About

The ACME PI Meeting is the second face-2-face All-hands meeting for all ACME members. It will include invited talks from DOE ACME project managers, Executive Committee, each ACME Group facilitated by Group Leaders and well as invited tasks from the selected Task Leaders. There will be Group sessions for inter-group and cross-group discussions (so called speed dating) to facilitate communication exchange withing and between groups. A dedicated session on upcoming v1.0 Coupled Experiments, the ACME v2.0 new features and v2.0 experiment. The poster session will be included to promote discussion in 3 areas: Early Results, Problem-solving and Future Direction. A few posters may be selected for plenary oral presentations.

Dates

TBD

Tentative:

General Meeting:  Tuesday 8:00am to Thursday 5pm on 07 Jun 2016  - 09 Jun 2016 

Project Review : 10 Jun 2016  (ACME Council + GLs)

Hackathon:  10 Jun 2016

Alternative:

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 and should be considered a top-priority meeting.

Hotel

TBD

Washington DC area

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 is April 20.  

Registration

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Hotel

Hotel Hilton on Rockville Pike in Rockville reservation can be made through the link: http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/I/IADMRHF-JAP-20160606/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG, the cutoff date is  Monday, May 16th, 2016. 

A block of rooms have been reserved for June 6, 2016 - June 10, 2016. The special room rate of $206.00 per night will be available until May 16th or until the group block is sold-out, whichever comes first.

Note on hotel night of June 10th: Please reserve the hotel with the link above for the nights June 6-9, then contact Tracey (Tracey.Vieser@orau.org, Office: 865.574.2156, Mobile: 865.209.9631) or Marie (Marie.Asher@orau.org) with confirmation number and ask them to add one more night stay (June 10th) to your reservation.  

1750 Rockville Pike
Rockville, Maryland 20852-1699
USA
Tel: +1-301-468-1100
Fax: +1-301-468-0308 

Registration

The registration fee is $200.00. To register, go to http://app1.orau.org/Product.aspx?ProductId=

472 . The deadline is Tuesday, May 31, 2016. The registration includes breakfast and lunch Tuesday through Friday. 

Solicitation for Hackathon Ideas/Teams

Following an expressed by some interest in connecting with remote team members to code (or hack on) some lingering piece of code, an algorithm or to prototype or test an application or explore some new solutions, we reserved one day to the First ACME Hackathon.

We invite all ACME members to propose Ideas/Teams and Plans for the Hackathon that will take place on June 10th, 2016. Hackathon offers a time to brainstorm, innovate, develop, experiment and improve a code, it fosters creativity and allows one to connect and closely collaborate with otherwise remote team members.

Please submit a project to work on, an idea, list team members and deliverables on the Hackathon Ideas for 2016 All-Hands Meeting Page. The proposed idea should be relevant to ACME mission, ACME code or application development. It should be a relatively small project that at the end of the day should deliver a working piece of code or solution to a stated problem. Idea submission due date:  Tuesday, May 31, 2016. 

Poster Submission

We invite ACME team members to submit a presentation abstract for the ACME

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, or (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, the others will be presented in poster form.  A poster template with a quad-chart type format

is provided on submission page. Please go to Poster Abstract Submission for ACME 2016 All-Hands page for specific instructions on abstract submission. Due date: 2 weeks before the meeting - Monday, May 23rd, 2016.

Nomination for Awards

This meeting ACME will initiate continue an awards award process to ACME for 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 yearwill be presenting two awards in the plenary session. The award nominations are solicited for ACME team members; Group-Leads and Council members should be excluded. 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 22, 2015Due date: 2 weeks before the meeting - Monday, May 23rd, 2016.

Solicitation for Breakout Rooms

There are several possible openings (mainly in the eveninngs) for will be several openings for reservation of a breakout room for discussions in small groups, such as for Deep Dives. Please make your request in a comment section of the ACME PI Meeting Agendaon a Request Breakout Session for 2016 All-Hands Meeting Page. Anyone is invited to request a breakout meeting. Please give a short explanation of planned activities. Breakout Room requests are due by April 27May 31, 20152016.

Presentations

All oral presentations should be upload to to /wiki/spaces/ECM/pages/1946422063602772 and then linked to the Agenda.

Agenda

ACME PI Meeting AgendaAgenda - 2016 ACME All-Hands Meeting

Call in Number 

Will be provided.

Meeting Pages