The PASC Conference is one of the outcomes of the PASC initiative (Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing). The third PASC Conference – PASC16 – will be held from 8 to 10 June 2016 at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland. Nicola Marzari, Professor of Theory and Simulation of Materials at EPF Lausanne and Co-chair of the conference, and […]

Prof. Paul Woodward of the University of Minnesota will give the last plenary talk at PASC16 Conference on Friday 10th June in the morning on “Simulations of Hydrogen Ingestion Flashes in Giant Stars”: “My team at the University of Minnesota has been collaborating with the team of Falk Herwig at the University of Victoria to […]

The PASC16 Conference would like to inform you that the submission deadline for abstracts for contributed talks has been extended to March 16, 2016. You may submit your proposal either as a standalone talk or as a contribution to one of the conference minisymposia. If you choose the latter, pease submit your proposal as a […]

Prof. Chris J. Pickard of the University of Cambridge will give a plenary talk at PASC16 Conference on Thursday 9th June afternoon on “Random Explorations of Material Structure Space”: “The use of stochastic optimization strategies for first principles structure prediction is now well established. There are many examples of these techniques making genuine discoveries. Ab […]

Prof. Beth Wingate of the University of Exeter will give a plenary talk at PASC16 Conference on the morning of the 9th June on “Challenges for Climate and Weather Prediction in the Era of Heterogeneous Computer Architectures”: “For weather or climate models to achieve exascale performance on next-generation heterogeneous computer architectures they will be required […]