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

1 Welcome Session

2 Thomas Lippert

3 Sauro Succi

11:00 Coffee break

4 Enrique Rico Ortega

5 Michele Parrinello

Lunch break

6 Sergio Hoyas (AI for fluids)

7 ESR 10 - Christian Schneider (lattice QCD)

8 ESR 1 - Shiting Long (HPC)

Coffee break

9 Ellinor Haglund (biology)

10 ESR 14 - Sachin Shivakumar (QC)

11 ESR 4 - Gabriele Pierini (lattice QCD)

Tuesday 29 September

12 Jacob Finkerath

13 Patrick Gallinari

11:00 Coffee break

14 Chiara Calascibetta (optimal control of fluid properties )

15 ESR 2 - Mario Papace (HPC, linear algebra )

16 ESR 6 - Asmita Datta (QC)

13:00 Lunch break

17 Antonio Evangelista (lattice QCD)

18 ESR 9 - Samuele Pedrielli (QC)

19 ESR 5 - Francesco Fossela (physics/turbulent flows)

16:30 Coffee break

Poster Session

Wednesday 30 September

20 Sabrina Maniscalco (QC)

21 Tom Beck

11:00 Coffee break

22 Alessandro Gabbana

23 Simone Bacchio

Excursions: Excursion

Thursday 1 October

24 Gunnar Bali

25 Michael Klein

11:00 Coffee break

26 Paolo Carloni (biology)

27 ESR 13 - Elisa Bellantoni (HPC)

28 ESR 11 - Rocco Barac (QC)

13:00 Lunch break

29 Michele Buzzicotti (generative models for turbulence)

30 ESR 3 - Ryan Moussa (lattice QCD)

31 ESR 6 - Lukas Mullender (QC)

16:30 Coffee break

32 Luka Pavesic (quantum simulation)

33 ESR 12 - Andre Freitas (lattice QCD)

34 Lipi Thukral (comp. biology)

Friday 2 October

35 Jacob Schroder

36 TBD (QC)

11:00 Coffee Break

37 Philipp Hauke (QC)

38 ESR 15 - Marta Devodier (biology)

39 ESR 11 - Christian Kummer (QC)

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