About

ACME PI Meeting is the first face-2-face All-hands meeting for all ACME members. It will include invited talks from DOE ACME project managers, Executive Committee, as well as from each Group facilitated by Group Leaders. There will be Group sessions for inter-group discussions and cross-group sessions to facilitate communication exchange between groups. A dedicated session on Coupled Experiments, the ACME v1.0 definition and the coupled experiments timeline will be led by ACME Chief Scientist. The poster session will be included to invite discussion in 3 areas: Early Results, Problem/Solution -solving and Future Direction. Few posters will be chosen for the plenary oral presentations. The meeting will also hold plenary and well as hands-on tutorial sessions on:

• • software development, git and ACME repository provided by Software Engineering and Coupler Group
  • ACME workflow with detailed data flow, diagnostics, UV-CDAT and ESGF provided by Workflow Group
  • agile ACME software development techniques, including roadmaps, quarterly plans, working in JIRA, and submitting reports provided by Project Engineer

 Who Should Attend

Most of the ACME team members should plan to attend, note that there will not be a general BER modeling PI meeting this year.

This meeting is higher priority than the CESM Workshop for ACME project participants who are planning their schedules.Participants should plan to be at the meeting site by 8:00 am May 5 and stay through 5 pm on May 7.

Hotel

www.sheratontysonscorner.com

Hotel Reservations:  2015 ACME Pi Meeting. (OR copy and paste the following link into a web browser  https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/res?id=1409245395&key=CA6958A ). Hotel reservation deadline  (Renata: what's the date?)

Registration

By paying the registration fee, you will be automatically registered. The payment site:  http://app1.orau.org/Product.aspx?ProductId=272. Registration deadline (Renata: what's the date?)

Poster Submission

We invite ACME team members to submit a presentation abstract for the ACME PI meeting.  The following 3 topics are solicited: (R) Early science or computational results from the ACME project, (P) Problem-solving or issue topics to solicit ideas and feedback toward creative solutions (F) Future directions that ACME could consider (and why).  A few abstracts may be selected for short oral presentations in plenary session and/or within the Group break-outs, others will be presented in poster form.  A poster template with a quad-chart type format will be made available.  Abstract submissions should be submitted by April 17; notification of oral or poster will be made before April 22.  The abstract should include the category R, P or F and should identify a target Group or Experiment (Land, Workflow, Water-cycle etc.).  Abstract submission website information will follow.

Presentations

Please upload your presentation to /wiki/spaces/ECM/pages/19464220

Nomination for Awards

This meeting will initiate awards process to ACME team members in recognition of those who have gone “above and beyond” to contribute to the project. This includes demonstrated commitment, important scientific or technical ideas or advances, or noteworthy inter/intra-disciplinary teamwork. DOE BER management will present 2 awards twice per year.

We invite nominations from Group Leaders that should include a brief statement (paragraph) explaining your choice. Nominations for the May meeting should be sent to the executive committee before April 15, 2015.

Agenda

TBD

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