On Friday the 15th of April, our team member Xavier Sáez gave a talk as part of the Fusion Technology Course of the Nuclear Engineering Master organized by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-BarcelonaTech), Barcelona, Spain.
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PhD dissertation: Xavier Sáez
Xavier Sáez, researcher at Fusion group, presented his PhD dissertation with the name Particle-in-Cell Algorithms for Plasma Simulations on Heterogeneous Architectures. The presentation, hosted by the UPC on 25 January 2016 at 11:00, discussed research on PIC codes on trending hardware architectures and new programming models.
BSC PATC: HPC-based simulations, Engineering and Environment
From next February 16 until February 18, BSC will hold the PATC course HPC-based simulations, Engineering and Environment. There will be a series of talks concerning HPC modeling and simulation at Barcelona Supercomputer Center. Dr. Xavier Sáez will give a talk focusing on the following topics:
- Simulation on plasma and fusion physics.
- Current state of ITER project.
- Numerical methods in HPC.
- Present challenges and future milestones.