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Expositores

 

Fernando Cucchietti (Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain): Visualization.

Fernando Cucchietti

After getting his Ph. D. in quantum physics from the University of Cordoba, Argentina, Fernando Cucchietti started working as a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow in Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. He worked with Eddy Timmermans, Wojciech H. Zurek, and Juan Pablo Paz. From Los Alamos he moved to Barcelona, Spain, to work in the Institute of Photonic Sciences as a Caixa Manresa Postdoctoral Fellow with Maciej Lewenstein, Antonio Acin, and Ignacio Cirac. In 2011 he moved to a position at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center to work on combustion simulation, and shortly afterwards to lead the newly created Scientific Visualization Team.

Nicolas Pinto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA): Biological Models, Neural Networks, PyCUDA.

Nicolas Pinto is the Chief Scientist and the Chief Technology Officer of two Silicon Valley stealth startups, focusing on the development of human-level brain-inspired perception technologies and their real-time applications on low-power embedded devices. He holds two M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from France (UTBM/ENSISA, 2007), and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the USA (MIT, 2010) supported by NSF, DARPA, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and two NVIDIA Fellowships. Previously he was a graduate-level Lecturer in Computer Science at Harvard SEAS teaching Massively Parallel Computing, and a Research Scientist in Prof. Jim DiCarlo's Lab at MIT and Prof. David Cox's Lab at Harvard (2012) developing large-scale computational models of the visual cortex.

Karl Rupp (Argonne National Lab, EEUU) Heterogeneous Computing, OpenCL, PETSc.

Karl Rupp

Karl Rupp received the BSc degree in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität Wien in 2006, the MSc degree in computational mathematics from Brunel University in 2007, and the degree of Diplomingenieur in microelectronics and in technical mathematics from the Technische Universität Wien in 2009. He completed his doctoral degree on deterministic numerical solutions of the Boltzmann transport equation in 2011 and is now working as a postdoctoral appointee at the Mathematics and Computer Science Divison at the Argonne National Laboratory. His scientific interests include generative programming of discretization schemes such as the finite element method for the use in semiconductor device simulations and high-level implementations of linear algebra for modern computing hardware while preserving high performance.

Eduardo Bringa (ICB-CONICET, UNCuyo, Argentina): Molecular Dynamics in Heterogeneous Clusters.

Eduardo Bringa

Eduardo Bringa studied physics for 2 years at the "Universidad Nacional de San Luis", before moving to the "Instituto Balseiro", in Bariloche, to obtain his "Licenciatura en Fisica" in December 1994, working on atomic physics with Nestor Arista. From August 1995 to September 2001 he was at the Univesity of Virginia (UVa), where he got a Ph.D. in Physics in May 2000, working on simulations of surface modification with R.E. Johnson. After graduation, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with appointments in Astronomy and Materials Science and Engineering, focusing on astromaterials.  He moved to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)  as a postdoctoral researcher, and he was transformed into staff member in 2003 and permanent staff member in 2007. At LLNL he focused on radiation damage, shock physics and laser-materials interactions. 
During April 2008 he moved to Mendoza, Argentina, where he is currently an Independent Researcher for CONICET and Associate Professor at the "Instituto de Ciencias Basicas", "Universidad Nacional de Cuyo". 
He is interested in modeling and simulations in general, and collaborates with groups around the world on solving problems from materials science, astrophysics, biology, etc. Details on projects and publications can be found in the corresponding pages.
 

Flavio Colavecchia (Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina): MAGMA Linear Algebra for GPU and Multicore.

Flavio Colavecchia se Licenció en Física en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, obtuvo su doctorado en la especialidad en el Instituto Balseiro, Argentina, y llevó a cabo su trabajo postdoctoral en la división Física Teórica del Laboratorio Nacional de Los Alamos, EEUU. Trabaja en la aplicación de nuevas técnicas de cálculo científico a problemas de física de colisiones entre átomos, iones y moléculas, especializándose en procesamiento masivamente paralelo.  En la actualidad es Investigador Independiente del Consejo Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnicas (CONICET) y docente en la materia Métodos numéricos de las carreras de Ingeniería del Instituto Balseiro. También se desempeña como jefe de División Física Atómica, Molecular y Óptica de la Gerencia de Física del Centro Atomico Bariloche, en Río Negro, Argentina.

Alejandro Kolton (Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina): Monte Carlo methods on GPUs.

 
Alejandro B. Kolton realizó su licenciatura (1995-1999) y doctorado (1999-2003) en Física en el Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina. Realizo estancias postdoctorales en la Universidad de Ginebra, Suiza (2003-2006), y en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2006-2007), y en la Universidad de Barcelona (2010). Desde 2007 es investigador de CONICET en el Centro Atómico Bariloche. Su principal interés es la física computacional aplicada al estudio de la materia condensada: ha desarrollado algoritmos especiales para estudiar numéricamente la dinámica fuera del equilibrio de redes de vórtices en superconductores, de interfaces en materiales desordenados, y de electrones localizados en aisladores con desorden. Sus intereses también incluyen la dinámica no-lineal (caos, sincronización), y la dinamica estocastica (difusión anómala, termodinámica estocástica y rectificación). Es docente de la materia de Introduccion al calculo numerico en procesadores gráficos en el Instituto Balseiro.