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    SCA/HPCAsia 2026

    HANAMI will host an invited session at SCAsia titled “HANAMI – bridging Europe & Japan through high-performance computing”

     

    This session will highlight joint scientific projects led by European and Japanese teams and provide insights into the future direction of EU-Japan collaboration in HPC.

     

     

    Agenda for 27th January

     

    11:30-11:40 Welcome by France Boillod-Cerneuxm (CEA, France) and Kengo Nakajima (UTokyo/RIKEN, Japan) 

     

    11:40-12:00 EU-Japan Digital Partnership – Perspective from the Japan with Kiyoshi Kurihara (MEXT, Japan)

     

    12:00-12:20 EU-Japan Digital Partnership – Perspective from the EU with Peter Fatelnig (Delegation of the European Union to Japan, EU)

     

    12:20 – 12:40 TBA with Rafal Duczmal (EuroHPC JU Governing Board, EU)

     

    12:40 – 13:30 Lunch

     

    13:30 – 13:50 Elucidating Biomolecular Conformational Dynamics through Cyro-EM and High-Performance Computing with Florence Tama (RIKEN/Nagoya University, Japan)

     

    13:50 – 14:10 TBA with Erik Lindahl (KTH, Sweden)

     

    14:10 – 14:30 Leveraging Deep-learning and Large Language Model (LLM)-Inspired Architectures to Analyze Tabular Health Data by Edouard Audit (CEA, France)

     

    14:30 – 14:50 HPC for Climate Modelling: Challenges and Opportunities at Exascale and Beyond with Mario Acosta (BSC, Spain)

     

    14:50 – 15:30 Break

     

    15:30 – 15:50 Multiscale Cloud Microphysics Modelling from Aerosols to Convection with the Super-Droplet Method with Shin-Ichiro Shima (University of Hyogo, Japan)

     

    15:50 – 16:10 Collaborations on Materials Science Towards FungakuNEXT with William Dawson (RIKEN, Japan)

     

    16:10 – 16:30 Advancing HPC-Driven Materials-Science Simulations through European-Japanese Collaboration in HANAMI with Daniele Varsano (CSR, Italy)

     

    16:30 – 16:40 Closing by France Boillod-Cerneuxm (CEA, France) and Kengo Nakajima (UTokyo/RIKEN, Japan) 

     

     

    Registration

     

    Participation requires registration for SC Asia 2026.

     

    Please note that access to the HANAMI invited session is included with a conference pass.

     

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