Timezone: WEST - Western European Summer Time = GMT+1
Venue: Main University Building, Colégio do Espírito Santo
Date: 26 May 2025
Opening Ceremony and Cellebration of the HPC Chair 3rd Anniversary
Lecturers Room / Sala dos Docentes
10:00 - 11:20: Program to be announced
Transforming Knowledge Through Advanced Computing
Theater 131
11:30-11:40: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Session: Advanced Computing
11:40-12:05: (Keynote talk) - Pedro Vieira Alberto, University of Coimbra, Portugal. "Overview of HPC technologies and related fields"
12:10-12:35: (Keynote talk) - Mark Asch, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France. "Digital Twins, AI and the Future of Science"
12:40-13:05: (Keynote talk) - Yasser Omar, University of Lisbon & Portuguese Quantum Institute, Lisbon, Portugal. "The Revolution of Quantum Technologies "
13:10 - 14:30 Lunch Break
Session: HPC/AI Processing & Analytics of Massive Volumes of Data
14:30-14:55: (Keynote talk) - Marco Puccini, CINECA, Bologna, Italy. "Beyond Silos: Building the HPC-Cloud Interoperability Bridge"
15:00-15:20: (Invited talk) - Vasco Barroso, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. "ALICE data acquisition and processing in LHC Run 3 and Run 4"
15:25-15:45: (Invited talk) - Julián Garrido, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA - CSIC), Granada, Spain. "Advanced computing for reproducibility of astronomy Big Data science with a showcase of AMiGA and the SKA Science prototype"
15:50 - 16:10 Coffee Break
Session: Advanced Computing in the Industrial/Enterprise Environment
16:10-16:35: (Keynote talk) - Gerardo Ares, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Madrid, Spain.
16:40-17:00: (Invited talk) - Rui Semide, N10GLED, Évora, Portugal. "It's not all good news: Quantum computing's threats to cybersecurity... and solutions"
17:05-17:25: (Invited talk) - Pedro Lopes, FastCompChem, Covilhã, Portugal. "Fusion of Quantum Chemistry, AI, and HPC: A New Dawn in Computational Toxicology and Cheminformatics"
17:30 - 17:40 Short break & Grab the coffee
Discussion & Meeting Closing
17:40 - 18:20 "Advanced Computing and the Solution of Complex Scientific Problems", Roman Chertovskih (chair), Miguel Avillez, Alfredo Carvalho, António Canto, Domingos Barbosa, Estelina Lora da Silva.
18:20 - 18:45 (Invited talk) Paulo Quaresma, University of Évora & HPC Chair, "Meeting Summary and Closing Remarks"
18:45 Farewell
