Program Scientific Conference

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Day 1 | Monday

14.09.2026
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum | Foyer
Paderborn Center For Parallel Computing (PC²)
HNF | Lecture Hall 1
HNF | Lecture Hall 2
HNF | Lecture Hall 3
Catering Area
08:30
09:30
Paderborn Center For Parallel Computing (PC²)
Guided Tour of a Supercomputer | Tour 1

PC² Team

Online Registration | Free of Charge
10:00
11:00
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum | Foyer
Registration
11:00
11:20
HNF | 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
HNF | 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 and grilled vegetables •
• Bell peppers and zucchini stuffed with couscous in tomato sauce (vegan) •

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

Matthias Rupp

Invited ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
HNF | Lecture Hall 2
Is the Paris Agreement still possible? Simulating policy packages in a complex climate-economy environment

Francesco Lamberti

Invited ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
HNF | Lecture Hall 3
Fewer bytes, not faster flops: low precision in sparse linear algebra

Pratik Nayak

Invited ‧ Low and Mixed-Precision Computing
13:50
14:10
HNF | Lecture Hall 1
Machine learning and Monte Carlo methods for understanding the thermodynamic properties of CIGS thin-film solar cell materials

Vasileios Karanikolas

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
13:50
14:15
HNF | Lecture Hall 2
Scaling Deep Reinforcement Learning for Farm Decision-Making in Agent-Based Model AgriPoliS

Changxing Dong

Contributed ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
HNF | Lecture Hall 3
A Taxonomy of Application Properties for Mixed-Precision Autotuning

Gulcin Gedik

Contributed ‧ Low and Mixed-Precision Computing
14:10
14:40
HNF | Lecture Hall 1
Simulation of hydrogen diffusion in Fe and Fe-based alloys in presence of defects

Daria Smirnova

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
14:15
14:40
HNF | Lecture Hall 2
A state-expanded network formulation for Multiple-Depot Integrated Vehicle and Crew Scheduling

Jonas Maximilian Brenker

Contributed ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
HNF | Lecture Hall 3
Adaptive Spectral Block Floating Point for Discontinuous Galerkin Simulations

Shivam Sundriyal

Contributed ‧ Low and Mixed-Precision Computing
14:30
14:50
HNF | Lecture Hall 1
Decoding pH-Driven Phase Transition of Lipid Nanoparticles

Marius Trollmann

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
14:40
15:05
HNF | Lecture Hall 2
Using small LLMs to translate natural language problem formulations into optimization models: A Graph-based approach.

Hermann Gerzen

Contributed ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
HNF | Lecture Hall 3
Multigrid with Linear Storage Complexity

Daniel Bauer

Contributed ‧ Low and Mixed-Precision Computing
14:50
15:10
HNF | Lecture Hall 1
Performance Portable Electrostatics for Exascale Atomistic Simulations

Rodrigo Bartolomeu

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
15:10
15:40

Coffee Break

15:40
16:40
HNF | 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
Catering Area
Poster Session

Plenary Session

with Food and Beverages Plenary Session
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Day 2 | Tuesday

15.09.2026
Location: TBA
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum | Foyer
HNF | Lecture Hall 1
HNF | Lecture Hall 2
HNF | Lecture Hall 3
Catering Area
HNF | Seminar Room 1
09:00
09:30
HNF | Lecture Hall 1
The Alexandria database of material properties

Miguel Marques

Invited ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
HNF | Lecture Hall 2
Between First Principles and Data-Driven Modeling: Causal Machine Learning for Digital Twins of Data Centers

Oliver Müller

Invited ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
HNF | Lecture Hall 3
Performance portability across modern hardware architectures of a Discontinuous Galerkin Shallow Water Model

Vadym Aizinger

Invited ‧ Low and Mixed-Precision Computing
09:30
09:55
HNF | Lecture Hall 2
Neural Generators for Multi-Agent Evolutionary Negotiation: HPC-Enabled Simulation of Learning-Guided Decision Search

Andreas Fink

Contributed ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
HNF | Lecture Hall 3
Assessing Opportunities for Mixed-Precision Computing in High-Order Navier--Stokes Simulations with BoSSS

Vahid Badrkhani

Contributed ‧ Low and Mixed-Precision Computing
09:30
09:50
HNF | Lecture Hall 1
High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Computation of Electron Repulsion Integrals on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

Xin Wu

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
09:50
10:10
HNF | Lecture Hall 1
HPC-optimized all-electron GW calculation for large-scale materials simulations

Ronaldo Rodrigues Pela

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
09:55
10:20
HNF | Lecture Hall 2
DAYA: Data-Aware Agentic AI Architecture for Decision-Oriented Analytics on HPC Systems

Michael Bidollahkhani

Contributed ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
HNF | Lecture Hall 3
Reproducible GPU-Based Hyperparameter Optimization and Neural Architecture Search for pre-miRNA Classification

Jens Allmer

Contributed ‧ Low and Mixed-Precision Computing
10:10
10:30
HNF | Lecture Hall 1
IRBranch.AI: A Latent Matching Model for IR Spectral-to-Structure Prediction on Small Organic Molecules

Anirudh Krishnadas

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
10:20
10:45
HNF | Lecture Hall 2
Knowledge-Guided HPC Decision Intelligence: Executable Governance for Trustworthy AI-Driven Decision Workflows

Aasish Sharma

Contributed ‧ HPC-Driven Decision Science
HNF | Lecture Hall 3
Quantifying Accuracy and Efficiency Trade-offs of Reduced-Precision CNN Inference on FPGA Accelerators

Thalles Menezes Moreira

Contributed ‧ Low and Mixed-Precision Computing
10:30
10:50
HNF | Lecture Hall 1
Resolving Multiple Slow Processes with ISOKANN: The DPP-IV/Endomorphin-1 Encounter Complex

Anushka Pahuja

Contributed ‧ Advances in Atomistic Simulations
11:00
12:15
HNF | Lecture Hall 1
NHR for Users

Anita Ragyanski

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

Plenary Session
12:15
12:45
Location: TBA
Group Picture
Plenary Session
12:45
13:45

Lunch Break

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

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

Roman Iakymchuk

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

Coffee Break

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

Johannes Fournier

Sadeeb Simon Ottenburger

Martin Frank

Sonja Schimmler

Armin Himmelrath

Plenary Session
17:00
17:15
HNF | Lecture Hall 1
Closing Remarks
Plenary Session
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