Timetable

Workshop Tutorial
Time Salon ABC Rock Salon D Mississippi Illinois Salon EFG
08:00 - 08:30 Registration opens*
08:30 - 09:30 Global Research Platform Workshop (6GRP) Workshop on AI Principles in Science Communication (Ai4SC'25) Large-scale Workflow Provenance Data Management in the AI Lifecycle using Flowcept
Amal Gueroudji, Renan Souza, Daniel Rosendo, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Matthieu Dorier		 Julia for performance-portable High-Performance Computing via JACC
Philip W. Fackler, Steven E. Hahn, Pedro Valero-Lara		 Workshop on Harmonizing Python Workflows (HARMONY)
09:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 Global Research Platform Workshop (6GRP) Workshop on AI Principles in Science Communication (Ai4SC'25) Large-scale Workflow Provenance Data Management in the AI Lifecycle using Flowcept Julia for performance-portable High-Performance Computing via JACC Workshop on Harmonizing Python Workflows (HARMONY)
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH (Atrium Sky Lobby, hotel level)
13:30 - 14:30 Global Research Platform Workshop (6GRP) Workshop on Reproducible Workflows, Data Management, and Security (ReWorDS'25) Workshop on AI Principles in Science Communication (Ai4SC'25) Building scalable solutions for hybrid QC-HPC workloads on the cloud
Tyler Takeshita, Benchen Huang, Sebastian Stern		 Advanced Data Science Techniques Using GPUs: A Practical Tutorial
Didier Barradas-Bautista, Abdelghafur Halimi		 Workshop on Harmonizing Python Workflows (HARMONY)
14:30 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:00 BREAK
16:00 - 17:30 Global Research Platform Workshop (6GRP) Workshop on Reproducible Workflows, Data Management, and Security (ReWorDS'25) Workshop on AI Principles in Science Communication (Ai4SC'25) Building scalable solutions for hybrid QC-HPC workloads on the cloud Advanced Data Science Techniques Using GPUs: A Practical Tutorial Workshop on Harmonizing Python Workflows (HARMONY)
* Registration desk will be open from 8:00am - 5:30pm.
Workshop Tutorial Main Conference
Time Salon ABCD Salon EFG Rock River Mississippi
08:00 - 08:30 Registration opens*
08:30 - 10:30 Global Research Platform Workshop (6GRP) Wins, Fails, and Breakthroughs: How to Increase Your Influence and Facilitate Effective Collaboration in eScience Projects and Partnerships (WFB) Reproducible Benchmarking for High-Performance Computing Applications
Olga Pearce, Doug Jacobsen, Gregory Becker, Stephanie Brink, Ian Lumsden		 AI Workflows using ACCESS Pegasus
Karan Vahi, Mats Rynge
09:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 Global Research Platform Workshop (6GRP) Wins, Fails, and Breakthroughs: How to Increase Your Influence and Facilitate Effective Collaboration in eScience Projects and Partnerships (WFB) Reproducible Benchmarking for High-Performance Computing Applications
Olga Pearce, Doug Jacobsen, Gregory Becker, Stephanie Brink, Ian Lumsden		 AI Workflows using ACCESS Pegasus
Karan Vahi, Mats Rynge
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH (Atrium Sky Lobby, hotel level)
13:30 - 14:30 Anna Liljedahl Keynote: Anna Liljedahl
Empowering our society in managing permafrost thaw hazards
Chair: Daniel S. Katz
14:30 - 15:30 Best Papers Session 1
Chair: Daniel S. Katz
  • Efficient Privacy-Preserving Recommendation on Sparse Data using Fully Homomorphic Encryption
    Moontaha Nishat Chowdhury, Andre Bauer and Minxuan Zhou
  • Intuitive Computational Steering Using Ascent and Trame
    Thomas Marrinan, Andres Sewell, Victor Mateevitsi, Steve Petruzza, Jifu Tan, Dimitrios Fytanidis and Michael Papka
15:30 - 16:00 BREAK
16:00 - 17:30 Best Papers Session 2
Chair: Pengyin Shan
  • Dreaming Up Novel Quantum Dyes using Inverse Machine Learning in MatFlow
    Mahib Ornob, Lan Li and Hasan Jamil
  • Steering an Active Learning Workflow Towards Novel Materials Discovery via Queue Prioritization
    Marcus Schwarting, Logan Ward, Nathaniel Hudson, Xiaoli Yan, Ben Blaiszik, Santanu Chaudhuri, Eliu Huerta and Ian Foster
  • Optimizing Federated Learning for Scalable Power-demand Forecasting in Microgrids
    Roopkatha Banerjee, Sampath Koti, Gyanendra Singh, Anirban Chakraborty, Gurunath Gurrala, Bhushan Jagyasi and Yogesh Simmhan
17:30 - 18:00 BREAK
18:00 - 20:00 Posters & Reception (Salon Ballroom Foyer)
* Registration desk will be open from 8:00am - 5:30pm.
Main Conference
Time Salon ABCD Salon EFG
08:30 - 09:00 Registration opens*
09:00 - 10:00 Samuel Kounev Keynote: Samuel Kounev
Serverless Scientific Workflow Engineering for Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Observation and Computational Ecology
Chair: Andre Bauer
10:00 - 10:30 BREAK
10:30 - 12:30 Applications 1
Chair: Paul Watson
  • Science-Informed Multitask Transformer for Soil Property Prediction from FTIR Spectroscopy
    Andrei Bachinin, Rupasree Dey, Paahuni Khandelwal, Sam Leuthold, M. Francesca Cotrufo, Shrideep Pallickara and Sangmi Lee Pallickara
  • Towards Provenance-Aware Earth Observation Workflows: the openEO Case Study
    Hamid Omidi, Ludovica Sacco, Valentina Hutter, Gerald Irsiegler, Michele Claus, Martin Schobben, Alexander Jacob, Matthias Schramm and Sandro Luigi Fiore
  • Accelerating Weather Forecasting: A Neural Network-Based Emulation of ISORROPIA
    Georgios Evangelopoulos, Gholamali Hoshyaripour, Jörg Meyer, Pankaj Kumar, Julia Bruckert and Achim Streit
  • Modeling Remote Sensing Data Relationships with Spatiotemporal Knowledge Graphs
    Isaac Nealey and Ilkay Altintas
  • GEOtiled-SG: A Scalable Framework for High-Resolution Terrain Parameter Computation
    Gabriel Laboy, Ian Lumsden, Paula Olaya, Jack Marquez, Kin Wai Ng, Rodrigo Vargas and Michela Taufer
 Infrastructure 1
Chair: Rosa Filgueira
  • EventSetProcessor: An Engine for Efficiently Combining High-Energy Physics Data
    Florine Willemijn de Geus, Vincenzo Eduardo Padulano, Jakob Blomer, Hannes Mühleisen and Ana-Lucia Varbanescu
  • SCALPEL: Structured Content Access Logging and Pruning for Efficient Layouts
    Raffay Atiq, Ashish Gehani, Tanu Malik and Fareed Zaffar
  • Towards Machine-actionable FAIR Digital Objects with a Typing Model that Enables Operations
    Maximilian Inckmann, Nicolas Blumenröhr and Rossella Aversa
  • CADRE: Customizable Assurance of Data Readiness in Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
    Kaveen Hiniduma, Zilinghan Li, Aditya Sinha, Ravi Madduri and Suren Byna
  • P-RGCNs: Missing Link Prediction in Model Card Graphs through Node Property Encodings
    Krishna Priya, Sachith Withana and Beth Plale
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH (Atrium Sky Lobby, hotel level)
13:30 - 15:30 Invited Talks 1
Chair: Tainã Coleman
  • The AI Frontier: Transformative Role of Foundation Models Across Scientific Disciplines
    Ana Trisovic
  • It’s the Data Stupid
    Carl Kesselman
  • RSEs 2035: Surviving or Thriving in the Age of AI
    Sandra Gesing
  • Workflows at Exascale: Herding Compute Power for Complex Applications
    Justin Wozniak
  • Integrating a new Paradigm: Artificial Intelligence in Data-Intensive Applications
    Benedikt Riedel
 Workflow
Chair: Raffaele Montella
  • Supporting FAIR Scientific Workflows with the JGI Analysis Workflow Service (JAWS)
    Daniela Cassol, Alicia Clum, Jeff Froula, Ed Kirton, Ramani Kothadia, Mario Melara, Elais Player-Jackson, Setareh Sarrafan, Seung-Jin Sul, Stephan Trong, Nick Tyler, Tomas Bruna, Leo Baumgart and Kjiersten Fagnan
  • Reinventing CI/CD for Collaborative Sciences: A Blockchain-Integrated Decentralized Middleware for Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Workflows
    Amena Begum Farha, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Gagan Agrawal and Ahmed Aleroud
  • The FISHNET Case Study on Implementing and Scaling a Complex Earth Observation Workflow
    Lorenz Gruber, Nikolas Herbst, Thomas Esch, Thanh Nguyen, Peter Friedl and Samuel Kounev
  • Backpacks for Notebooks: Enabling Containerized Notebook Workflows in Distributed Environments
    Md Saiful Islam, Talha Azaz, Raza Ahmad, A S M Shahadat Hossain, Furqan Baig, Shaowen Wang, Kevin Lannon, Tanu Malik and Douglas Thain
  • Liberating the Data Aware Scheduler to Achieve Locality in Layered Scientific Workflow Systems
    Colin Thomas and Douglas Thain
15:30 - 16:00 BREAK
16:00 - 17:30 Panel: Future of AI in eScience
Daniel S. Katz, Carl Kesselman, Tanu Malik, Mike Papka, Kyle Chard (moderator)
17:30 - 18:00 BREAK
18:15 - 21:30 Conference Dinner & Awards
Spirit of Navy Pier: Escapade Deck
Navy Pier - 600 East Grand Ave. Chicago IL
Boarding 18:15pm, Departs 19:00pm, Returns 21:30pm
* Registration desk will be open from 8:30am - 5:30pm.
Main Conference
Time Salon ABCD Salon EFG
08:30 - 09:00 Registration opens*
09:00 - 10:00 Fred Chong Keynote: Fred Chong
Quantum Computing: An Outlook for Platforms and Applications
Chair: Daniel S. Katz
10:00 - 10:30 BREAK
10:30 - 12:30 Invited Talks 2
Chair: Kyle Chard
  • Scientific Data Management Beyond Traditional Computing Boundaries
    Patrick Widener
  • AI for Science-of-Science: From Software and Impact to Funding Ecosystems
    Rosa Filgueira
  • Leveraging High Performance Computing and AI to Advance Biomedical Discovery
    Ravi Madduri
  • Autonomous decision-making to power next-generation scientific experiments
    Stephen DeWitt
  • Sponsor talk: Leveraging the Open Science Operating System to build virtual environments for science and education
    SGX3/SDSC (Sandra Gesing)
 Infrastructure 2
Chair: Steven Brandt
  • From Data to Decision: Data-Centric Infrastructure for Reproducible ML in Collaborative eScience
    Zhiwei Li, Carl Kesselman, Tran Huy Nguyen, Benjamin Xu, Kyle Bolo and Kimberley Yu
  • Diamond: Harnessing GPU Resources for Scientific Deep Learning
    Haotian Xie, Rohan Marwaha, Minu Mathew, Song Bian, Gengcong Yang, Minghao Yan, Yadu Babuji, Owen Price, Yinzhi Wang, Volodymyr Kindratenko, Shivaram Venkataraman, Kyle Chard, Ian Foster and Zhao Zhang
  • Optimizing Deep Reinforcement Learning Configurations for Single Object Tracking
    Hy Nguyen, Srikanth Thudumu, Hung Du, Rajesh Vasa and Kon Mouzakis
  • Tuning the Tuner: Introducing Hyperparameter Optimization for Auto-Tuning
    Floris-Jan Willemsen, Rob van Nieuwpoort and Ben van Werkhoven
  • Institutional Research Computing Capabilities in Australia: 2024
    Slava Kitaeff, Luc Betbeder-Matibet, Jake Carroll, Stephen Giugni, David Abramson, John Zaitseff, Sarah Walters, David Powell, Chris Bording, Trung Nguyen, Angus Macoustra, Fabien Voisin, Bowen Chen, Jarrod Hurley
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH (Atrium Sky Lobby, hotel level)
13:30 - 15:10 Performance
Chair: Tanu Malik
  • Locks Must Die: Composable Mutual Exclusion Implemented by Dynamic Resource Sharing on Task Graphs
    Max Morris, Steven R. Brandt and Hartmut Kaiser
  • Enabling Scientific Applications with Performance-Portability and High-Productivity for Multi-GPU Programming with JACC.Multi
    Pedro Valero-Lara, William Godoy, Philip Fackler, Keita Teranishi and Jeffrey Vetter
  • BookedSlurm: meeting user needs for advanced resource reservations in Slurm
    Sandro Gepiro Contaldo, Lorenzo Bosio, Janneth Estefania Hoyos Rea, Elisa Li Perottino, Sergio Rabellino, Marco Aldinucci, Marco Beccuti and Iacopo Colonnelli
  • Parallel and Distributed Protein Processing for 3D-protein Pattern Discovery and Clustering
    Alejandro Valdés-Jiménez, Gabriel Núñez-Vivanco and Daniel Jiménez-González
 Applications 2
Chair: Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan
  • Frances++: LLM-Based Semantic Enrichment and Spatial Graphs for Digitized Historical Collections
    Lilin Yu and Rosa Filgueira
  • Leveraging Hidden Patterns in Open-Ended Health Workers' Notes to Improve Prediction of Patient Readmission
    Naveen Kumar Reddy Veeramreddy, Ankita Mishra, Navika Maglani, Sameer Shaik, Kelly McCabe, Jacob Furst, Daniela Stan Raicu, Roselyne Tchoua and Jamshid Sourati
  • Novel Perspective on Ensemble Clustering for Persistent Cluster Patterns: A Case Study in Disease Cluster Discovery
    Fernanda Cabral, Maria Alexandra Hubbard, Rudhvish Patel, Adeola Badmos, Daniela Raicu, Raj Shah and Roselyne Tchoua
  • A Novel Scientific Machine Learning Method for Epidemiological Modelling
    Tirtha Pani, Raj Abhijit Dandekar, Prathamesh Dinesh Joshi, Rajat Dandekar and Sreedath Panat
15:10 - 15:30 Closing Session
* Registration desk will be open from 8:30am - 3:30pm.