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Emerging Ideas Proposals Only 13 May | Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (ACED)

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The ACED program seeks to harness computing to accelerate scientific discovery, while driving new computing advancements. The intent is to catalyze advancements that: (a) benefit scientific disciplines through computational technologies and (b) foster novel computing technologies that will enable advances beyond the specific use cases or domains originally targeted. The ACED program solicits proposals in two tracks:

• Track I: Emerging Ideas Proposals: supports speculative multidisciplinary projects that explore bold new research directions. The goal of these projects should be to obtain preliminary results, refine the overall research plan based on these results, and garner insights into whether these advances generalize beyond the targeted use case or domain. 
• Track II: Discovery Proposals: supports transformative interdisciplinary research that will significantly advance both computing and the scientific discipline(s) to be studied. Proposals should clearly identify the scientific problem(s) to be addressed; the specific computing techniques to be developed; and be supported by preliminary collaborations and/or results that demonstrate the potential of the proposed ideas. 

Teams should include two groups: researchers in computing, and researchers in the biological sciences, engineering, or mathematics and physical sciences.