Conferences 

 PAPERS PRESENTED AND SESSIONS CHAIRED AT PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL MEETINGS

( Note: The details of the conferences are given in this section along with the number of papers presented; other details on these papers appear in Section 5.2 and Section 5.5.).

Annual Computer Society of India Conferences, India.

• New Delhi, 1973 (Presented a paper)
• Ahemadabad, 1975 (Presented a paper)
• Pune, 1977 (Presented 2 papers)
• Calcutta, 1978 (Presented 2 papers)
• Banglore, 1979 (Presented a paper)
• Bombay, 1980 (Presented 3 papers)
• New Delhi, 1987 (Presented a paper)

Annual APICS (Atlantic Provinces Council the Sciences) Annual Conferences, Canada.

• Antigonish, N.S., 1983 (Presented a paper)
• Fredericton, N.B., 1984 (Presented 2 papers)
• Halifax, N.S., 1985 (Presented 3 papers)
• St. John's, Nfld., 1986 (Presented a paper)
• Wolfville, N.S., 1987 (Presented a paper)
• Halifax, N.S., 1991 (Presented a paper)

Canadian VLSI Conferences

• Edmonton, CCVLSI'84, 1984 (Presented one paper)

Canadian Supercomputing/High Performance Computer Systems Symposiums

• Edmonton, 1988 (Presented an invited talk)
• Toronto, 1989 (Presented 3 papers)
• Chair for a session on 'Supercomputing Applications', Supercomputing Symposium, Toronto, June 1989. Participation sponsored by Supercomputing Center, U.N.B.
• Calgary, 1993, Session Chair for 'Parallel Tools and Techniques' (Presented a paper).
• Ottawa, 1996, Session Chair for a session on ‘Data and Computation Distribution'
• (Presented 2 papers); also Program Committee Member.
• Workshop on 'Parallel Processing', Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, Feb. 7-9, 1990, Invited Participant and Lecturer.

Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, India.

• Gave talks on 'Parallel Computing" in two workshops on 'High Performance Computing', March 1-4, 1990 and August 17-19, 1990.
• Invited to inaugurate the exhibition on ‘Transputer-based Products, System Software, Application Packages and Innovative Developments' organized as a part of the First Indian Transputer User Group Conference held at C-DAC, Pune, India, Dec. 13-15, 1993.
• Chaired the panel discussion on ‘Transputers: Capabilities and Limitations' wherein seven panelists from industries and research laboratories participated.

International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS) sponsored conferences.

• Tenth World Congress on 'System Simulation and Scientific Computation', Montreal (Presented a paper).
• 'Computer Methods for Partial Differential Equations', Lehigh University, PA, June 1984 (Presented a paper).
• Twelfth World Congress on 'Scientific Computation', Sorbonne, Paris, France, July 1988.
• Organizer and Chairman of two technical sessions on "Monte Carlo Simulation with Supercomputers". (Presented 2 papers.)

IEEE International Conferences

• Supercomputing '91, Albuquerque, NM, USA, Nov. 1991. Invited Speaker and Panelist in the workshop on "Parallel Algorithms for Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations".
• IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'96), Washington, D.C. June 2-6, 1996 (presented a paper).
• 1997 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, St. John's, NF, Canada, May 25-28, 1997, pp. 301-304, May 1997. (Presented a paper and Session Chair for a session on Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) Circuits).

International Supercomputing Institute, FL, U.S.A., Conferences on Supercomputing.

• Boston, MA, May 1988 (Presented a paper).

Annual International Conferences on Parallel Processing, sponsored by IEEE and ACM, held at St. Charles, IL, U.S.A.

• August 1987: Presented a paper.
• August 1989: Presented a paper.

SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), U.S.A., Conferences.

• SIAM Conference on 'Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing', Norfolk, VA, Nov. 1985 (Presented two papers).
• SIAM Conference on 'Applied Geometry', Albany, NY, July 1987 (Presented a paper).

Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computer (HPCS)

• 10th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing (HPCS'96), Ottawa, June 5-7, 1996. Presented two papers, Program Committee Member, and Session Chairman for session on ‘Data and Computation Distribution 2', July 7, 1996.
• 11th Annual Symposium at Winnipeg, Manitoba, July 10-12, 1997, Advisory Chair and Program Committee Member. Chaired the plenary session on ‘Integration of High performance Computing and Communications and Web Technologies' by Dr. Geoffrey Fox (Syracuse University); participated in the workshop on ‘Canadian Computational Collaboratory: Computational Collaboration in Canada' as an Executive Member of HPCnet and member of the Committee for Canadian Computational Collaboratory.
• 12th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS'98), Edmonton, AL, May 20-22, 1998, Program Committee Member. Reviewed four papers. 

Others

• International Symposium on 'Electronic Devices, Circuits and Systems' (ISELDECS-87), sponsored by IEEE, Computer Society of India and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, Dec. 1987 (presented 2 papers).
• "Transputer Applications 91" - The third international conference and exhibition at Glasgow, UK, August 28-30, 1991 (Presented a paper and session Chairman for "Remote Sensing I" session).
• "Parallel Computing and Transputer Applications '92 (PACTA'92), Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 21-25, 1992. Program Committee Member, (Presented a paper).
• Indo-US Workshop on ‘Parallel and Distributed Signal and Image Integration Problems' sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, USA and C-DAC, Pune, India, Dec. 16-18, 1993 (presented one paper).
• International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'97), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 29-July3, 1997. Chaired two sessions on ‘Software Environments, Tools, Languages and Related Systems'.

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

• Organized (Program Chair) the Annual APICS (Atlantic Provinces Council on Sciences) Computer Science Conference at Fredericton, N.B., Nov. 3-4, 1989. The Conference attracted 95 persons from the Atlantic Provinces - the largest number of participants since the Conference began. The Conference was very well appreciated by the participants. 
• Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune, India.
• Organized two workshops on 'High Performance Computing', March 1-4, 1990 and August 17-19, 1990.
• Organized (General Chair) the Annual "Supercomputing Symposium '91" at Fredericton, N.B., June 3-5, 1991. The technical program consisted of invited talks and papers from Canada, U.S.A., UK, and Turkey. With our efforts the symposium assumed an international character for the first time, and attracted over 120 participants. The symposium exhibition included exhibits by Alliant Computer Systems Corp., Convex Computer Corporation, Cray Research Canada, FPS Computing, Fujitsu Canada, HNSX Supercomputers Inc., IBM Canada and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
• Advisory Chair of the 11th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS'97), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, July 10-12, 1997.
• Program Co-Chair, HPCS'2002, June 17-19, 2002.