Introductions Forum

Hello, I am June. I am from New York City. I received a B.A. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Scientific Computing from Courant Institute, New York University. I will join the University of Chicago for my Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics. My research interests lie in the area of high-dimensional data analysis, numerical methods, fluid dynamics and parallel computing. I hope to meet computational scientists all over the world and to learn some HPC tools during the summer school. I enjoy hiking and bouldering.

Hi, I’m Mihaela. I’m a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. My research is in the area of Machine Learning using Graphical Models. In particular, I focus on network reconstruction of complex systems using graphical models techniques.

Attending the summer school, I hope to learn more about how to parallelize code and be able to apply that to run the algorithms that we are developing in parallel. I also hope to meet researchers and HPC experts from all over the world and learn more about their research.

I enjoy outdoors activities such as running, hiking or kayaking.

Hello everyone!

I'm Fizza. I'm an Informatics PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a research concentration in Bioinformatics. For my dissertation research, I'm studying the interplay of protein function and dynamics in evolution. Specifically, I measure protein dynamics with respect to protein function using Molecular Dynamics simulations at nanosecond timescales and study their correlation along phylogenomic timescales.

In the summer school, I hope to learn how to efficiently parallelize machine learning algorithms as well as general best practices in HPC.

I'm looking forward to the summer school and excited about the opportunity to fellow researchers from around the world, leveraging HPC in their projects!

I enjoy hiking, reading, tinkering with electronics (started recently), crafting, crocheting and painting. 

Hi everyone! I'm Malena, and I'm a PhD student in Astronomy at Yale University. I'm originally from southern California, and I received my B.A. in Physics and B.A. in Astrophysics at UC Berkeley. My research focuses on the field of exoplanets, and I am interested in the formation and evolution of planetary systems. To study these phenomena, I work regularly with hydrodynamics simulations, inverse modeling, and orbital integrators.

By attending this school, I hope to learn best practices for HPC, as well as to learn how others in different fields and from different backgrounds use similar techniques in their own research. I'm also really looking forward to meeting and getting to know other researchers from around the world!

Outside of the academic realm, I also love to read, play the flute, visit art museums, go running and hiking, and explore new cities. 

Hello everyone,

I am Martin and currently doing my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, in the field of Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Prior to my PhD I studied physics in Heidelberg, Germany. I am now mostly into methods development connected to a technique from computational chemistry called 'Alchemical Transformation'. If you are, like many others, wondering about the word 'alchemical', then I look forward to explaining to you what it is about =) 

To throw in some phrases that describe me well: I enjoy playing football (soccer) on a level, where the direction of the ball is more random than intended. I love riding my mountainbike in the hills. I am originally from South-West Germany where we produce a lot of white wines, but for whatever reason my taste buds decided to prefer the red ones. I stayed abroad in Japan for a bit and continue to learn the language for fun. And I love good coffee. But who doesn't ...

But most of all: Looking forward to meet you!

Hello, everyone,

I am Tzu-Shun. I am a Ph.D. student of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My main research interests include agroecosystem modeling, terrestrial ecosystem, land-atmosphere interaction, and air quality. Particularly, I'm studying the role of agriculture, terrestrial ecosystem, land use, and major greenhouse gases (e.g., CO2, CH4, and N2O) using process-based earth system models and statistical methods under climate change and human management. 

Within this summer school, it would be a good chance for me to learn the important knowledge of HPC. I would like to know how to accelerate the model efficiency to complete the simulations at finer resolutions. Additionally, I would like to know how to do parallel computing for my python codes and parallel NetCDF to advance the computational time.

I enjoy exercises and outdoors activities such as hiking, baseball, table tennis and badminton.

Hello everyone!

I am very much looking forward to meeting you all. I am Jens and I am currently working on my Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Valencia, Spain. At the CAMAP (Computer Aided Modeling of Astrophysical Plasmas) group, I am conducting simulations of force-free electromagnetic fields around rapidly spinning black holes and neutron stars.

This summer school is a great opportunity for me to exchange with students from various fields. A current challenge of my work is to ensure proper parallel scaling for a code package I wrote on the infrastructure of the Einstein Toolkit. Also, I need to visualize 3D data of my astrophysical simulations. I am sure, that the HPC school with you will give me plenty of new ideas.

I enjoy working out, cooking with and for friends and I really want to do a sailing course this year - let's see how that will go.

See you soon!! My best from Spain
Jens

Hello everyone. My name is Erik Vázquez, I'm a PhD Chemistry student at University of North Texas (UNT). I received my B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Zacatecas, Mexico) and a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Technological Institute of Celaya (Celaya, Mexico). Originally, I started my PhD at Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan, USA), but my advisor (G. Andrés Cisneros) and the research group move to UNT back in Fall 2016.

I have been using ab initio methods, density functional theory (DFT), molecular dynamics (MD) and hybrid QM/MM methods to understand reaction mechanisms in DNA-repair enzymes, room-temperature ionic liquids properties, the effect and nature of intermolecular interactions in Pd-complexes and carbon nanotubes (CNTs).Within this summer school, I want to learn basic and cutting edge HPC techniques, that will help me to have a better understanding of parallel computing and will

Hello everyone,

I am Beibei Jiang, PhD candidate in Statistical Genetics at Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.  My research focus is the development of statistical methods with high efficiency and computing performance for genome-wide interaction studies (GWIS) of complex diseases.

This summer school offers the broad and professional knowledge about HPC, and a big opportunity to communicate with the HPC experts and peers. I am a freshman in this field and willing to learn more from you.

I like board games a lot and look forward to trying new games. 

See you next week!

I am from New Jersey, USA. I went to Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ (B.S. Chemistry, Pure and Applied Mathematics) from 2009 - 2013. I did my Ph.D. at the University of Michigan from 2013 - April 2018. My PhD was in the topic of theoretical chemistry (electronic structure).  I like traveling to other countries and animals!

Hello everyone!

It's very nice to read all of your introductions and see that there are so many different fields of study!

My name is Giselle and I am a PhD student in Applied Math at the University of Waterloo in Canada. I am originally from Venezuela where I obtained my BSc and MSc degrees also in Applied Math. For my PhD project, I am using finite element methods to solve free surface problems. These kind of problems model gravity ocean waves, and we are interested in computing the velocity of the fluid (in this case water) and the position of the wave at every time step. In order to simulate real-life scenarios, we require a lot of computational power. Therefore, in the summer school I hope to learn how to parallelize my codes and make the best use of HPC tools.

I hope to see all of you soon!

Best,
Giselle

Hi everyone,

I am Abdullah. I completed my undergraduate (Mathematics) and master (Scientific Computing) degrees in Turkey. Then I moved to Canada for my doctoral studies in Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. Currently I am working on developing preconditioners for a specific discretization (it is called Hybridized Discontinuous Galerkin method, if you are interested) of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Mainly, I am interested in Numerical Linear Algebra, Preconditioners and Parallel and High Performance Computing.

I am excited to meet new people and learn and discuss the interesting research you are doing.

Best wishes,
Abdullah Ali Sivas

Hello everyone, I am Gaurav Kumar, born and brought up in India. I'm a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Maryland College Park, USA. I work on computation of vibrational mode properties of solids, which manifest thermal transport on atomic scale

I did my B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in India. After graduating, I worked as a research engineer for ~3 years at Honda Automobile R&D Center , Japan.

In my free time, I enjoy hiking, reading fiction, watching anime, and always down for a glass of beer with friends

Looking forward to meeting you all.

Hello everyone,

I'm Itinder. I go by I.T. I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I work on the initiation of deep convective storms in Central Argentina. These storms - usually initiated in the lee of the Andes and the nearby Sierras de Córdoba - are some of the most intense episodes of atmospheric convection in the world. I use the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and CM1 (Cloud model 1) to conduct high-resolution, real and idealized simulations of convection initiation. 

Through this summer school, I hope to gain a deeper understanding of code parallelization so that I can modify/improve the code that I use. 

Hi All! 

I'm Arsalan. I graduated in BE Electrical Engineering from Pakistan. I worked on embedded and real-time processor systems and parallel computing benchmarks for ~3 years before I started my Ph.D. in high-performance heterogeneous computing systems at University College Dublin in Ireland. 

My current area of research is energy consumption modeling for modern multicore and heterogeneous platforms. 

I am very excited to meet you all and spend memorable time with colleagues at summer school. I expect this summer school to be very useful for me to make new friends and connections for future research collaborations.  

My hobbies are hiking, meeting new people and cooking. 

See you all in Ostrava

Cheers!

Hi everyone,

I am Yeawon, and I am a Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University. I am originally from South Korea and I received my B.S. degree in Industrial and Management Engineering. My research focuses on developing a computationally-improved algorithm for quantitative group decision analysis, especially for a large number of objects and judges. Therefore, in this summer school, I would like to learn high-performance computing techniques, which could be applied to my research.

Outside of the school, I love to listen to music and love to travel.

I am really excited to meet you in Ostrava soon!

Hello everyone! 

My name is Theresa and I am from Austria. I studied mechanical engineering and now I am doing a PhD at the Institute of Aerodynamics and Fluid mechanics at TU Munich, Germany. The topic of my thesis is cavitating multi-phase flows, where phase change of the liquid (evaporation) and an additional gas-phase are considered. With the help of large scale numerical simulations, I investigate the interaction of cavitation and turbulence and the effect of cavitation in a nozzle flow on the primary jet break-up. Important aspects for me are parallel programming, parallel i/o and python programming. 

In my free time I enjoy hiking in the mountains and outdoor activities. 

Alo!

I am Melanie and I originally hail from the island of Mauritius. As a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell in the Mechanical Engineering department, I am working on particle drop coalescence in cumulus clouds. My bachelor was widely different from the topic of my PhD and focused on mechanical design and manufacturing. Using commercial simulation software got me intrigued by what was behind the black box which is why I am in general interested in all things that are HPC. My research interests lie in the overlap of Mathematics, Physics and HPC in solving climate related phenomenon. 

I am quite new to the HPC world and am thrilled to go through this summer experience to learn side by side with peers from different cultures and educational backgrounds. 

In my downtime, I hike, play badminton and practice my old piano pieces that I find here and there. More seriously though, I am open to any starring contest.

Hi there,

I am Sylvia, a postdoc at Columbia University studying how atmospheric convective systems initiate, propagate, and precipitate. I was born in Texas and did my bachelors and doctorate degrees in chemical engineering at the California and Georgia Institutes of Technology. I wrote my thesis on the parameterization of ice formation in clouds.

I use a variety of tools in my atmospheric science work.. global climate models, regional weather ones, and satellite data sets. While I have used computational tools for several years now, I'm looking forward to formalizing some of this knowledge, filling in gaps about parallelization, and meeting other researchers.

I have three sports - running, swimming, and biking - and three languages - French, Spanish, and German - that take up my free time. And I love to travel when I find time.

See you soon,

Sylvia

Hello Everyone, 

My name is Rodolfo Aguirre, although I was born in Texas, I am from Mexican descent. I did my bachelors, masters and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Currently, I am doing a postdoc and lecturing at UTEP. My research is about performing Molecular Dynamics simulations to study the structure of materials used for solar cells at the atomic scale. By attending the summer school, I hope to get HPC skills that will help me to advance more in my research. I also expect to meet students and professionals from all around the world and establish networks that may led to future collaborations. 

I enjoy outdoor activities, dancing and playing music. 

Hi, my name is Tomislav, I studied Mechanical Engineering in Zagreb, Croatia (where I'm originally from), and in Munich Germany, and achieved my Dr.-Ing. at the mathematics department at TU Darmstadt in Germany, where I'm currently working as a postdoc.

My research focus lies in developing numerical methods for simulating flows of immiscible fluids, that are separated by a sharp boundary. I find this topic very interesting, because it lies in the intersection of numerical mathematics, high performance computing, software engineering (large scale software design, modularity) and computational physics (e.g. modeling surface tension and contact line behavior in the single-field two-phase Navier-Stokes model).

In my spare time, I enjoy reading, working out and watching movies.

I'm looking forward to the IHPCSS, it will be fun to learn more about HPC and meet new people.

Hello everyone!!

My name is Masataka. I am a PhD student in the Department of Structural Molecular Science at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Japan. I received my B.S degree in Physics from Nagoya University. My research interest is molecular dynamics simulation for biomolecule systems. I conducted development of MD methods and algorithms to enhance the sampling efficiency so far.

This summer school is a great opportunity for me to obtain knowledge about HPC. I hope to learn the advanced techniques about parallel programming and its performance analysis tools. I’m also looking forward to meeting and discuss with researchers coming from a variety of fields. 

My hobby is visiting art museum, watching classical ballet and training in gym.

Hello, 

My name is Tess and I am originally from Arizona. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in physics at the University of Texas at Austin, though I currently live in Princeton, NJ. I work with a research group at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab simulating turbulence in the edge of magnetically confined fusion devices.  My research interests are optimization and visualization. 

At the IHPCSS, I hope to learn how other fields use HPC in ways that might be helpful for the problems I address in plasma physics. I would like to learn advanced computing techniques that will be valuable to my research. I look forward to meeting other computational scientists from a variety of places and backgrounds!

In my spare time, I enjoy ballet dancing, attending music concerts, surfing and hiking. 

Hi all!

My name is Cathrine and I'm almost 3 months into my PhD studies in Theoretical Biophysics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden (Erik Lindahl's lab). I got my bachelor's and master's in Engineering Physics at the same university, but did my 6-month master's thesis project at Stanford University, USA (Michael Levitt's lab). Alongside my master's studies I also worked as a support engineer at the HPC center in Stockholm, where we currently have the fastest supercomputer in Scandinavia (a Cray XC40).

My research is focused on understanding the motions of biomolecules in computer simulations, and so far I have focused on methods to speed up the running time in one way or another. I have worked on coarse-grained simulations (elastic network models, eBDIMS), multi-resolution simulation methods (Molten-Zone molecular dynamics) and now I'm focusing on Markov state models as a way to reach conclusions from molecular dynamics simulations faster (essentially coarse-graining in the time domain).

At IHPCSS I hope to learn more about especially GPU programming and memory/data management in HPC applications as the Markov state models require huge amounts of simulation data as input. I'm also interested in machine learning within HPC and of course I look forward to meet lots of new people!

In my free time I play the violin in a symphonic orchestra, play the piano (only for myself), read and go for long walks. I also like horses a lot and like to go riding whenever I get the chance.

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I'm Jonas and I'm a PhD-student in interdisciplinary mathematics at the Institute for Computer Engineering in Heidelberg, Germany. Before that I did my Bachelor and Master in Physics, working on numerical simulation in both. Currently I'm analyzing motion of mentally ill patients in order to detect pathological types of motion as well as investigating the requirements onto the measurement setup to achieve best reconstruction of properties from mounted sensors with as few of them as possible.

I'm looking forward to see the full variety of HPC applications of all of you at the school and improve my skills regarding parallelization and code optimization in general and how to effectively leverage that also in Python, as a significant amount of my current research is done with it.

In my free time I enjoy building infrastructure, organizing workshops, cooking and relaxing to music.

Looking forward to meeting all of you in Ostrava.

Hello everyone,

My name is Haruka Yamada and I'm a Master student at University of Tsukuba in Japan. 

My research interest is optimization of calculation procedures for tensor network methods. In this summer school, I hope to learn HPC techniques to implement the tensor network methods in parallel and distributed environments.

In my free time, I enjoy reading and playing the oboe in a symphonic orchestra.

I'm looking forward to learning HPC and meeting new people!

Hello, I am currently finishing up my postdoc working with Chris Rycroft in applied math at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard. I was previously a Ph.D. student with Charlie Peskin at the Courant Institute, NYU. I will be starting a tenure-track position at Brandeis University this fall.

I work on both modeling and simulation approaches to biological fluid-structure interaction problems. I am interested in combining analytical results from asymptotic limits of the Navier-Stokes equations, such as lubrication theory, with standard finite difference methods on uniform grids. My goal is to increase the efficiency of computations that involve moving, deformable boundaries and complex geometries, which is relevant to many problems in cell biology.

I have some experience using parallel programming on GPU's, and not much experience with more traditional clusters. Whereas I have spent my postdoc on primarily on small proof-of-concept simulations, I would like to return to high-performance computing in my new position. I am excited about the opportunity of this summer school to catch up with the state of the art and learn about recent developments and best practices in parallel computing.

I am learning to play guitar: my current favorites are Jolene by Dolly Parton and Linger by the Cranberries.

Hi,

I'm Yoshi (Yoshiyuki Sakai) from Japan, currently working as a postdoc at TU Munich in Germany.

I studied BEng in Aerospace Engineering @ Uni. Southampon & MSc. in Computational Science and Engineering @ TU Munich, before I did my PhD in Hydromechanics @ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany).

My main research interests are: numerical simulations of wall-bounded turbulent flow, coherent structure analysis and HPC for the CFD application.

During this summer school, I'm looking forward to learning more about heterogeneous computing techniques.

My favourite free-time activities are: cooking, practicing my fountain pen writing skill, smoking pipes, riding motorcycle and doing maintenance on my hobby gadgets.

Looking forward to hanging out with you!

Yoshi

Hello World,

I'm Saad. I am pursuing Erasmus Mundus Double Masters in Dependable Software Systems from the University of St. Andrews, UK and the National University of Ireland Maynooth. 

Before joining masters, I have completed Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Pune, India. Also, I have worked as a Research Associate under Dr. Vijay Bhatkar (HaPC Scientist), for the term of 1 Year.

Currently, I am studying the Implication of  (IPA) Intelligent Personal Assistant on different computer architecture. So far, I have done some amount of research work on ICHEC (Irish Centre of High-End Computing)'s Fionn Supercomputer in IPA Suite.

From IHPCSS2018, I am expecting to get insight details on how to build a career in  HPC field, to learn HPC from the experts and to meet Summer School participants.

In my free time, I love exploring new gadgets, listening to music, travelling and exploring new places. 

Hi,

I'm a PhD Student for Astrophysics in a small private institute in Heidelberg, Germany. I work on hydrodynamical simulations of stellar interiors applying our self-developed implicit time stepping hydro-code SLH. One of the main challenging aspects is to solve a large system of coupled non-linear equations. To cover a reasonable amount of physical time in multi-dimensional simulations we highly rely on HPC facilities.

Our code is already parallelized so I rarely have to directly deal with the underlying techniques during my every day work. However, understanding the principle methods is important for me to maintain and improve the code. During the summer school I hope to get some deeper knowledge on the different aspects of parallel programming.

In my free time I like to play to guitar. I love to have some beer with friends and colleagues and I hope to do so also in Ostrava!

Hello all,

I'm Soham, from India. I’m currently pursuing my Ph.D. in physics at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. My main research interests are in numerical relativity and gravitational physics, though I’ve also strayed into social network analysis in the context of ecology. I have worked on modelling not-so-efficient waveform models for LIGO searches for my Master’s, and building initial data for charged binary black hole (the ones you don’t expect to hear from) simulations thereafter. Currently, I’m working on developing numerical relativity using a spacetime method, which, in principle, should help speed things up—we’ll see.

I’m excited to meet people with different computational backgrounds at the summer school and share notes on the research problems they’re working on, the roadblocks, and the possible solutions they are/or plan on investigating. I’m also looking forward to learning about debugging parallel codes (keen on moving beyond print statements) and analyzing parallel performance.

I usually enjoy swimming, long nature walks, conversations and sarcasm.

Looking forward to meeting you all at the school next week!

Soham

Hello,

I am Tiago from Brazil and I am now a third year PhD student of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands).

I have a bachelor's and master's degree in mechanical engineering. I started my studies back home at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil. Shortly after I received my bachelor's degree, I moved to Germany, where I obtained a master's degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

I am mostly interested in turbulent flows, especially those that can be studied in very simplified configurations with the aid of numerical methods and HPC. 

This summer I would like to learn how to profile parallel codes and identify performance bottlenecks. Besides that I am also interested in code optimization and scientific visualization.

I enjoy listening to good music and practicing/watching sports, mainly tennis and football (the real one ;) ). I also enjoy trying out different cuisine and learning about different cultures.

See you soon,

Tiago

Hi all,

My name is Kevin. I am a PhD student at the University of Ottawa, Canada. I am currently writing to you from the Argonne National Laboratory, just outside Chicago, Illinois. I have been visiting since early May and will be here until mid-August. Here, I am learning about electron transport through two-dimensional materials. 

My overall research is applying modern optimization techniques like deep neural networks and genetic algorithms to applications in condensed matter physics / materials science. This includes trying to bypass equations with deep neural networks, or using these techniques for inverse design of a material with a certain property. Some of which I will discuss with you in the posters sessions. 

I have worked with highly-parrallelizable codes in the past, have taken courses on HPC, and have written parallel codes myself using a variety of techniques. In saying that, there is always more to learn! 

Other than staring at a computer screen all day, I also enjoy hiking, working out, hockey (classic Canadian), and cooking with friends.

See you all soon,

Kevin 

Hi all,

My name is Koki Masui, and I'm a Ph.D student of Nagoya University in Japan.

My study is electromagnetic field analysis using high precision calculation. In this summer school, I would like to learn the method of efficient parallelization. Although I'm little nervous about this, I'm very looking forward to seeing and talking with you!

My hobby is many kinds of sports(e.g. baseball, basketball, and volleyball) and video games(e.g. music games, and puzzle games).

Hi all,

My name is shumaila Majeed. I am PhD student in TU Dortmund, Germany. My research area is ''Parallelization and Optimization  of algorithms for the design of Photonics devices''. Beam propagation method is thesimulation tool for the Photonics devices. I am working on the beam propagation method. In case of 3D simulation the method is very time consuming. In order to make the numerical method for the design of Photonics devices time efficient, parallelization of the method is the good. The method can be Parallelized by using simple matrix calculation or by using multi core processor or by the use of GPU.  

Other than my research area, i like listening music and outdoor activities. 

Hi, I'm Oleksandr. I received my MSc degree from the University of Glasgow and currently I'm a second year PhD student at the same University. My PhD project is a collaboration between School of Engineering and School of Botany in terms of which I study how wind is influencing plants and how plants in turn adapt to wind conditions. As a research tool I widely use open source and commercial CFD solvers. During the summer school I would like to deepen my knowledge of HPC, learn more about parallelisation, scientific visualisation and discover how HPC is used for research in other fields.

In my free time I like to read books, watch movies and travel.

Looking forward to meet you all in Ostrava.

Hi everyone,

I am Qian Liu and I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. My research fields are labor economics and applied econometrics. I am currently working on studying the effects of parental transfers and student loans policy on human capital investment. I have been using HPC techniques to estimate my model and I am looking forward to learn more from you at this summer school. 

In my free time (if I have any), I enjoy workouts, mostly cardio like zumba and kickboxing, music, and watching movies.

Looking forward to see you soon in Ostrava,

Qian

Hi everyone, 

I'm currently a physics PhD student at North Carolina State University, USA. My research is broadly in the field of nuclear astrophysics. I'm very interested in how matter behaves in extreme astrophysical scenarios, such as core-collapse supernovae and compact object mergers. My new project is focussed on neutron star mergers and I will be using the Einstein Toolkit for my simulations. 

Before moving to the US in 2013 for graduate school, I obtained a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering from PES Institute of Technology, India. 

My interest is HPC is a natural outgrowth of my desire to understand some very complex, non-linear systems and so, through this summer school, I'm hoping to learn both how to get the most out of the machines I'm currently using (or planning to use), and how to push the limits of what we can do with respect to scientific computing.

I enjoy reading fiction and poetry, running, hiking, and painting! See you all soon in Ostrava! 

Hello Everyone.

My name is Yoshiki Mizuno. I am a graduate student at the school of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. I obtained my B.A. from the University of California Berkeley, and I started to major in computational mechanics at the graduate school after going back to my home country, Japan. I have been designing load balancing algorithms for a fluid-analysis system and planning to focus on research related to data assimilation from the next year. In the summer school, I am especially looking forward to meeting students and researchers who study similar subjects!

Hello, my name is Shigeo Hakkaku, from Japan.

I am a Ph.D. student in physics at Kyoto University in Japan. I obtained my B.S degree in physics from Chiba University and M.S degree in physics from Kyoto University.

My main research interest is the quantum computation, especially the classically simulation of quantum circuits since last April. In the master's course, my research interest was open quantum systems.

By atteding this summer school, I would like to learn basic and intermediate HPC techniques to be applied to my research practically.

My hobbies are sleeping, reading, running, and brewing coffee.

I am looking forward to know studies in different fields and meet new people!

Hello!

I'm Alex, a Materials Science Ph.D. candidate at Laurentian University in the untamed land of northern Ontario, Canada. 

At the moment I am researching the thermal properties (thermal conductivity in particular) of silicon nanostructures, notably nanowires and phononic crystals. I primarily use an already developed software for molecular dynamics simulations, and also dabble in LAMMPS as a secondary simulation tool.

I obtained my B.Sc. in Physics at Laurentian, where I spent a lot of time working on a dark matter search experiment.

My goal at IHPCSS is to learn more about the fundamentals of high performance computing, as well as to hopefully learn some new, modern data visualization techniques and python programming.

In my free time, I am an avid martial artist, cook and baker, and spend a lot of time playing and designing board games. I am also trying to learn how to sketch and draw.

Hello everyone! My name is Gabriel Casabona. I earned my BS in Physics from Florida International University and am currently attaining a MS in Physics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. After finishing my degree here I plan on attaining my PhD in Physics elsewhere.

My current research is in high energy astrophysics, looking at detonation models for Type Ia supernovae. My group is looking into the scenario where two white dwarfs merge, creating a highly turbulent setting, which may lead to detonation. In our upcoming paper, we describe what we believe to be a more physically reasonable mechanism for Type Ia SNe than what has previously been shown in literature.

Our work is heavily dependent on HPC. We utilize the FLASH hydrodynamics code to solve for the physical phenomenon in question, with the computer cluster STAMPEDE2, to generate 3 dimensional simulations of detonation. My goal for this workshop is to meet like minded individuals to gain motivation in my own work and to learn new techniques in HPC to utilize in my current and future research. 

In my free time I enjoy watching movies, everything comic book related, traveling and power lifting.

Hi all,

My name is Rachel, and I am a PhD candidate in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory in Tucson, AZ (in the southwestern US).  I have undergraduate degrees in physics and astronomy from the University of Wyoming.  During my time there, I became fascinated with binary stars-- two stars that orbit a common gravitational center-- and I have continued my work on these objects in graduate school.  However, I became tired (figuratively and literally) of staying up all night as an observer, so I decided to pursue a more theoretical perspective in my graduate school research.  I study circumbinary planet dynamics (the gravitational interactions between planets and the binary stars they orbit) using embarrassingly parallel N-body simulations and binary star formation using adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamical simulations.  My current research focuses on analyzing our simulations of star forming regions to characterize observable properties of overdensities in the gas that will eventually form single or binary stars.

I look forward to this summer school for a variety of reasons. As many have said before, I am excited to gain hands on experience in new HPC techniques that will help me optimize my own research.  I also want to see the data analysis and HPC methods that other fields are using to gain inspiration for my own research and field.  And selfishly, I'm eager to escape the desert heat here in Tucson for a short while!

My name is Toshihiro from Japan, and I am a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. I received my B.S degree in Mechanical Engineering from the same. My research interest is numerical simulation on high speed fluid dynamics. In this simulation, since it is needed to consider phenomena such as turbulence and chemical reaction, the computational cost is large, so it is required to perform the parallel computation using OpenMP and MPI. In this summer school, I hope to acquire the programming skill about HPC.

My hobby is to see a movie at a theater and climb a mountain.

I’m looking forward to meeting all of you.

Hey,

Mayanka Chandra Shekar here. I am currently working on my 4th year of Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Computer Science and Telecommunication Networking. My lab partner, Rohithkumar Nagulapati is accompanying me to the Summer School. He is in his 2nd year of the same program.

Both of us are intensively working on Big Data Technologies. We are interested in using the Big Data Technologies and Learning Mechanisms (Machine Learning & Deep Learning) in Field of Socio-Cognitive Robotics. We have tried out parallel computing in learning mechanism using Apache Spark and Tensorflow. We are excited to learn the internal parallelism through this Summer School.

We are thrilled to see the mixture of fields in IHPCSS. Looking forward to getting to know you and your research. 

Regards,

Mayanka & Rohith

Hi, my name is William and I am completing my fourth year in the Computational Science and Informatics PhD program at George Mason University in Virginia, USA. 

My coursework has been focused in computational learning and computational statistics. This is to support my research interests in working with multi domain data and data fusion of high dimensional data. I need to work with large text corpora and images, on the order of terabytes, which requires the use of multiple computing nodes as well as gpu processors.  I am looking forward to getting a better understanding of the MPI libraries and how to employ multiple nodes in my work both with and without gpu accelerators.

My hobbies include cooking on the grill with charcoal, keeping up with my overall health as a result of a recent change in my diet, and visiting historic locations around the world.

Hey there,

my name is Petr and I come from the Czech Republic. I'm currently doing a PhD in computational physics at the Czech Technical University in Prague and the ELI-Beamlines laser facility. I'm studying the interaction of laser pulses with matter through numerical simulations. These simulations are quite computationally demanding, so one needs to run them on computer clusters.

In this summer school, I'd like to learn more about efficient methods for processing and visualization of large datasets coming from the simulations.

I like travelling and discovering new cultures, meeting people and exchanging ideas with them. I like to play football as well.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Ostrava

Hi all,

My name is Taufiq from Indonesia. Currently, I'm doing a doctoral course in applied informatics at Systems Science Department, Kyoto University, Japan. My research related with particle tracking in High Energy Physics experiment and I'm studying the parallelization of solver used in the tracking system.

In this summer school, I hope I can learn the best practices from the expert and exchanging ideas with other people. 

See you all in Ostrava

My name is Elisa and I came from a very small village on the lake, close to Milan, in Italy.
Even if I chose the most humanities-centered high school in Italy, I have always been fascinated by nature and its order.
For this, after high school, I turned to science and I got both my bachelor degree (Physics) and my master (Astrophysics and Space Physics) at the University of Milano Bicocca.
I'm now a final-year PhD student in Astronomy at the University of Padova, and from November I will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Zurich.

My work focuses on the complex physics of galactic nuclei, where supermassive black holes reside.
In particular, I use advanced numerical techniques (e.g direct summation N-body simulations, grid codes, regularized simulations) to investigate the dynamics of stars and gas in the vicinity of a single or even binary supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei.
My work is important to understand which gravitational wave sources we will be observing in 2030s with the space-based LISA observatory.

I believe this sumer school would be a great opportunity to learn about a number of things abut HPC I always wanted to explore, as programming for GPUs, cython, and visualization in data science.
I also think it would be a great place to make connections and exchange ideas with people in science and computing.

When I am not working, I really enjoy travelling, hiking and visiting natural places in general.
I love poetry and I like reading, even if the time for doing it is never enough. Another great passion of mine is music, from classical to 60s/70s rock to italian singer-songwriters.

Hello, my name is Wataru Endo. I am a PhD student at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Japan. I have got both bachelor's and master's degrees from the same university.

My research topic is developing HPC system software to improve the application productivity. I am interested in shared-memory & task-parallel programming styles. So far, I have been developing a distributed shared memory library and a communication library that work on CPU clusters.

In this summer school, I would like to enhance my knowledge about the applications of HPC. I'm also going to learn programming on GPU or other architectures which I rarely use.

My hobbies are playing video games, reading comics, watching live performance and so on.

I'm looking forward to meeting everyone!

Hi all, 

My name is Meredith and I'm currently ending my 3rd year as a PhD student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, USA. I completed my undergraduate studies at Penn State in meteorology. 

My research focuses on atmospheric river events that occur in quick succession of one another. Utilizing regional and global climate models for coupled and uncoupled simulations I am evaluating the dynamics of these events, assessing their predictability and understanding how the ocean influences boundary layer properties. 

After learning some HPC techniques out of necessity for research, I am looking forward to increasing my efficiency and learning some new tools. 

When I'm not working on my computer, I like to be outside, hiking, running, or swimming. I practice yoga and love to travel, explore new places and cook. 

Looking forward to meeting you all in Ostrava!

Hi everyone,

I'm Sarah, now in my 3rd year of a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Wuppertal in Germany.  I'm originally from (approximately) Vancouver, Canada, and did my Bachelors (Math) and Masters (Computer Science) at the University of British Columbia.

My research interests include eigenvalue problems, and my doctoral work so far has focused on developing scalable eigensolvers for large, sparse interior eigenproblems.  My studies up to my doctoral degree were less focused on HPC, and though I've learned a lot so far, I'm looking forward to filling in some of the gaps in my knowledge as well as learning about the best practices and latest advances in this field.  I'm also looking forward to meeting others involved in HPC.

My main hobby is distance running, but I also love biking, hiking and traveling.

Hi all,

I am Bobby and doing my PhD at Technical University of Munich (Germany). 

My research topic is HPC for coupling 3D Non-Hydrostatic and 2D (Non-Hydrostatic) Shallow Water Equations for flood simulations and its visualisations.

I do not have any hobby, just try enjoying my life.

It must be great meeting you all in Ostrava!

Best wishes from Munich,

Bobby 

Hello Everyone,

I am Nishan and I am  a second year Ph.D. student in applied statistics at the University of Guelph in Canada. My research involves studying various classes of statistical models over higher dimensional surfaces (like the hyper-sphere and manifolds). These models are particularly useful in studying axial data. I am also involved with the barcode of life project at the centre for biodiversity (CBG) genomics at the University of Guelph where we use HPC for clustering and classifying samples that are sent for analysis.

Just like Melanie, I'm also quite new to working with HPC. At this summer school, I hope to improve my skills and knowledge with high performance computing and then apply the knowledge acquired on current and future projects at the CBG as well as my own research. I am also looking forward to meeting people with diverse backgrounds who have a common interest of working with HPC.

In my free time, I like to watch movies and go running outdoors.

Take care and see you soon in Ostrava.

-Nishan

Hi everyone,

My name is Paul and I'm a PhD candidate at the Chair of Scientific Computing in Munich. I have a Bachelor in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, which I obtained in my hometown in native Romania. I got my M.Sc. in Munich by attending the Computational Science and Engineering program and I continued in the same field with this PhD.

My work deals with HPC-aware data structures and algorithms for machine learning (specifically data mining) and other nice applications of sparse grids, which are a family of discretization techniques for high-dimensional problems. I also like to combine some aspects of uncertainty quantification into my topic whenever I can. 

I hope to meet a lot of interesting people in this summer school, share some of our experiences with HPC, learn interesting things, maybe get ideas on future research and even set up some possible work collaborations.

When I'm not staring at a screen for my PhD, I'm dividing my remaining time between a lot of hobbies, like singing, playing guitar, biking, hiking, playing chess, going to pub quizzes, solving puzzles, going to the movies, or (as I'm still an engineer at heart) tinkering on some mechanical or electrical devices. 

Wish you all a safe trip and I'll see everyone soon in Ostrava!

Hi,

I'm Attila from the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary. I've just finished my MSc in Computer Engineering and starting my PhD there.

My research is focused on improving the parallelisation of codes using structured and unstructured meshes (using only CUDA and a little bit of MPI so far). We used a DSL to provide a parallelisation framework for non-HPC users.

At IHPCSS, I hope to learn about the other technologies, methods, tricks and tips of HPC.

In my free time, I enjoy reading, playing the piano and playing tennis.

Hi,

Hallo everyone!

My name is Manuel and I'm the short-term replacement for a last-minute cancellation ;)

I'm a PhD student in theoretical physics from the University of Würzburg in Germany (northern part of Bavaria) where I work on phase transitions in classical equilibrium and non-equilibrium system in the field of statistical mechanics. Prominent examples are magnetic systems (Ising, Heisenberg) or simple models of epidemic spreading (contact process, directed percolation). I investigate those systems in non-standard settings, in particular in the presence of quenched disorder. A typical question would be: Are the properties of the phase transition of a specific model changed when the system is placed on a disordered spatial lattice instead of a regular one? 

In my studies I almost exclusively rely on large-scale numerical Monte-Carlo simulations. Since different physical systems require different simulation techniques, I usually write my own simulation code from scratch. In particluar I use C++ and MPI for performance-critical code and Python for data analysis and visualization. As already mentioned, I focus on spatially disordered systems, so during my studies I also got more and more in touch with aspects of graph theory lately (such as, e.g, connectivity analysis, cluster statistics or shortest path calculations)

I'm very interested in various aspects of the workshop, in particular code optimization, profiling, as well as workflow and software engeenering apsects.

In my free time I play and teach basketball, watch movies or play music in the some minor band projects with friends. Moreover, I really enjoy taking photos with some camera equipment I got myself over the years, especially sports, architecture and portraits.

Looking forward to the time in Ostrava!

Hello everyone,

Hope all are you fine. I am asad anees, and did my M.Sc from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. I am working in the scientific project "Space Time parallel finite element method for nonlinear model in electromagnetic and Optics at Technology University of Clausthal, Germany.

My hobbies are traveling, cooking, and reading newspapers. After my graduation I will join Lawrence Livermore national Lab (LLNL), ARL (U.S army research lab)or IBM.

Excited to meet you all tomorrow!

Best wishes

Hello everyone,

My name is Shang Zhang, and I'm a Ph.D. student from Department of Physics, University of Michigan. I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan now. Before coming to Ann Arbor, I finished my bachelor in physics from Nankai University in China.

My research area includes soft condensed matter physics and statistical physics, and I code in most of my research projects. I'm new to parallel computing, and I hope I can learn a lot more in this field from the summer school, as well as, which is even more important in Ostrava, get to know you guys, the interesting people all around the world who have similar interests in HPC.

In my spare time, I love watching movies and go traveling. What's more, I watch soccer games a lot, so it's even crazy for me this month (yes, the World Cup!!!).

Looking forward to meeting you guys.

Shang

Hi, I am Takuma. I am a PhD student from Keio University in Japan. I currently work on nucleation studies on anisotropic fluids using a large-scale molecular dynamics simulation, and have a small amount of experiences in OpenMP, MPI and CUDA.

I lived in London for 3 months and Geneva for 6 months. Donc je parle francais un peu, mais J'ai presque oublié en pratique. I love drinking beer and would like to try some good stuff with you.

Look forward to seeing you soon in Ostrava!

Hello.

I'm Osamu Ishimura. I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Univerity of Tokyo, Japan. My current research target is DSL platforms on HPC systems. My main purpose to join IHPCSS is to meet researchers in various fields related to HPC.   My hobby is a japanese tea ceremony. If you are interesting in them. Feel free to talk with me.

I'm very looking forward to meeting you

Hi!

After completing an MSc in physics at the Technical University of Munich, I'm currently doing my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching. My group uses Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer to study the Reinozation of the Universe. My focus specifically lies on the impact of cosmic dust on Reinozation. So if you'd like to know more about stardust, feel free to ask .

Hello Everyone, 

I am Albert Kahira, currently doing my PhD in Computer Architecture at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). I was born and raised in Kenya, did my BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering in Turkey before moving to Spain in 2017. My PhD is about Resilience and Robustness of next Generation Intelligent Systems where I study resilience and fault tolerance of Machine Learning Workflows.  I am also interested in HPC for AI and computer architecture in general. 

I am hoping to learn more about HPC from this summer school, meet other PhD students and researchers with similar interests and hopefully establish some collaborations. 

Outside PhD, I enjoy travelling, hiking, swimming and currently trying to add morning runs to my routine. I also enjoy cooking. 

Hi, I’m Jingwei. I’m a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado. My research is in the area of Machine Learning using PCA, LDA in parallel sense.

Attending the summer school, I hope to learn more about how to parallelize code. I also hope to meet researchers and HPC experts from all over the world and learn more about their research. I enjoy outdoors activities such as hiking,  badminton or table tennis.

Hey, I am Jingwei. I received a B.S. in Math and Applied Math and two M.S. in Applied Math and Computer Science. Currently I'm a Ph.D student in Computer Science. My research interests lie in the area of high-dimensional data analysis, numerical methods, and parallel computing. I'm trying to use parallel techniques in machine learning application. In spare time, I like Chinese calligraphy so much.

Hello, 

I am missing my MacBook Pro charger and convertor.  I had it on Tuesday at the poster session but discovered I did not have it on Wednesday. I am not sure where I may have misplaced it. If anyone has found an extra please let me know. Send me an email at tnbernard@utexas.edu. 

Thanks, 

Tess