Dear OGF colleagues, Please take note of the XSEDE 2014 submission deadlines discussed below. Visualization Showcase abstracts, Birds of a Feather proposals and poster abstracts—including student poster abstracts—are due on April 21. Additionally, student travel grant applications are due the same day. In addition, please note that OGF has a Call for Session Proposals open at the OGF web site at the link below. While there is not an explicit deadline, we are under practical limitations to finalize our room requests and would for this reason appreciate receiving your working group and community group session requests as soon as possible. At this time, we anticipate receiving requests from the GLUE, JSDL, BES and other related working groups and expect to receive session proposals from groups in the Security and Data areas also, such as FedSec, Identity Delegation, CAOPS, etc. Other session requests and BOFs are welcome. Please send them in via the link for this purpose in the page linked below. http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-41 Alan SIll, VP of Standards Open Grid Forum [XSede header]<https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward?emailId=51425&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xsede.org%2F&emailAddress=alan.sill@ttu.edu&factsReferenceId=> XSEDE14 Submission Deadlines Registration opens April 21 Visualization Showcase abstracts, Birds of a Feather proposals and poster abstracts—including student poster abstracts—are due on April 21. Additionally, student travel grant applications are due the same day. Details about these opportunities are available in the Call for Participation posted at https://conferences.xsede.org/xsede14/call-for-participation<https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward?emailId=51425&url=https%3A%2F%2Fconferences.xsede.org%2Fxsede14%2Fcall-for-participation&emailAddress=alan.sill@ttu.edu&factsReferenceId=>. Farnam Jahanian, assistant director for the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation, will be the keynote speaker at the conference. XSEDE14 registration, schedule and other information can all be found at xsede.org/xsede14<https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward?emailId=51425&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xsede.org%2Fweb%2Fconference%2Fxsede14&emailAddress=alan.sill@ttu.edu&factsReferenceId=>. The XSEDE14 date for open registration will be April 21. XSEDE14 will take place in Atlanta from July 13-18, 2014 at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis and will showcase the discoveries, innovations, challenges and achievements of those who utilize and support XSEDE resources and services, as well as other digital resources and services throughout the world. The theme of XSEDE14 is “Engaging Communities,” to engage both traditional users of digital resources and people who have not traditionally used digital resources but would benefit from their usage. About XSEDE The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world. It is a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data, and expertise. XSEDE accelerates scientific discovery by enhancing the productivity of researchers, engineers, and scholars by deepening and extending the use of XSEDE’s ecosystem of advanced digital services and by advancing and sustaining the XSEDE advanced digital infrastructure. XSEDE is a five-year, $121-million project and is supported by the National Science Foundation. ### For more information contact: Travis Tate Media Communications Coordinator XSEDE tbtate@illinois.edu<mailto:tbtate@illinois.edu> 217-377-2205 [XSede Footer]<https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward?emailId=51425&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xsede.org%2F&emailAddress=alan.sill@ttu.edu&factsReferenceId=> [https://illinois.edu/emailer/opened.gif?emailId=51425&emailAddress=alan.sill@ttu.edu&factsReferenceId=]