2nd International BSC Doctoral Symposium 2015
Date: 05/May/2015 Time: 09:00 - 07/May/2015 Time: 19:00
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The training seats are limited to 40 attendees and will be assigned on a first come, first served basisand Volunteers and Presenters will have preference. The participants accepted to join the training will be notified before 24th April and will be asked to confirm their attendance. Download here the Training programme in pdf format.
2nd International BSC Doctoral Symposium 2015 – 5th May; Meeting Room Aula Master A3 Building | |||
Start time | Activity | Speaker/s | Chair |
9.00h | Welcome and opening |
Mateo Valero, BSC Director |
Maria Ribera, Education & Training Group Manager at BSC |
9.15h | Keynote Speaker talk: Research in Telefónica R&D | Nuria Oliver, Scientific Director Telefónica R&D |
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10.10h | First Poster Session & coffee break Heating Bulk Ions in DEMO with ICRF waves Dani Gallart, BSC Computer Applications in Science & Engineering Dpt. Rayleigh wave ellipticity measurements in the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco Clara Gómez-García, Spanish National Research Council Implementation of Dynamic Aerosol-Radiation Interaction within the NMMB/BSC-CTM Vincenzo Obiso, Earth Sciences Dpt. State-of-the-Art Climate Predictions for Energy Climate Services Verónica Torralba, Institut Català de Ciènces del Clima Identification of novel type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci through wholegenome imputation using sequencing based reference panels into 13.201 cases and 59.656 controls Sílvia Bonàs Guarch, BSCLife SciencesDpt. Parallel programming issues and what the compiler can do to help Sara Royuela, BSC Computer Sciences Dpt. |
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First Talk Session: PostDoc research at BSC (first part) |
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10.40h | Methodology to predict scalability of parallel applications |
Claudia Rosas, BSC Computer Sciences Dpt. |
Mariano Vázquez, High Performance Computational Mechanics Group Manager at BSC |
11:00h | Mesh generation to simulate incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with wind turbines | Abel Gargallo-Peiró, BSC Computer Applications in Science & Engineering Dept. |
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11.20h | Measurements and computer simulations: whom do we trust for atmospheric composition? |
Enza Di Tomaso, BSC Earth Sciences Dept. |
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11.40h | HPC and edge elements for geophysical electromagnetic problems: an overview | Octavio Castillo, BSC Computer Applications in Science & Engineering Dept. |
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12.00h | Second Poster Session & coffee break Automatic Query Driven Data Modelling in Cassandra Roger Hernandez, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. Modelling the Contact Propagation of Nosocomial Infection in Emergency Departments Cecili Jaramillo, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona MACC: Mercurium ACCelerator Model Guray Ozen, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. Capturing the action of current antipsychotic drugs at G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) by means of Markov State Model analysis Ismael Rodríguez-Espigares, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) - Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) A 3D-1D cardiac-vascular computational feedbacked model Alfonso Santiago, BSC Computer Applications in Science & Engineering Dept. |
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First Talk Session: PostDoc research at BSC (second part) | |||
12.20h | From imaging to simulation: a framework applied to simulate the blood flowin the carotids | Ruth Arís, BSC Computer Applications in Science & Engineering Dept. |
José María Cela, Director of BSC Computer Applications in Science & Engineering Dept. |
12:40h | Optimizing a coarse-grained model for the recognition of protein-protein binding | Agustí Emperador, BSC Life Sciences Dpt. |
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13.00h | Lunch break |
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15.00h | Training An Introduction to Scientific Writing starts; Lecturer Josep Lluis Pelegrí, ICM-CSIC |
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17.00h | Coffee break |
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17.15h | Training An Introduction to Scientific Writing continues; Lecturer Josep Lluis Pelegrí, ICM-CSIC |
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19.00h | Adjourn |
2nd International BSC Doctoral Symposium 2015 – 6th May; Meeting Room Aula Master A3 Building | |||||
Start time | Activity | Speaker/s | Chair | ||
9.00h | Opening of the second day | ||||
Second Talk Session: Algorithms, Physics & Data Science |
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9.10h | Study of Preconditioners based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods | Oscar A. Esquivel (PostDoc), CONACYT-BSC Computer Sciences Dept. |
Vassil Alexandrov , Extreme Computing Group Manager at BSC |
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9.30h | Supercomputing simulations for Beyond Standard Model theories at the TeV scale: non-standard gravity and electroweak interactions | Rafael Delgado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
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9.50h | Discovering most significant news using Network Science approach | Ilya Blokh, Perm State University |
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10.10h | Linompss – A Linear Algebra Library on OMPSs | Sicong Zhuang, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. |
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10.30h | Third Poster Session & coffee break Evaluation of Modelling Systems in High Resolution to Assess the Air Pollutant Impacts on Human Health Sergio N. González (PostDoc), BSC Earth Sciences Dpt - CONACYT. Binding Free Energy and Ligand Orientation Calculations using A Monte Carlo Method with Markov Sate Analysis Daniel Lecina, BSCLife SciencesDept. Asynchronous parallel fluid solver and particle transport Edgar Olivares, BSC Computer Applications in Science & Engineering Dept. A parallel coupled algorithm for the solution of deformable two-body contact problem Matías Rivero, BSC Computer Applications in Science & Engineering Dept. Resource Management for Software Defined Data Centers for Heterogeneous Infrastructures Marcelo Amaral, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. A framework for multidimensional indexes on distributed and highly-available data stores Cesare Cugnasco, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. Mathematical Representation of the Hardware Round-Robin Scheduler Analytical Model for Single-ISA Heterogeneous Architectures Daniel Nemirovsky, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. |
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Third Talk Session: Scheduling, Interconnections and Simulations |
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11.20h | Criticality-Aware Dynamic Task Scheduling for Heterogeneous Systems | Kallia Chronaki, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. |
Daniele Lezzi, Senior researcher at BSC Grid Computing and Clusters Group |
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11.40h | Interconnect Energy Savings on MapReduce Clusters | Renan Fischer e Silva, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. |
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12.00h | Efficient Address Translation for Memory Intensive Workloads | Vasileios Karakostas, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. |
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12.20h | High Performance Computing Based Simulation for Healthcare Decision Support | Zhengchun Liu, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
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12.40h | Hardware Scheduling Algorithms for Asymmetric Single-ISA CMPs | Nikola Markovic, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. |
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13.00h | Lunch break |
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15.00h | Training An Introduction to Scientific Writing continues; Lecturer Josep Lluis Pelegrí, ICM-CSIC |
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17.00h | Coffee break |
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17.15h | Training An Introduction to Scientific Writing continues; Lecturer Josep Lluis Pelegrí, ICM-CSIC |
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19.00h | End of the Training and Adjourn |
2nd International BSC Doctoral Symposium 2015 – 7th May; Meeting Room Aula Master A3 Building | |||||
Start time | Activity | Speaker/s | Chair | ||
9.00h | Opening of the third day | ||||
Fourth Talk Session: Life Sciences |
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9.10h | Macroscopic structures generated by microorganisms swimming in a fluid |
Francisco Alarcón, Universitat de Barcelona |
David Torrents, Computational Genomics Group Manager |
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9.30h | Assessment of scoring functions performance to re-rank docking decoys from FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) programs |
Didier Barradas, BSC Life Sciences Dept. |
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9.50h | Implementation of an Internal Coordinates Anisotropic Network Model in PELE |
Víctor A. Gil, BSC Life Sciences Dept. |
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10.10h | Inter-residue interactions in membrane proteins | Eduardo Mayol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
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10.30h | Fourth Poster Session & coffee break Galaxy Gears: Web Services integration into Galaxy workflows Dmitry Repchevsky, BSCLife SciencesDept. Single amino acid mutation controls hole transfer dynamics in DNAmethyltransferase HhaI complexes Marina Corbella, Universitat de Barcelona Catalytic surface radical in dye-decolorizing peroxidase Marina Cañellas, BSCLife SciencesDept. Theoretical study on the activation mechanism of AMP-kinase by means of Molecular Dynamics Simulations Carolina Estarellas (PostDoc), Universitat de Barcelona GWImp-COMPSs: An Integrated Framework for Large-scale Genome-wide Imputation and Association Testing Marta Guindo, BSCLife SciencesDept. PMut2015: a web-based tool for predicting pathological mutations on proteins Víctor López, BSCLife SciencesDept. Influence of Temperature on the Topological Features of Inner Cavities in Cytoglobin Constantí Seira, Universitat de Barcelona Cation- π-cation interactions in proteins Silvana De Souza Pinheiro, Universitat de Barcelona |
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Fifth Talk Session: Computer Sciences and Applications |
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11.20h | A novel approach to reconstruct the plinian and co-ignimbrite phases of large eruptions - Campanian Ignimbrite |
Alejandro Martí, BSC Computer Applications in Science & Engineering Dept. |
Eduard Ayguadé, Associate Director of BSC Computer Sciences Dept. |
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11.40h | Plasma Physics Code Contribution to the Mont-Blanc Project |
Xavier Sáez, BSC Computer Applications in Science & Engineering Dept. |
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12.00h | Folding: reporting instantaneous performance metrics and source-code references | Harald Servat, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. |
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12.20h | Probabilistically Time-Analyzable Complex Processors in Hard Real-Time systems | Mladen Slijepcevic, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. |
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12.40h | Improving the prefetching performance through code region profiling | Martí Torrents, UPC BarcelonaTech |
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13.00h | Lunch break |
Sixth Talk Session: Earth Sciences and Physics |
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14.00h | Dynamics of double-polarity subduction: application to the Western Mediterranean | Mireia Peral, Institute of Earth Science Jaume Almera (CSIC) |
Arnau Folch, Environmental Simulations Group Manager at BSC |
14.20h | Characterization of coal power plants plume dynamics under typical synoptic conditions over the Iberian Peninsula |
Víctor Valverde, BSC Earth Sciences Dept. |
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14.40h | Quantum dynamics study of the hydrogen molecule confined in single-walled carbon nanotubes |
Manel Mondelo-Martell, Universitat de Barcelona |
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15.00h | Fifth Poster Session & coffee break Hecuba: NoSql made easy Guillem Alomar, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. Scaling Irregular Array-type Reductions in OmpSs Jan Ciesko, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. DLP Acceleration on General Purpose Cores Milovan Duric, BSC Computer Sciences Dept. Enhancing Timing Analysis for COTS multicores for the Space industry: a software approach Gabriel Fernandez, UPC BarcelonaTech Methodology to select a I/O configuration (hardware resources and stack software) in cloud platform Pilar Gómez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona A Multiphysics implementation for conjugate heat transfer and compressible-low mach coupling Miguel Zavala, BSC Computer Applications in Science & Engineering Dept. Undestanding Scientific Application's Performance Oriol Tintó , Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
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Seventh Talk Session: Life Sciences |
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15.30h | Sugar Conformations that Enhance Cleavage of Glycosidic Bonds in Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes |
Lluis Raich, Universitat de Barcelona |
Víctor Guallar, Electronic and Atomic Protein Modelling Group Manager at BSC |
15.50h | pyDock performance in 5th CAPRI edition: from docking and scoring to binding affinity predictions and other challenges |
Chiara Pallara, BSC Life Sciences Dept. |
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16.10h | Characterization of complex chromosomal rearrangements in cancer genomes | Marta Munar, BSC Life Sciences Dept. |
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16.30h | Conclusions |
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17.00h | End of the Doctoral Symposium |