<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>The CEDAR Science Steering Committee (CSSC) is soliciting
proposals for new Grand Challenge (GC) workshops to start at the 2018 CEDAR
meeting. </b></p><p class="MsoNormal">The GC program was first created in 2014 as a method to get the CEDAR
community to organize around large problems that required coordinated
collaboration over multiple years. The CSSC has decided that starting in 2018
the new GC workshops can be proposed for up to 3 years. GC workshops will be
granted 4-hours of workshop time and one 45 minute plenary tutorial slot at
each CEDAR meeting during their term. <span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">Proposals for GG workshops starting in 2018 will be <b>due on
February 23 </b>and can be submitted<a href="http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Special:CedarWorkshops&yr=2018"> here </a>(<a href="http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Special:CedarWorkshops&yr=2018">http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Special:CedarWorkshops&yr=2018</a>).
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<p class="MsoNormal">The CSSC will select at least one GC workshop in 2018 when
possible. Proposers will be notified of their selection before the March 16
deadline for ordinary CEDAR workshop proposals. Proposers of unsuccessful GC
workshop proposals will be given the opportunity of either transferring the
first year plan of their GC workshop proposal to the pool of ordinary workshop
proposals or of writing a revised proposal for an ordinary CEDAR workshop.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>GC workshop proposals must include the following
information:</b><span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        
</span></span>An explanation of why the proposed topic is
compelling and likely to have an impact on a large segment of the CEDAR
research community.<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        
</span></span>Information on how the proposed topic aligns
with the goals of the CEDAR strategic plan.<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        
</span></span>Well-defined objectives for the GC workshop.<span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        
</span></span>Justification for why the objectives require
coordinated workshops over multiple years and a plan for what the GC workshop
will accomplish in each year.<span></span></p>

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</span></span>Proposed topics for plenary tutorial talks for
each year.</p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in">Current
and past GC workshop topics can be found at <a href="http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/Workshop:Cedar_Grand_Challenge_workshop">http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/Workshop:Cedar_Grand_Challenge_workshop</a></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in"><span> The CEDAR scientific steering committee </span></p><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div>
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