5th BSC Severo Ochoa Doctoral Symposium 2018

Doctoral Symposium

Date: 24/Apr/2018 Time: 09:00 - 25/Apr/2018 Time: 18:00

Place:

The Doctoral Symposium will take place in Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, within the UPC Campus Nord premises.

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Target group: PhD students as well as early stages PostDoc researchers and late stages MSc students in the BSC areas of research and complementing areas.

Cost: The Symposium is free of charge.

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DAY 1 (24th of April)

Start time Activity Speaker/s
8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcome and opening Josep Mª Martorell, BSC Associate Director
9:20 Keynote talk: Quantum Disruption Jose Ignacio Latorre Sentis
Quantic Group Leader, CASE, BSC
  Abstract: Quantum Technologies are coming of age. The EU has recently approved a FET-Flagship on Quantum Technologies, an instrument that will invest 1000 M Euros structured around four pillars: quantum computation, quantum communication, quantum simulation and quantum sensors. In this talk, we shall concentrate in recent progress achieved in quantum computation. The basic idea emerges from the fact that quantum mechanics allows for the manipulation of information in superposition states, called qubits. Furthermore, these superpositions evolved simultaneously following logical gates, providing a genuine parallel computation paradigm. A relevant example of the future use of a quantum computer is illustrated by Shor’s algorithm, a quantum circuit that will factor large numbers in polynomial time, and will consequently break all present cryptography. Quantum logic, though, does not correlate in a simple way to classical algorithms. Non-trivial efforts must be devoted to further understand which problems can be addressed efficiently with quantum computation. Finally, it is arguable that quantum computation brings not only a possible dramatic speed up in some computations, but also provides relevant savings in energy. Research teams around the world compete fiercely to get a first demonstration of quantum supremacy over classical computation. Welcome to the quantum race.
10:30 Event Photo + Coffee break & First Poster Session
10:40
  1. Application of the edge-based finite element method for fusion plasma simulations, Marc Fuster
  2. Skip RNN Learning to Skip State Updates in Recurrent Neural Networks, Víctor Campos
  3. Recurrent Semantic Instance Segmentation, Míriam Bellver
  4. Improving Time-Randomized Cache Designs, Pedro Benedicte
  5. Co-Evolution of Morphology and Behavior in Self-Organized Robotic Swarms, Jessica Meyer
First Talk Session: Life Sciences
11:40 FrAG-PELE: Novel Fragment-based Growing Tool for hit-tolead in Early Drug Discovery Carles Pérez López
12:00 Sampling Interfacial Water Effects over Protein Specificity with PELE Martí Municoy Terol
12:20 Characteritzation of pathological mutations affecting proteinprotein interactions for drug discovery Mireia Rosell Oliveras
12:40 Lunch Break
14:30 Tutorial 1
  Troubleshooting Session: Key challenges for earlycareer researchers Gavin Lucas PhD, director of ThePaperMill
  Goals & Content

The goal of this short session is help early-career researchers gain new perspectives on some of the key challenges they face, and to acquire practical tools that they can apply in their day-to-day working environment. I will present short modules focused on communication, personal effectiveness, and on sharing and discussing the common challenges faced by all early career researchers, and how they can be addressed. Topics for this workshop:

  • Group awareness - Troubleshooting the challenges of early-career research
  • Communication - Understanding my audience and pitching my message
  • Project Management – How can I prioritise my tasks?
16:30 Adjourn

DAY 2 (25th of April)

Start time Activity Speaker/s
9:00 Opening of the second day
  Second Talk Session: Simulations and Modelling
9:10 Comparison of seismic ground motions in Mexico City due to damaging earthquakes applying Seismograms Analyzere Armando Aguilar-Melendez
9:30 Earthquake simulation by Fiber Bundle Model and Machine Learning techniques Marisol Monterrubio Velasco
9:50 An introduction to FE2 multi-scale methods and why HPC is so crucial Guido Giuntoli
10:10 Effect of population structure, parameter estimation of complex model, and effect of LITB on TB dynamics Nura Mohammad Rabiu Ahmad
10:30 An assessment of regional sea ice predictability in the Arctic ocean Ruben Cruz-García
10:50 Coffee break & Second Poster Session:
 
  1. A Unified Memory approach to GPU acceleration on task based programming models, Aimar Rodríguez
  2. A Machine Learning Workflow for Hurricane Prediction, Albert Kahira
  3. Evaluation of traffic emission models coupled with a microscopic traffic simulator and on-road measures, Daniel Rey
  4. Accelerating binding free energy calculations by combining Monte Carlo simulations, enhanced sampling and Markov State Models, Joan Francesc Gilabert
Third Talk Session: Programming Models and Computer Architectures
12:00 Model-based Machine Learning for Retrospective Event Detection Joan Capdevila Pujol
12:00 Detailed Tuning and Validation of Hardware Simulators through Microbenchmarks Rommel Sánchez
12:40 Enabling a Reliable STT-MRAM Main Memory Simulation Kazi Asifuzzaman
13:00 A Linux Kernel Scheduler Extension for Multi-Core Systems Aleix Roca Nonell
13:20 Lunch break
14:30 Tutorial 2
  How to become rich following an academic career Leonardo Bautista-Gomez, Research Scientist at BSC
  Goals & Content

The scientific field is very competitive and sometimes it can be even intimidating. This can lead promising young researchers to move to other domains or industries. However, following an academic career also comes with multiple advantages that might be hard to recognize at the early stages. In this talk I will present the perks and benefits of following an academic career.
  Marie Curie Individual Fellowships: Info & BestPractices Toni Peña, Sr. Researcher at BSC
  Goals & Content

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships from the European Comission are a great hit in a researcher's career. We will introduce these fellowships, including requirements and benefits, and will advise on how to prepare a successful application.
15:40 Coffee break
  Fourth Talk Session: Algorithms and applications
16:00 Modelling of Alfvénic instabilities in complex toroidal magnetic geometries for fusion Allah Rakha
16:20 Robust point-location method for linear and high order meshes. Application to particle transport Edgar Olivares
16:40 On the quest to reach nuclear fusion as a future energy source Dani Gallart Escolà
17:00 Fuzzy Finite State Machines in Crowd Simulation Leonel Antonio Toledo Díaz
17:20 Top View Human Head and Shoulder Classification Using CNN Ivan Rivalcoba
17:40 Conclusions
17:50 End of the Doctoral Symposium