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SURVEY NOW CLOSED.
TANGO@SC25: Survey to Assess Interest and Eligibility (US candidates)

Please respond by August 31, 2025. Successful applicants will be notified by September 15, 2025.

Survey feedback will help us plan an event surrounding the Supercomputing Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, November 14-21 (Nov. 14-15 is the pre-conference workshop, and SC runs Nov. 16-21).

Applicants must meet the following criteria:

1. Applications are welcome from US research computing, data and cybersecurity (RCDC) professionals who actively work with high-performance computing clusters (HPC), support people who use HPC, in academic, industrial or government lab settings or conduct outreach to K-20 communities in underserved regions. Students who work as research computing facilitators or who attend military academies may apply. Applications from minority-serving institutions, EPSCoR states, and demographics that are under-represented in RCDC careers will be favored. Funds pending, we will have limited support for a number of delegates' US flight, lodging, registration and per diem (we will reimburse with receipts, within reason). The conference has donated a limited number of full tech program registrations (workshops and tutorials included - the full meal deal!).

Our NSF award was approved and we carried over a sum from last year's event.

Those who opt to attend the axe-throwing event on Friday night are required to sign an indemnification form and provide proof of insurance. An alternative option is the architectural tour of the St. Louis Arch.
1.US applicants: Are you planning to attend SC25 and are supported by your institution to do so (they will grant time off if not financial support)?
2.US applicants: If you answered "yes," are you able to pay for your own expenses, and apply for a reimbursement from NSF funds by Texas A&M University High Performance Research Computing after the conference (noting that short staffing and winter break may delay reimbursements)?
3.US applicants: If you answered "No" would your institution approve time off for you to attend SC25 and a pre-conference workshop (Nov. 14-15) if you had NSF support in the form of a post-conference reimbursement for your registration (if you don't receive a donated registration), flight, lodging and per diem expenses?
4.What is your jacket size?
5.Please let us know who you are: Name, institution, snail-mail and email addresses. Example: Jane Doe, University of Happiness, jdoe@happy.edu.
6.BUDGET:

Please provide an itemized budget of anticipated expenses. Include lodging (GSA rate if possible), travel (flight or mileage comparable to flight cost), per diem (US GSA rate for St. Louis - meals that are not provided by the workshop or conference), and registration (tech program with workshops and tutorials - if one is not provided by TANGO@SC25). This will help us determine how many can be supported from limited funds.

If you are granted a full registration (workshops and tutorials), and participant support, you are expected to participate in the full conference and pre-conference workshop. All who accept participant support are required to pay-it-forward by blogging for STEM-Trek, or by hosting a workshop at home (and blogging about it for STEM-Trek). Blogs are required if you are to be considered for support in the future. First-timers and those who have blogged in the past are favored.

Blogs about the activity will be accepted within three months after the conference.


See: FY 2025 Per Diem Rates for St. Louis, Missouri | GSA http://www.gsa.gov/travel