28 September 2026 to 2 October 2026
Sun Hall Hotel
Asia/Nicosia timezone

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  1. Constantia Alexandrou (University of Cyprus, and The Cyprus Institute)
    28/09/2026, 09:00
  2. Thomas Lippert
    28/09/2026, 09:30
  3. Jiali Gao
    28/09/2026, 10:15
  4. Sabrina Maniscalco
    28/09/2026, 11:30
  5. Ellinor Haglund
    28/09/2026, 12:15
  6. Rayan Moussa (University of Wuppertal)
    28/09/2026, 15:00
    ESR talk
    ESR

    Algebraic multigrid methods are some of the most efficient methods used in the solution of large scale problems which often appear in engineering and physics theory and application. These methods rely entirely on the complementarity between a sequence of error relaxation processes each happening on a given scale within the hierarchy of scales present in the problem to be solved. The precise...

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  7. Christian Schneider (University of Cyprus)
    28/09/2026, 15:30
    ESR talk
    ESR

    Isospin breaking, arising from electromagnetic interactions and the difference between the up- and down-quark masses, leads to small but phenomenologically important mass differences between hadrons. As lattice QCD calculations reach percent-level precision, these effects need to be included systematically.

    In this work, we study isospin-breaking mass splittings within spin-1/2 and spin-3/2...

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  8. Christian Kummer
    28/09/2026, 16:00
    ESR talk
    ESR

    Nucleon Mellin moments of parton distribution functions and generalized parton distributions are computed up to the fourth order in lattice QCD. The computation is performed using one ensemble of twisted mass fermions at the physical pion mass point. We employ boosted frames to access the higher-order Mellin moments of generalized parton distributions. We also extract the generalized...

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  9. Song Xie (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
    28/09/2026, 17:00
    Invited talk

    Computer simulations can provide unique atomistic insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying protein activation. Here, I will focus on two neurobiologically relevant systems: the WAVE regulatory complex (WRC) and the adenosine A2A receptor (A2AR), a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR). Molecular dynamics simulations of the WRC identified common mechanistic features of autism-associated...

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  10. Mr Sachin Shivakumar (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)
    28/09/2026, 17:30
    ESR talk
    ESR

    Molecular dynamics simulations of protein–ligand systems are central to computer-aided drug discovery, but their reliability rests on the underlying force field. Metalloproteins are a particularly hard case: classical force fields describe metal coordination poorly, and reliable parameters are often unavailable. Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) molecular dynamics treats such sites...

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  11. Gabriele Pierini (The Cyprus Institute, TU Berlin)
    28/09/2026, 18:00
    ESR talk
    ESR

    Studying hadrons can be challenging due to the non-perturbative nature of QCD. Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs), and their generalization Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs), are objects that carry information about how quarks and gluons are distributed in hadrons such as protons and neutrons. The computation of GPDs from both theory and experiments is challenging, therefore extracting...

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  12. Jacob Friedrich Finkenrath (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))
    29/09/2026, 09:30
    Invited talk

    I will review some of the recent machine learning applications in the field of lattice QCD. Based on that, I will discuss there possible application within application of lattice field theory simulations.

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  13. Patrick Gallinari
    29/09/2026, 10:15
  14. Chiara Calascibetta (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INPHYNI & Inria, Nice, France)
    29/09/2026, 11:30
    Invited talk

    The dynamics of non-spherical particles in turbulence are governed by the interplay between inertia and orientation-dependent hydrodynamic forces. We investigate rigid fibers dynamics by bridging two asymptotic descriptions: the small-size limit described by Jeffery’s equation, and the finite-length limit captured by slender-body theory. This framework enables systematic variation of aspect...

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  15. Mario Papace (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
    29/09/2026, 12:00
    ESR talk
    ESR

    Disconnected quark-loop diagrams contribute to many key hadronic observables, from flavor-singlet spectroscopy to nucleon structure and the muon anomalous magnetic moment, but require traces of the inverse Dirac operator, which can only be estimated stochastically. Probing methods reduce the variance of such estimates by exploiting the exponential decay of the quark propagator: noise vectors...

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  16. Ms Asmita Datta (University of Padova)
    29/09/2026, 12:30
    ESR talk
    ESR

    Shor’s factorization algorithm which factors integers in time polynomial to their bit-length, is a major milestone in the race to demonstratable quantum advantage because of its exponential speedup over currently available classical algorithms. It also provides an ideal testbed for benchmarking classical simulations of quantum algorithms and is particularly interesting as a stress test for...

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  17. Lipi Thukral
    29/09/2026, 15:00
    Invited talk
  18. Samuele Pedrielli (Technische Universität Berlin, Università degli Studi di Padova)
    29/09/2026, 15:30
    ESR talk
    ESR

    Variational quantum algorithms operate in a challenging statistical regime: objective functions and gradients must be inferred from a finite number of noisy quantum measurements. In this talk I present uncertainty-aware and bias-aware statistical learning methods for optimizing parametrized quantum circuits, with a focus on the Variational Quantum Eigensolver.

    This framework strengthens the...

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  19. Francesco Fossella (Telecom-Paris & University of Rome "Tor Vergata")
    29/09/2026, 16:00
    ESR talk
    ESR

    "In chaotic systems, limited knowledge of initial conditions causes simulated dynamics to rapidly diverge from reality, severely undermining predictability and state estimation. However, integrating real-world observations, even if spatiotemporally sparse and noisy, effectively mitigates this divergence. The functional and optimal use of such imperfect data constitutes the core of Data...

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  20. Henning Leemhuis (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    Efficient solutions of large sparse linear systems arising in lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) are essential for modern numerical simulations. In this work, we investigate the use of a direct solver, based on ScaLAPACK, as the coarsest-level solver within the DDalphaAMG software package. Instead of performing an iterative solve on the coarsest grid of the multigrid hierarchy, we employ a...

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  21. Christos Iona (University of Cyprus & The Cyprus Institute)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    We determine the nucleon axial and tensor charges at the continuum limit by analyzing four $N_f=2+1+1$ twisted mass fermion ensembles, with all quark masses tuned to approximately their physical values. We include both connected and disconnected contributions to determine the isovector and isoscalar charges and their flavor decomposition. Systematic uncertainties from excited-state...

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  22. Georgios Pasias (University of Cyprus)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    Surface tension driven flows in microchannels underpin numerous microfluidic technologies, including biomedical diagnostics, chemical processing and lab on a chip systems. High-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations provide detailed predictions of the transient evolution of the liquid–gas interface and associated flow field, but their computational cost limits large-scale...

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  23. Sofie Martins (University of Graz)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    We present HiRep v2, an open-source software suite for high-performance lattice field theory simulations with dynamical Wilson fermions in higher representations of $SU(N_g)$ gauge groups. This new version fully supports graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration, optimizing both gauge configuration generation and measurements for NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. HiRep v2 integrates improved gauge and...

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  24. Bolun Hu
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    We present an ongoing lattice-QCD study of higher Mellin moments of pion and kaon parton distribution functions using the gradient-flow method. Building on previous work, we use twisted-mass ensembles with lighter pion masses and plan calculations at four lattice spacings. We investigate the flow-time dependence, continuum extrapolation, excited-state effects, and other systematic...

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  25. Syed Muhammad Ali Hassan (The Cyprus Institute)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) prepares candidate solutions to combinatorial optimization problems by alternating between operations that encode the objective function and a mixing operation that shift probability between candidate solutions. Gradient-based training of such circuits requires estimating how the measured cost changes when a circuit angle is varied. We...

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  26. Ivana Boljat (Croatian Geological survey)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    Karst aquifers are complex systems characterised by nonlinear recharge responses and heterogeneous groundwater flow. This study investigates whether unsupervised machine learning can independently distinguish deep karst from shallow karst (fluviokarst) in the northern Croatian Dinaric region.
    A multiparametric dataset comprising 5-year records of spring discharge, water temperature and...

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  27. Jose Miguel Jimenez Merchan (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    We study trace estimation for disconnected quark loop contributions in lattice QCD, focusing on single-time-slice traces such as $ \operatorname{Tr}\left[\Gamma_5(t)D^{-1}(t,t)\right]$. We build on the standard use of hopping-parameter expansions (HPE) in trace estimation, where the truncated term has bounded graph range and can be evaluated exactly using distance-(d) probing.

    We first...

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  28. Priyajit Jana (University of Cyprus, The Cyprus Institute)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    We present the results of the nucleon helicity moments and generalized form factors in the isovector and isoscalar channels computed within lattice QCD. We analyzed four ensembles with $N_f=2+1+1$ twisted mass clover-improved fermions with the mass of the quarks tuned to their physical mass. The four ensembles have lattice spacings approximately $a=0.05 \,\text{fm}, 0.06 \,\text{fm}, 0.07...

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  29. Srijit Paul (University of Cyprus)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    The origin and flavor structure of the nucleon mass are fundamental questions in strong interaction physics. The nucleon sigma terms quantify the response of the nucleon mass to variations of the quark masses and provide direct access to its scalar matrix elements. We present a lattice QCD determination of the light, strange, and charm sigma terms using twisted-mass fermions at the physical...

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  30. Yan Li
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    We determine the momentum fraction and angular momentum carried by quarks and gluons in the proton in lattice QCD. We use four ensembles simulated with up, down, strange and charm quarks with their masses tuned to their physical values.
    These ensembles have similar physical volume and different lattice spacings allowing us to take the continuum limit directly at the physical pion mass...

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  31. Andreas Konstantinou (University of Cyprus & The Cyprus Institute)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    In this poster we present the study of Λ-hyperon to proton transition in Lattice QCD. We use the computed form factors from LQCD, and apply it to a number of problems. For example, we compute the decay rate of the electron semi-leptonic decay, and by combining it with the experimental data we obtain $V_{us}$. Furthermore, we use this decay channel to search for possible physics beyond the...

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  32. Anastasios Zeniou (University of Cyprus)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    We present an inverse-design method that determines the chemical heterogeneity profile of a surface required to transport a droplet along a prescribed path. Droplet dynamics are simulated by employing a reduced-order model that reduces the lubrication equation to a system of ODEs for the Fourier harmonics of the contact line, and integrating this stiff system with an implicit adaptive...

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  33. Mr Naveen Kumar Subramanian (The Cyprus Institute)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    Abstract

    Wetting dynamics plays a central role in applications such as coating processes, microfluidics, and green energy technologies. Despite extensive theoretical work, several aspects of the influence of droplet size on wetting dynamics remain unclear, particularly how nanoscale dynamics evolve toward macroscopic behaviour as the system size increases.

    In this contribution, we...

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  34. Ferenc Pittler (The Cyprus Institute)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    The $\Delta(1232)$ resonance is the lowest-lying baryon excitation and provides an important testing ground for our understanding of hadron structure. In this talk, we will present recent lattice-QCD results on the resonance at the physical pion mass.

    Using gauge ensembles with $N_f=2+1+1$ dynamical quark flavors, we investigate both the finite-volume spectrum of the resonance and its...

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  35. Mr Stylianos Gregoriou (The Cyprus Institute)
    29/09/2026, 17:00

    We present a practical approach for implementing the overlap Dirac operator in Lattice QCD, combining the diagonal Kenney-Laub (KL) rational iterates for approximating the matrix sign function with the Brillouin operator as overlap kernel. The partial fraction decomposition of the KL iterates enables multi-shift conjugate gradient solvers, with all weights and shifts given by closed-form...

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  36. Sofiene Jerbi (Freie Universität Berlin - Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin)
    30/09/2026, 09:30
    Invited talk

    One of the core challenges of research in quantum computing is to understand whether quantum advantages can be found for problems of practical interest. In the field of quantum machine learning, we know for a few years now that proof-of-concept exponential advantages can be established in learning tasks derived from classically hard problems such as factoring or computing discrete logarithms....

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  37. MICHELE PARRINELLO (Fondazione istituto italiano di tecnologia)
    30/09/2026, 10:15
    Invited talk

    Molecular Dynamics simulations are a valuable tool for investigating a wide variety of phenomena at the atomistic scale. However, it is this very high resolution that limits the time scales accessible to such simulations. Typically, this limitation is overcome by deploying methods that require knowledge of the system's metastable states and an approximation of the reaction coordinate, referred...

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  38. Alessandro Gabbana (University of Ferrara / INFN Ferrara)
    30/09/2026, 11:30
    Invited talk

    The Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) has evolved into one of the most versatile computational frameworks for simulating complex fluids and multiscale flow phenomena. Its kinetic formulation naturally accommodates multiphase and multicomponent flows, thermal transport, fluid–structure interactions, porous media flows, and turbulence, while offering excellent scalability on modern high-performance...

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  39. Simone Bacchio
    30/09/2026, 12:15
  40. Gunnar Bali
    01/10/2026, 09:30
    Invited talk
  41. Sauro Succi (Italian Institute of Technology)
    01/10/2026, 10:15
    Invited talk

    In the recent years increasing attention has been directed towards the
    the development of quantum algorithm for classical physics, most
    notably fluid dynamics and other nonlinear transport phenomena.

    Solving fluid dynamics on quantum computers is a steep challenge
    on top of a challenge because, besides the notorious hurdles of
    decoherence and loss of entanglement, the physics of...

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  42. Ilaria Siloi
    01/10/2026, 11:30
    Invited talk
  43. Andreas Demou (The Cyprus Institute)
    01/10/2026, 12:00
    Invited talk

    Mechanistic interpretability aspires to reverse engineer AI models by breaking down black-box weights and activations into human-understandable features and circuits. A leading approach for mechanistic interpretability is sparse dictionary learning, which trains an encoder to map activations into a sparse code and a decoder to reconstruct them. The corresponding architecture is called...

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  44. Elisa Bellantoni (The Cyprus Institute, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Τélécom Paris)
    01/10/2026, 12:30
    ESR talk
    ESR

    The study of wetting is a captivating problem laying at the intersection between physics, chemistry and engineering. The multi-scale nature of this phenomenon makes it challenging to model, calling for advanced numerical techniques. We present an immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann (IB-LB) method [[1]] to tackle this task, improving on existing work [[2]] in scope and applicability, in order...

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  45. Prof. Michele Buzzicotti (University of Rome Tor Vergata and INFN)
    01/10/2026, 14:30
    Invited talk

    Synthesizing fully developed three-dimensional turbulent velocity fields remains a long-standing problem in fluid mechanics and an open challenge for generative modeling. This difficulty arises from the combination of extreme dimensionality, multiscale fluctuations, strong intermittency, and the need to satisfy exact physical constraints, including incompressibility and prescribed mass and...

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  46. Rocco Barač (University of Padova & University of Cyprus)
    01/10/2026, 15:00
    ESR talk
    ESR

    Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems arise naturally in spin glass models like the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Hamiltonian, where strongly frustrated interactions create rugged energy landscapes. In this talk, I explore how the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG), the famous tensor network method used as a ground-state search algorithm, can be adapted as a heuristic...

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  47. Lukas Müllender (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
    01/10/2026, 15:30
    ESR talk
    ESR

    Hybrid machine learning/molecular mechanical (ML/MM) simulations are increasingly explored as an alternative to computationally expensive quantum mechanical (QM) methods, offering near first-principles accuracy at substantially reduced computational cost. Neural network potentials (NNPs) can reproduce QM-level energies and forces efficiently, yet their integration into established molecular...

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  48. Luka Pavesic (University of Padova)
    01/10/2026, 16:30
    Invited talk

    Metastable states appear across many areas of physics, from condensed matter to cosmology. Their relaxation is described by the semi-classical 'critical bubble theory', developed more than 50 years ago. Despite its broad applicability, the quantum version of the theory has little experimental support, and understanding the relaxation of metastable states in quantum many-body systems remains a...

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  49. Antonio Evangelista
    01/10/2026, 17:00
    Invited talk
  50. André Freitas (University of Rome "Tor Vergata" & Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
    01/10/2026, 17:30
    ESR talk
    ESR

    Buoyancy-driven turbulence arises across a wide range of natural and technological systems, from inertial confinement fusion to stellar explosions. Direct numerical simulation of all dynamically active scales is often prohibitively expensive, motivating large-eddy simulation and the development of accurate subgrid closures. We extend recent work on a solver-in-the-loop framework in which the...

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  53. Jacob Schroder (University of New Mexico)
    02/10/2026, 09:30
    Invited talk

    Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is a popular and effective solver for sparse linear systems arising from discretized partial differential equations (PDEs). The optimality and efficiency of AMG rests on the complementary relationship between relaxation (e.g., Gauss-Seidel) and interpolation, which when effective, results in optimal O($n$) scaling in the number of degrees-of-freedom $n$. Relaxation...

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  54. Paolo Carloni (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)
    02/10/2026, 10:15
    Invited talk

    We will discuss some recent applications of our massively parallel QM/MM code MiMiC, developed within a consortium of european university. We will focus on transporters which exploit proton gradients across the membrane to transport organic molecules.
    We will close with a perspective of using data science approaches to develop potentials and calculate accurate free energies using QM/MM MD data.

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  55. Enrique Rico Ortega (CERN)
    02/10/2026, 10:45
    Invited talk

    Real-time, non-perturbative dynamics of gauge theories, from string formation and fragmentation to thermalization and jet production, lie largely beyond the reach of standard Euclidean Monte Carlo methods. Hamiltonian formulations of lattice gauge theories, combined with tools from quantum information science, offer a complementary route that provides direct access to time evolution, avoids...

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  56. Marta Devodier
    02/10/2026, 12:00
    ESR talk
    ESR

    High-performance computing has turned atomistic Molecular Dynamics (MD) into a practical tool for resolving biomolecular processes with atomic resolution. For protein-ligand systems, these simulations expose the interactions governing binding and unbinding, a key issue in drug design. Drug efficacy, however, depends not only on binding affinity but also on residence time (RT), the kinetic...

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  57. Shiting Long
    02/10/2026, 12:30
    ESR talk
    ESR

    As the slowdown of Dennard scaling has shifted performance gains toward exploiting parallelism on increasingly heterogeneous many-core architectures, task-based programming models have emerged as a promising approach for managing complex workloads. Despite their growing adoption, however, understanding how runtime behavior translates into application performance remains a significant...

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  58. Jacob Schroder
  59. Sergio Hoyas
  60. Michele Parrinello
  61. Christian Schneider
    ESR talk
  62. ESR talk
  63. Michele Buzzicotti
  64. Alessandro Gabbana
  65. Jacob Finkerath
  66. Chiara Calascibetta
  67. Paolo Carloni
    Invited talk
  68. Sauro Succi
  69. Ilaria Siloi (University of Padova)
    Invited talk

    Tensor networks offer efficient representations of high-dimensional objects and are widely used in quantum many-body physics, optimization, and machine learning. This seminar explores how tensor-network techniques constructions can be applied to a range of combinatorial problems. First, it presents an implementation of Schnorr’s algorithm for RSA integer factorization, using tensor networks to...

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  70. Jens Eisert
  71. Enrique Rico Ortega
  72. Luka Pavesic
  73. Song Xie