACM copyright form. Instructions for preparing papers for the proceedings will be emailed to the authors of accepted papers.

Important Dates:

Abstract and title submission: September 16, 2005, 11:59pm EDT.
Abstracts should be approximately 400 words long, and contain enough information to allow referees to be assigned before the full paper is submitted.
Full paper submission: September 30, 2005, 11:59pm EDT
Response Period: November 1-3, 2005
Notification of acceptance: December 2, 2005

These are hard deadlines.

Submission information:

Papers should not exceed 10 pages in standard ACM two-column format, and must be submitted electronically using the submission form available at the submission page. Submissions must be in PDF format -- if this is not possible contact the Program Chair. Proceedings will be published by ACM Press. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign the ACM copyright form. Instructions for preparing papers for the proceedings will be emailed to the authors of accepted papers. Please contact the Program Chair for additional information about submission procedures.

General Chair:
Josep Torrellas
University of Illinois

Program Chair:
Siddhartha Chatterjee
IBM Research