April 9, 2020 — FortranCon 2020, an international conference targeting the development for and with the Fortran programming language, will hold its inaugural event on July 2 – 4 in Zurich, Switzerland. In the case that the COVID-19 pandemic persists, event planners are ready and will switch the format to a completely virtual conference for speakers and participants. The registration deadline for the conference is June 1, 2020.
In recent years Fortran has seen a series of new standards, improving the language in regards to object-oriented, parallel and general-purpose programming. This has spurred the development of several new projects written in and for Fortran, helping the Fortran programmers – in particular, the scientific community – to modernize their code and make it more maintainable.
FortranCon 2020 intends to bring together active Fortran project developers from all fields: library and tool developers as well as people using Fortran to develop scientific applications, to share their experience and exchange ideas.
Mr. Steve Lionel, convener of the ISO Fortran Standards group, retired Intel employee, and known as Doctor Fortran, will give the keynote speaker.
The FortranCon 2020 is organized in two full days with speaker presentations and a half-day workshop on a particular Fortran topic with lectures and hands-on sessions. Anyone interested is requested to register for the event, specifying if she/he would like to participate in the conference and/or the tutorial. The registration is free of charge.
Call-for-Abstract
A Call-for-Abstract is also open for people who would like to present at the conference. Presentations will fall under two tracks: selected presentations and junior presentations. The junior presentations are principally intended for junior researchers and will be directly decided on by the Local Committee while the selected presentations will be reviewed by a Scientific Committee.
FortranCon 2020 is sponsored by the UZH Graduate Campus via its GRC Grant, the NCCR MARVEL and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre.
For additional information on the event, visit https://tcevents.chem.uzh.ch/event/12/
Source: FortranCon 2020