Guidelines for ACM Student Research Competition Posters

If you do not fulfill the below requirements, you are still invited to submit your application to the PASC Posters program.

Submit your ACM Poster here. 

The PASC Conference series is an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of knowledge in scientific computing and computational science with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, workflows, application challenges, and novel techniques in the context of scientific usage of high performance computing.

The Conference is co-sponsored by the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS – a unit of ETH Zurich) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The conference is managed by CSCS. The event will be hosted at University of Bern & PHBern, in Bern, Switzerland.

The ACM Student Research Competition seeks submissions from students who wish to showcase their research in the form of a poster presentation at the conference.

The competition is sponsored by ACM with some travel financial support generously offered by SIGHPC.

The ACM Student Research Competition begins with a 2-page extended abstract prepared using the standard ACM conference template. Submissions will be reviewed, and up to 20 authors will be invited to present their work in a poster session at the conference. From these, judges will select the top six posters. The authors of these six projects will then be invited to give a 10-minute presentation as part of the conference program. Finally, during the closing ceremony, the top three projects will be recognized based on the final round of evaluations.

SIGHPC has generously agreed to help support travel. Students traveling from within Europe are eligible for grants of up to $800, while those traveling from other continents may receive up to $1,600; PASC26 will cover the corresponding registration fees for the selected students. Furthermore, post-event ACM will offer a medal and monetary award to the winners: $500, $300, and $200, respectively, for the first, second and third place students in the graduate and undergraduate categories. The first-placed winners will then have the possibility to compete in the competition Grand Finals, which take place toward the end of the program year.

Poster submissions should describe topical research in HPC related to domain science, applied mathematics, computer science or software engineering. The scientific domains represented at the PASC Conference are typically organized around the following areas:

  • Chemistry and Materials (incl. ceramics, metals, polymers)
  • Climate, Weather, and Earth Sciences (incl. solid earth dynamics)
  • Applied Social Sciences and Humanities (incl. behavioral, economic, legal, political, business, philosophy, languages, the arts, ethics in computing such as environmental impact of HPC, mitigation of biases in algorithms, machine learning, etc.)
  • Engineering (incl. computational fluid dynamics, computational mechanics, computational engineering, materials, acoustics, signal processing, etc.)
  • Life Sciences (incl. biophysics, computational biomechanics, genomics, bioinformatics, systems biology, neuroscience, and computational biology)
  • Physics (incl. astrophysics, cosmology, plasma physics, and quantum information sciences)
  • Computational Methods and Applied Mathematics

ACM Student Research Competition PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS

  1. Participants must be currently enrolled in a university or college and have an active ACM student membership
  2. Team projects will be accepted from Undergraduate students. One person should be designated by the team to attend the conference and make the oral presentation. Should the designated presenter win first, second or third place in competition only they will receive the medal and monetary award. Only individual research is accepted from Graduate (Masters or PhD program) students; group research projects will not be considered. If an individual is part of a group research project and wants to participate in an SRC, they can only present their part of the research. Only they will receive the medal and monetary award (should they win). Note that the enrolled status at the moment of the application determines the competition level.
  3. Qualifying research areas are those covered by the conference; see above for details.
  4. Students may only participate in one SRC per program year (April 1- March 31). Students that have applied to an SRC, but have not been accepted, may respond to other SRC calls for participation during the program year. However, a student who is accepted to multiple SRCs must withdraw their submission from all but one.

Further details on participating in the SRC can be found at https://src.acm.org/participate.

If you do not fulfill the above requirements, you are still invited to submit your application to the PASC Posters program.

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS

Poster submissions should be made through the PASC26 online submission portal, and will be reviewed by domain experts from the PASC26 ACM Student Research Competition Program Committee chaired by Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratories, USA).

POSTER REQUIREMENTS

We will host poster presentations on site. Poster authors whose submissions are accepted for presentation at the conference, should thus plan to travel to Switzerland and present their work on-site.

Please carry your physical poster to be hung up on poster boards (poster boards are 145 cm high x 115 cm wide).

31 January 2026: Deadline for submissions
27 March 2026: Decision notifications
18 May 2026: Deadline for submission of poster image (PDF)

Deadlines correspond to anywhere on earth (‘AoE’ or ‘UTC-12’).

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION TERMS

Conference contributors whose submissions are accepted for presentation at the conference are expected to present their work on-site.

The PASC Conference reserves the right to remove contributions that are considered outside the scope of the conference at any time.