This year the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) is launching a new event as part of its flagship conference, IPDPS. The PhD Forum will be an opportunity for graduate students to present a poster describing their proposed and/or partially completed dissertation work to a broad audience of both academic and industrial researchers and practitioners in parallel and distributed processing and related overlapping areas, such as networking, autonomic computing, pervasive computing, reconfigurable computing, and high-performance computing architecture and compilers.

A 2-page abstract is due by Jan 31st 2008. Additional details are available at

http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2008/2008_phdforum.html

Please encourage your doctoral students to submit to the Ph.D. Forum. Several top submissions will receive travel awards sponsored by TCPP.