Harnessing Exascale Computing and Scalable AI for Societal Impact
from
Wednesday, 17 June 2026 (00:20)
to
Thursday, 18 June 2026 (16:30)
Monday, 15 June 2026
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
08:00
Registration and morning coffee
08:00 - 08:45
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
08:45
Welcome from STFC Hartree Centre and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL)
08:45 - 09:00
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
08:50
Welcome from the Hartree Centre and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL)
09:00
View from the Trenches: Challenges in Leadership Computing
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
09:00
Harnessing Composable Architectures
09:40
Can AI transform Quantum Computing?
10:20
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:40
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
10:40
View from the Trenches: Challenges in Leadership Computing
10:40 - 11:00
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
10:40
AI-driven code portability and maintenance
11:00
Why Compute and AI at Scale Matter
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
11:00
Advances in protein folding at the exascale
11:20
Human-Centric Scheduling for the NHS
11:40
Advanced Manufacturing A UK US Programme for Advancement of Battery Science | Martin Freer, Faraday Institution
11:40 - 12:20
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
12:00
Toward Autonomous Discovery in Experimental Science Facilities
12:15
Lunch
12:15 - 13:20
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
13:20
Advanced Manufacturing A UK US Programme for Advancement of Battery Science | Martin Freer, Faraday Institution
13:20 - 13:50
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
13:50
Policies and Strategic Views UK Current Landscape and Perspectives
13:50 - 14:30
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
13:50
Delivery of the UK Compute Roadmap
14:10
STFC AI Strategy and International Collaboration prospective
14:30
Coffee break
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
15:00
Policies and strategic views US current landscape and prospective
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
16:00
Alternative Energy and Energy Efficiency
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
16:00
Harnessing AI and Extreme scale Computing for advancing Fusion Energy
16:30
AI-assisted Fusion Modelling
17:00
Generative design and optimization at LLNL
17:20
AI-driven materials discovery
Thursday, 18 June 2026
08:30
Registration and Morning Coffee
Registration and Morning Coffee
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
09:00
Exploring the Computing Continuum
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
09:00
The HPC Centre of the Future-Eric Drager LLNL
09:30
Hartree Centre's scalable AI and hybrid approaches-Vassil Alexandrov, STFC Hartree Centre
10:00
Over to you - Interactive Q and A
10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 10:50
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
10:50
Accelerating Discovery: Materials and Life Sciences
10:50 - 12:00
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
10:50
From atoms to application: scalable simulation-driven formulation design
11:20
AI-driven Discovery
11:50
Discussion
12:00
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
13:00
Computational Challenges for Federated Services, Facilities and Data
13:00 - 14:20
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
13:00
Computational Challenges for Federated Facilities and Data-Paul Quinn, STFC
13:30
Network Plus: What the UK is doing to deliver federated compute services. Sadaf Alam, University of Bristol
14:20
Coffee break
14:20 - 14:50
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
14:50
Panel Discussion
14:50 - 16:00
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
16:00
Closing Remarks
16:00 - 16:05
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block