Events
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Start:
2026/01/26
End:
2026/01/29
Location:
Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka, Japan
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.
- – Conference website: https://www.sca-hpcasia2026.jp/
- – Programme details: https://www.sca-hpcasia2026.jp/program.html#day-0127
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