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Day 1 | Monday

14.09.2026
Lecture Hall 1
Lecture Hall 2
Lecture Hall 3
Foyer | Catering Area
PC² | Off-Site
08:30
09:30
PC² | Off-Site
Supercomputer | Guided Tour 1

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10:00
11:00
Foyer | Catering Area
Registration
with Coffee & Snacks
11:00
11:20
Lecture Hall 1
Opening Session
Portrait photo of Matthias Müller, broadly smiling man with dark hair wearing a dark blazer and blue tie, light background with a partial circular logo visible.

Matthias Müller

Portrait photo of Christian Plessl, smiling man with short dark hair wearing a light grey blazer, white shirt and dark navy dotted tie, neutral grey background.

Christian Plessl

Plenary Session
11:20
12:20
Lecture Hall 1
Fast Algorithms on Fast Computers

Thorsten Koch

Plenary Session Keynote ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
12:20
13:20

Lunch Break
• Chicken piccata with tomato sauce, served with rosemary potatoes & grilled vegetables • 
• Bell peppers & zucchini stuffed with couscous in tomato sauce (vegan) •

13:20
13:50
Lecture Hall 1
Accelerating Atomistic Simulations via Ultra-Fast Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials

Matthias Rupp

Invited ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
Lecture Hall 2
Fewer Bytes, Not Faster Flops: Low Precision in Sparse Linear Algebra

Pratik Nayak

Invited ‧ Low- & Mixed-Precision Computing
Lecture Hall 3
Is the Paris Agreement still Possible? Simulating Policy Packages in a Complex Climate-Economy Environment

Francesco Lamperti

Invited ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
13:50
15:10
Lecture Hall 1
ML and Monte Carlo Methods for Understanding the Thermodynamic Properties of CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cell Materials [13:50 - 14:10]

Vasileios Karanikolas

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
Simulation of Hydrogen Diffusion in Fe and Fe-Based Alloys in Presence of Defects [14:10 - 14:30]

Daria Smirnova

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
Decoding pH-Driven Phase Transition of Lipid Nanoparticles [14:30 - 14:50]

Marius Trollmann

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
Performance Portable Electrostatics for Exascale Atomistic Simulations [14:50 - 15:10]

Rodrigo Bartolomeu

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
Lecture Hall 2
A Taxonomy of Application Properties for Mixed-Precision Autotuning [13:50 - 14:15]

Gulcin Gedik

Contributed ‧ Low- & Mixed-Precision Computing
Adaptive Spectral Block Floating Point for Discontinuous Galerkin Simulations [14:15 - 14:40]

Shivam Sundriyal

Contributed ‧ Low- & Mixed-Precision Computing
Multigrid with Linear Storage Complexity [14:40 - 15:05]

Daniel Bauer

Contributed ‧ Low- & Mixed-Precision Computing
Lecture Hall 3
Scaling Deep Reinforcement Learning for Farm Decision-Making in Agent-Based Model AgriPoliS [13:50 - 14:15]

Franziska Appel

Contributed ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
A State-Expanded Network Formulation for Multiple-Depot Integrated Vehicle and Crew Scheduling [14:15 - 14:40]

Jonas Maximilian Brenker

Contributed ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
Using Small LLMs to Translate Natural Language Problem Formulations into Optimization Models: A Graph-Based Approach [14:40 - 15:05]

Hermann Gerzen

Contributed ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
15:10
15:40

Coffee Break

15:40
16:40
Lecture Hall 1
Genomics meets Artificial Intelligence towards Applications to Precision Medicine

Andrea Cavalli

Plenary Session Keynote ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
16:40
18:40
Foyer | Catering Area
Poster Session

All accepted contributions

Plenary Session with Food & Beverages
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Day 2 | Tuesday

15.09.2026
Lecture Hall 1
Lecture Hall 2
Lecture Hall 3
09:00
09:30
Lecture Hall 1
The Alexandria Database of Material Properties

Miguel Marques

Invited ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
Lecture Hall 2
Performance Portability across Modern Hardware Architectures of a Discontinuous Galerkin Shallow Water Model

Vadym Aizinger

Invited ‧ Low- & Mixed-Precision Computing
Lecture Hall 3
Between First Principles and Data-Driven Modeling: Causal Machine Learning for Digital Twins of Data Centers

Oliver Müller

Invited ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
09:30
10:50
Lecture Hall 1
High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Computation of Electron Repulsion Integrals on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays [09:30 - 09:50]

Xin Wu

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
HPC-Optimized All-Electron GW Calculation for Large-Scale Materials Simulations [09:50 - 10:10]

Ronaldo Rodrigues Pela

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
IRBranch.AI: A Latent Matching Model for IR Spectral-to-Structure Prediction on Small Organic Molecules [10:10 - 10:30]

Anirudh Krishnadas

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
Resolving Multiple Slow Processes with ISOKANN: The DPP-IV/Endomorphin-1 Encounter Complex [10:30 - 10:50]

Anushka Pahuja

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
Lecture Hall 2
Assessing Opportunities for Mixed-Precision Computing in High-Order Navier--Stokes Simulations with BoSSS [09:30 - 09:55]

Vahid Badrkhani

Contributed ‧ Low- & Mixed-Precision Computing
Reproducible GPU-Based Hyperparameter Optimization and Neural Architecture Search for pre-miRNA Classification [09:55 - 10:20]

Manssor Ghaderinia

Contributed ‧ Low- & Mixed-Precision Computing
Quantifying Accuracy and Efficiency Trade-offs of Reduced-Precision CNN Inference on FPGA Accelerators [10:20 - 10:45]

Thalles Menezes Moreira

Contributed ‧ Low- & Mixed-Precision Computing
Lecture Hall 3
Neural Generators for Multi-Agent Evolutionary Negotiation: HPC-Enabled Simulation of Learning-Guided Decision Search [09:30 - 09:55]

Andreas Fink

Contributed ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
DAYA: Data-Aware Agentic AI Architecture for Decision-Oriented Analytics on HPC Systems [09:55 - 10:20]

Michael Bidollahkhani

Contributed ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
Knowledge-Guided HPC Decision Intelligence: Executable Governance for Trustworthy AI-Driven Decision Workflows [10:20 - 10:45]

Aasish Sharma

Contributed ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
10:50
11:00

Break

11:00
12:15
Lecture Hall 1
NHR for Users

Sadaf Ehtesabi

Portrait photo of Matthias Müller, broadly smiling man with dark hair wearing a dark blazer and blue tie, light background with a partial circular logo visible.

Matthias Müller

Anita Ragyanski

Robert Schade

Plenary Session
12:15
12:45
Lecture Hall 1
Group Picture
Plenary Session
12:45
14:00

Lunch Break

• Fruity pineapple & coconut curry with vegetables and rice (vegan) •
• Chicken breast strips served separately •
• Stir-fried tofu with Asian vegetables, teriyaki sauce & rice (vegan) •

14:00
15:00
Lecture Hall 1
Do We Really Need All These Bits? Reliable and Sustainable Computing Beyond Double Precision

Roman Iakymchuk

Plenary Session Keynote ‧ Low- & Mixed-Precision Computing
15:00
15:30

Coffee Break

15:30
17:00
Lecture Hall 1
Panel Discussion | Data Sovereignty and Resilience

Johannes Fournier

Portarait of Martin Frank, smiling man with short brown hair wearing a black blazer and open-collar white shirt, blurred background.

Martin Frank

Sonja Schimmler

Lea Hansjürgen

Plenary Session
17:00
17:15
Lecture Hall 1
Closing Remarks
Plenary Session
18:30
19:30
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