Plenary speakers at PASC26 include Estela Suarez (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany), Reto Knutti (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), and Alexei Grinbaum (CEA-Saclay, France).
This year, PASC26 Best Paper Award first author Deifilia Kieckhefen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) will present the award-winning paper on training AI weather models at extreme scale on behalf of her co-authors.
At PASC26 we will have two panel discussions closely aligned with the theme of the conference.
Tuesday morning’s panel will touch upon many open questions that punctuate the rapidly changing landscape of scientific computing with the advent of AI and developments globally. It will feature eminent voices from some of the leading corporations in the world of computing infrastructure, along with voices from academia and public policy. Together with these experts, we will explore whether science can remain sovereign in an increasingly commercial, constrained, and contested computational landscape, and we will reflect on how to pave the pathway forward.
The closing panel on Wednesday will focus on the conference’s central theme, featuring experts from astrophysics, energy research, computing infrastructure, international development, national laboratories, and large-scale global collaborations. Moderated by the Conference Co-Chairs, the panel will reflect on the conference’s key insights, exploring themes such as trust, the co-design of systems, and the future of science in the age of AI.
