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AI for Science Day

 

Date: 10 April 2025

Time: 10:00-17:00

Location: Scott Logic Theatre, Department of Computer Science

 

This workshop will bring AI experts from NVIDIA, Dell and Durham together to discuss joint success stories, to identify challenge of the future, and to identify collaboration pathways and new projects. Participation is open for all Durham staff, PhD students and RSEs. Guests from other UK institutions are welcome. 

We expect the workshop to provide a platform to speak about the latest technology trends in AI and how they affect our scientific workflows, ambitions and plans. The workshop will exclusively focus on the science side, yet provide participants, if they want to, to have 1:1 conversations with NVIDIA and Dell specialists about particular technical solutions and products. Our overall intention is to offer a stage for new insight through AI but also for knowledge exchange around upcoming AI trends, computational facilities in the NE and internationally, and networking around AI technology. 

 

Registration: Please follow this link

Registration deadline: 1 April 2025

 

Agenda:

09:00 - 10:00

Registration and coffee 

(Vis Lab, MCS 1022)
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome Remarks
10:15 - 10:45 Andy Grant: NVIDIA Keynote
10:45 - 11:15 Ira Shokar: AI for Physics-Informed Modelling: Advancing Weather, Climate, and Engineering
11:15 - 11:45 Invited talk/Case study: t.b.c. 
11:45 - 12:15 Paul Graham and Steve Davey: Enabling and training by NVIDIA 
12:15 - 13:15

 

Lunch 
(Vis Lab, MCS 1222) 

 
13:15 - 13:45 Tobias Weinzierl: Machines and machine access in Durham, the UK and the European Union 
13:45 - 14:15 Rita Fernandes Neves: Generative AI in NVDIA - from NIMs to Blueprints
14:15 - 15:45 Tobias Weinzierl, Alan Real Eamonn Bell: Durham University Digital Research Infrastructure Initiatives 
15:45 - 16:00 Q&A and close
16:00 - 17:00 Meet the experts – 1:1 conversations with NVIDIA and Dell experts 
(Vis Lab, MCS 1222) 

 

Details:

Tobias Weinzierl is the Director of Durham's Institute for Data Science and also chairs the EuroHPC JU's AI Resource Allocation panel. In this talk, he will give a brief tour de force through the AI equipment at Durham University with an outlook which resources researchers can use (free of charge) within the European Union. 

Tobias Weinzierl, Alan Real and Eamonn Bell are the PIs behind multiple upskilling and research grants funded under the umbrella of the UK’s Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI). In this brief overview talk, they will present the agenda behind these grants and how they can help researchers to work more effectively and efficiently with the Digital Research Infrastructure in Durham and the UK.