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

Europe/Sofia
IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228

IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228

Description

In the period of 18-20 July 2022 there will be a visit of NCC UK experts in Bulgaria and a series of collaboration activities in the framework of EuroCC project between NCC Bulgaria and NCC UK will be organized:

Workshop "Training and skills development", 18 July 2022

Industry collaboration day, 19 July 2022

Workshop "Quantum and Quantum/Classical Computing", 20 July 2022

All events will be held at IICT premises: Acad. G. Bonchev St., block 2, hall 228

Registration is OPEN.

The experts meetings on 18 and 20 of July are by invitation only - no registration is necessary.

Contacts: Aneta Karaivanova Aleksandar Kirilov
    • 14:00 14:10
      Opening 10m
    • 14:00 14:10
      Opening and participants’ introduction 10m
    • 14:00 17:30
      Training and skills development 3h 30m
    • 14:10 15:10
      Training programmes and experience of NCC UK 1h
    • 14:10 14:40
      • EPCC – PG courses and training for academia & computational sci researchers 30m
      Speaker: D. Henty
    • 14:40 15:10
      • Hartree Centre - Explain Program & training for businesses and industry 30m
      Speaker: E. Alexandrova
    • 15:10 15:26
      Analysis of BG training study results 16m
      Speakers: A. Karaivanova, S. Margenov
    • 15:10 16:00
      Training priorities and experience in Bulgaria: 50m
    • 15:26 15:42
      Training for Large RIs 16m
      Speaker: A. Proykova
    • 15:42 16:00
      Data Security 18m
      Speaker: V. Dimitrov
    • 16:00 16:20
      Coffee break 20m
    • 16:20 17:30
      Discussion 1h 10m
    • 16:20 17:30
      Discussion: Joint activities towards online training 1h 10m

      UK: V. Alexandrov. E. Alexandrova, D. Henty, Stefano Mensa; BG: A. Karaivanova, E. Atanassov, St. Harizanov, S. Ivanovska, M. Durchova, A. Proykova, V. Kolev, V. Dimitrov, K. Stefanova

    • 10:00 15:15
      Industry Collaboration Day 5h 15m
    • 10:00 10:05
      Opening 5m
      Speaker: A. Karaivanova
    • 10:05 10:20
      IICT and EDIHs 15m
      Speaker: G. Angelova(director of IICT)
    • 10:20 10:35
      EDIH Trakia 15m
      Speaker: S. Iliev(Union for Private Economic Enterprise)
    • 10:35 11:05
      Approaches and exemplar case studies of working with industry 30m
      Speaker: V. Alexandrov(NCC UK)
    • 11:05 11:25
      Coffee break 20m
    • 11:25 11:45
      Approaches and policy for working with industry using HPC 20m
      Speaker: E. Atanassov(NCC BG)
    • 11:45 12:05
      HPC/HPDA/AI: Infrastructures, Services and Activities to Support the Businesses 20m
      Speaker: K. Stefanova(NCC BG)
    • 12:05 12:25
      HPC/HDPA/AI Applications in Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval 20m
      Speaker: M. Nisheva
    • 12:25 12:45
      Supercomputer Applications in Biomedical Engineering 20m
      Speaker: St. Harizanov
    • 12:45 13:05
      Simulation of trimaran motion in multiphase flow conditions 20m
      Speakers: E. Atanassov, T. Gurov
    • 13:05 14:00
      Lunch break 55m
    • 14:00 15:00
      Discussion: Promising approaches to working with SMEs and industry 1h
    • 15:00 15:15
      Coffee break 15m
    • 10:00 13:30
      Experts’ meeting 3h 30m
    • 10:00 10:10
      Opening 10m
    • 10:10 10:30
      HPDA-based Software architecture, ETL and Data analytics for Smart Agriculture 20m
      Speaker: Y. Hristov
    • 10:30 11:00
      HPC facilities in Bulgaria 30m
      Speakers: E. Atanassov, I. Dimov
    • 11:00 11:30
      Hybrid Quantum/Classical and Quantum Computing uptake in UK 30m
      Speaker: S. Mensa
    • 11:30 11:45
      Coffee break 15m
    • 11:45 12:15
      Using quantum annealers for solving optimization problems 30m
      Speaker: Hr. Djidjev(IICT)
    • 12:15 12:35
      How business prepares now for the quantum computing future 20m
      Speaker: N. Zlateva
    • 12:35 13:30
      Discussion: Planning for future collaborative actions 55m