AQTIVATE Conference

28 Sept 2026, 09:00 → 2 Oct 2026, 19:00 Asia/Nicosia

Sun Hall Hotel

The AQTIVATE conference brings together experts in high performance computing, scalable algorithms and machine learning approaches, and quantum computing for physics, engineering and biology.

The conference is organized under the joint doctoral project "Advanced computing, QuanTum algorIthms and data-driVen Approaches for science, Technology and Engineering (AQTIVATE)". See the AQTIVATE project website for more details.

 Keynote speakers will cover the following topics:

• Modeling and algorithms towards exascale
• Machine learning approaches
• Quantum algorithms and tensor networks
• Applications from lattice QCD, computational fluid dynamics, and computational biology

 

Confirmed Speakers

Simone Bacchio (The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus)
Gunnar Bali (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
Tom Beck (National Center for Computational Sciences, USA)
Michele Buzzicotti (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Chiara Calascibetta (Centre INRIA d’Université Côte d’Azur, France)
Paolo Carloni (Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen)
Jens Eisert (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 
Antonio Evangelista (University of Cyprus)
Jacob Finkenrath (University of Wuppertal, Germany)
Alessandro Gabbana (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA and University of Ferrara, Italy)
Patrick Gallinari (Sorbonne University, France)
Ellinor Haglund (University of Hawaii, USA) 
Philipp Hauke (University of Trento, Italy) 
Michael Klein (Temple University, Philadelphia, USA) 
Thomas Lippert (Director of Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany) 
Sabrina Maniscalco (Algorithmiq Ltd, Finland) 
Enrique Rico Ortega (CERN-TH and Ikerbasque and UPV/EHU)
Michele Parrinello (IIT, Italy)
Luka Pavešić (University of Padova, Italy)
Jacob Schroder (University of New Mexico, USA)
Sauro Succi (IIT, Italy) Sergio Hoyas (Universitat Politècnica de València) 
Lipi Thukral (Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India)

 

Funded by the European Union: The project AQTIVATE has received funding from the EU's research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks action and GA No. 101072344

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Monday 28 September

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome Session

09:30 → 10:15 Future HPC and Quantum Hardware

Speaker: Thomas Lippert

10:15 → 11:00 TBD

Speaker: Jiali Gao

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Quantum Information

Speaker: Sabrina Maniscalco

12:15 → 13:00 Biology

Speaker: Ellinor Haglund

13:00 → 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 → 15:30 AI for fluids

Speaker: Sergio Hoyas

15:30 → 16:00 ESR 10 - Christian Schneider (lattice QCD)

16:00 → 16:30 ESR 1 - Shiting Long (HPC)

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 17:30 TBD

Speaker: Song Xie

17:30 → 18:00 ESR 14 - Sachin Shivakumar (QC)

18:00 → 18:30 ESR 4 - Gabriele Pierini (lattice QCD)

Tuesday 29 September

09:30 → 10:15 Machine Learning and Lattice QCD

Speaker: Jacob Finkerath

10:15 → 11:00 Physics Aware Deep Learning

Speaker: Patrick Gallinari

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Optimal control of fluid properties

Speaker: Chiara Calascibetta

12:00 → 12:30 ESR 2 - Mario Papace (HPC, linear algebra )

12:30 → 13:00 ESR 6 - Asmita Datta (QC)

13:00 → 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 → 15:30 Comp. biology

Speaker: Lipi Thukral

15:30 → 16:00 ESR 9 - Samuele Pedrielli (QC)

16:00 → 16:30 ESR 5 - Francesco Fossela (physics/turbulent flows)

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 18:30 Poster Session

Wednesday 30 September

09:30 → 10:15 Quantum Information

Speaker: Jens Eisert

10:15 → 11:00 Classical and ab-initio Molecular Dynamics simulations

Speaker: Michele Parrinello

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Lattice Boltzmann Algorithms for complex fluids and complex flows

Speaker: Alessandro Gabbana

12:15 → 13:00 Physics HPC Lattice QCD

Speaker: Simone Bacchio

15:00 → 19:00 Excursions: Excursion

Thursday 1 October

09:30 → 10:15 Hadron Structure

Speaker: Gunnar Bali

10:15 → 11:00 Quantum algorithms for classical fluids

Speaker: Sauro Succi

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Quantum Computing

Speaker: Ilaria Siloi

12:00 → 12:30 ESR 13 - Elisa Bellantoni (CFD)

12:30 → 13:00 ESR 11 - Rocco Barac (QC)

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:00 Generative models for turbulence

Speaker: Michele Buzzicotti

15:00 → 15:30 ESR 3 - Ryan Moussa (lattice QCD)

15:30 → 16:00 ESR 6 - Lukas Mullender (QC)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:00 Quantum simulation

Speaker: Luka Pavesic

17:00 → 17:30 ESR 12 - Andre Freitas (lattice QCD)

17:30 → 18:00 Lattice QCD

Speaker: Antonio Evangelista

18:00 → 18:20 POSTER PRIZE 1

18:20 → 18:40 POSTER PRIZE 2

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner: Conference Dinner - TBA

Friday 2 October

09:30 → 10:15 Advances in Algebraic Multigrid Methods for PDEs

Speaker: Jacob Schroder

10:15 → 11:00 Quantum Information

Speaker: Enrique Rico Ortega

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:00 Paolo Carloni (biology)

12:00 → 12:30 ESR 15 - Marta Devodier (biology)

12:30 → 13:00 ESR 11 - Christian Kummer (QC)

13:00 → 13:30 CLOSING