ICHEC Seminar 2008
Frontiers in Computational Science
ICHEC would like to extend its thanks to the speakers and attendees of this year's seminar, we hope you found it a worth while experience.
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The Royal Irish Academy is hosting the ICHEC Annual Seminar for 2008. It will take place on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th of October 2008 at Academy House, the home of the Academy. Attendance is by invitation only. If you would like to attend please contact ICHEC at this address with your request and contact details. The event will begin with registration and lunch in Academy House at 12:45 on Wednesday 29th, (travel information).
Royal Irish Academy |
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| 29th Oct. | Capability Computing | |
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| 12:45-13:40 | Registration & In House Lunch | |
| 13:40-13:55 | Prof. Jim Slevin, ICHEC Director | Opening remarks (download) |
| 13:55-14:40 | Prof. Peter Coveney, University College London | Preparing for the petascale: real science on up to tens of thousands of cores. |
| 14:40-15:00 | Prof. Luke Drury, e-INIS Principal Investigator | Capability Computing and Blue Gene (download) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Dr. Damien Thompson, Tyndall Institute | Better living through chemistry: harnessing molecular recognition in natural & synthetic systems (download) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Tea Break | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Dr. Jiri Vala, National University of Ireland, Maynooth | Quantum Revolution with Blue Gene |
| 16:30-17:00 | Dr. Turlough Downes, Dublin City University/Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies | New physics in molecular cloud turbulence |
| 17:00-17:30 | Prof. Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin | Molecular devices with a spin (download) |
| 18:00-20:00 | In House Wine Reception |
| 30th Oct. | ||
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| 09:00-09:15 | Morning Coffee | |
| 09:15-09:45 | Dr. Jean-Christophe Desplat, ICHEC Associate Director | The Irish national HPC service: beyond 2008... (download) |
| 09:45-10:30 | Dr. Kimmo Koski, Managing Director, Finnish IT Center for Science, CSC | Building the European High-Performance Computing Ecosystem (download) |
| 10:30-10:50 | Tea Break | |
| 10:50-11:35 | Dr. Kevin Stratford, EPCC | Large Simulations of Complex Fluids |
| 11:35-12:05 | Dr. Gemma Kinsella, TCD | Virtual Screening of Nuclear receptors (download) |
| 12:05-12:45 | In House Lunch | |
| 12:45-13:15 | Prof. John Simmie, NUI Galway | Energy; the key challenge facing Mankind (download) |
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Malcolm Byrne, HEA Dr. Damien Thompson, Tyndall Institute (download) Larry Hirst, Chairman of IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan, TD |
Official Launch of Blue Gene service |
| 13:45-14:15 | Dr. Patrick McGarry, NUI Galway | Simulating the active contractile behaviour of adherent cells |
| 14:15-14:45 | Mr. Neil Costigan, School of Computing, Dublin City University | Cryptographic research on ICHEC (download) |
The above is a draft agenda and is subject to change. Additional details about the guest speakers and the topics of their talks will be added in due course. Details of last year's seminar can be found here.
