ICiS workshops are conducted by members of the scientific community, and are intended to draw on scientific talent from a variety of organizations to focus on specific problems in collaborative partnerships. Any qualified individual is eligible to submit a proposal, and any qualified individual is eligible to register until registration reaches capacity.

The selection criteria include intellectual significance, timeliness, experimental or observational significance that ties to computation, and availability of outstanding participants. Other criteria concern the broader impact of the activity, such as the potential for promoting training of students and post-docs, for broadening the scope of participation to include groups that are underrepresented in computational science, and for communicating and disseminating results to the wider community of scientists and non-experts.

Submission Guidelines

Proposals for high-quality/impact project workshops may begin with a brief pre-proposal to communicate the idea to the steering committee -- a title, 2-3 paragraphs explaining the idea, and some suggestions for organizers and key program participants is sufficient. Members of the steering committee will review these pre-proposals, encourage the development of promising ones into full proposals, and guide coordination of proposals in related areas. Full proposals may also be submitted from the outset.

A fully developed proposal to ICiS would contain the following:

1. A clearly motivated scientific case that explains the background to the broader scientific audience, the specifics for the specialists on the steering committee, and, why you think the time is ripe for progress. The role of computation or computational technology will play in the science must be identified clearly.
2. Commitments from at least two people to be program or workshop coordinators. A program will not succeed if there is not at least one well-organized coordinator in residence all the time. The best programs have two coordinators in residence all the time.
3. A sense that the community agrees this is a good idea. For example: Is the program description broad enough or are some vital subfields missing? Also, please include a preliminary headcount of participants, and a justification as to how long a program or workshop you feel is needed.

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