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

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

Monday 28 September

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome Session

09:30 → 10:15 Thomas Lippert

10:15 → 11:00 Sauro Succi

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Enrique Rico Ortega

12:15 → 13:00 Michele Parrinello

13:00 → 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 → 15:30 Sergio Hoyas (AI for fluids)

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 Ellinor Haglund (biology)

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 Jacob Finkerath

10:15 → 11:00 Patrick Gallinari

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Chiara Calascibetta (optimal control of fluid properties )

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 Antonio Evangelista (lattice QCD)

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 Sabrina Maniscalco (QC)

10:15 → 11:00 Tom Beck

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Alessandro Gabbana

12:15 → 13:00 Simone Bacchio

15:00 → 19:00 Excursions: Excursion

Thursday 1 October

09:30 → 10:15 Gunnar Bali

10:15 → 11:00 Michael Klein

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Paolo Carloni (biology)

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

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

13:00 → 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 → 15:30 Michele Buzzicotti (generative models for turbulence)

15:30 → 16:00 ESR 3 - Ryan Moussa (lattice QCD)

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

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 17:30 Luka Pavesic (quantum simulation)

17:30 → 18:00 ESR 12 - Andre Freitas (lattice QCD)

18:00 → 18:30 Lipi Thukral (comp. biology)

Friday 2 October

09:30 → 10:15 Jacob Schroder

10:15 → 11:00 TBD (QC)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:00 Philipp Hauke (QC)

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

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

13:00 → 13:30 CLOSING