HPC-SIG meeting at Queen's University, Belfast

Monday July 1st 2019

Meeting start: 10.30 am

Meeting close: 4.30pm

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Time Activity
10:00-10:30 Arrival, Registration and Coffee
10:30-10:45 Chair’s update
10:45 – 11:30 Carpentry Connect (Martian Callahagn)
11:30 – 12:00 Belfast City Deal, Project Goals and timescales (Dr. Seamus Doyle)
12:00-12:30 Networking with colleagues from the Republic of Ireland
12:30-13:30 Lunch and networking
13:30 – 14:00 ICHEC Update (Dr. Simon Wong): ICHEC Overview and the challenges of Big Data and AI / training
14:00 – 14:30 EPSRC Funded CDT In AI and Big Data: UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Advanced Computing - Impact and Objectives (Dr. Gert Aarts)
14:30 – 15:00 How are we supporting the researchers using ML - hardware and software? (Vaughn Purnell, QUB)
15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK and Networking
15:30 – 16:00 Panel session with speaks from the day: SME, AI, Infrastructure challenges – what can we do collaborative to embrace these opportunities?
16:00 – 16:15 Wrap Up / AOB / DONM
16:20 CLOSE