NCC Bulgaria and NCC UK: Collaboration and Twinning Activities, 18-20 July 2022, Sofia, Bulgaria

from Monday, 18 July 2022 (10:00) to Wednesday, 20 July 2022 (17:00)
IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 Jul 2022
19 Jul 2022
20 Jul 2022
AM
10:00 --- Industry Collaboration Day ---
10:00 Opening - A. Karaivanova   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
10:05 IICT and EDIHs - G. Angelova(director of IICT)   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
10:20 EDIH Trakia - S. Iliev(Union for Private Economic Enterprise)   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
10:35 Approaches and exemplar case studies of working with industry - V. Alexandrov(NCC UK)   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
11:05 --- Coffee break ---
11:25 Approaches and policy for working with industry using HPC - E. Atanassov(NCC BG)   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
11:45 HPC/HPDA/AI: Infrastructures, Services and Activities to Support the Businesses - K. Stefanova(NCC BG)   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
10:00 --- Experts’ meeting ---
10:00 Opening   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
10:10 HPDA-based Software architecture, ETL and Data analytics for Smart Agriculture - Y. Hristov   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
10:30 HPC facilities in Bulgaria - I. Dimov E. Atanassov   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
11:00 Hybrid Quantum/Classical and Quantum Computing uptake in UK - S. Mensa   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
11:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:45 Using quantum annealers for solving optimization problems - Hr. Djidjev(IICT)   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
PM
14:00 --- Opening ---
14:00 Opening and participants’ introduction   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
14:00 --- Training and skills development ---
14:10 --- Training programmes and experience of NCC UK ---
14:10 • EPCC – PG courses and training for academia & computational sci researchers - D. Henty   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
14:40 • Hartree Centre - Explain Program & training for businesses and industry - E. Alexandrova   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
15:10 Analysis of BG training study results - A. Karaivanova S. Margenov   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
15:10 --- Training priorities and experience in Bulgaria: ---
15:26 Training for Large RIs - A. Proykova   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
15:42 Data Security - V. Dimitrov   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:20 --- Discussion ---
16:20 Discussion: Joint activities towards online training   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
12:05 HPC/HDPA/AI Applications in Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval - M. Nisheva   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
12:25 Supercomputer Applications in Biomedical Engineering - St. Harizanov   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
12:45 Simulation of trimaran motion in multiphase flow conditions - E. Atanassov T. Gurov   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
13:05 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Discussion: Promising approaches to working with SMEs and industry   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
12:15 How business prepares now for the quantum computing future - N. Zlateva   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)
12:35 Discussion: Planning for future collaborative actions   (IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228)