Call for Posters Mardi Gras Conference 2008 January 30 - February 2, 2008 Baton Rouge, Louisiana http://mardigrasconference.org/posters.php The 15th Mardi Gras Conference, to be held between January 30th - February 2nd , 2008 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, invites researchers for submissions to its poster session. The poster session will offer an excellent opportunity for researchers to present their new, speculative or evolving ideas, which may not be ready for full publication, to a broader community. The forum will provide an informal and interactive setting where researchers can connect, create collaboration and stimulate alternative research questions. Student submissions are particularly welcomed. The theme of this year’s conference is: from lightweight mash-ups to lambda grids: understanding the spectrum of distributed computing requirements, applications, tools, infrastructures, interoperability, and the incremental adoption of key capabilities. For a complete list of topics of interest, please see the call for papers for Mardi Gras Conference 2008 at http://www.mardigrasconference.org/callforpapers.php Submission Please submit a 1-page proposal that clearly describes your research motivation, contribution, and the results you wish to present in your poster. All poster proposals will be peer-reviewed. (Submission of a poster proposal implies that at least one author will register for and attend the conference if the poster is accepted.) Poster proposals should be submitted to kosar(at)cct.lsu.edu. Publication The 1-page proposals associated with accepted proposals will be placed in the conference proceedings, which will be archived by ACM in their Digital Library after the conference. Important Dates Poster proposal deadline: December 15, 2007 Acceptance notification: December 31, 2007