THE PASC25 CONFERENCE

The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), will be held from June 16 to 18, 2025, FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland.

We are grateful to our local hosts and sponsors – the multi-disciplinary research center Paul Scherrer Institute and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland – for their hospitality.

June 16 to 18, 2025
FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch, Bahnhofstrasse 6, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland

PASC25 Theme

Supercomputing for Sustainable Development

The conference will focus on exploring how supercomputing can be utilised to help address the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which underpin the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all UN member states in 2015. Examples of how supercomputing is already being used in this regard include its application to:

  • Renewable energy
  • Drug discovery
  • Medical device design
  • Climate modelling
  • Ocean modelling
  • Nuclear fusion
  • Desalination

The conference will also place an emphasis on best practices around reproducibility, and encourage participants to demonstrate that their results are reproducible.

Conference Chairs

Laura Grigori
EPFL/PSI, Switzerland

Laura Grigori is a Full Professor at EPFL and PSI and Chair of high performance Numerical algorithms and simulations.  She has received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université Henri Poincaré, France, INRIA Lorraine. After spending two years at UC Berkeley and LBNL as a postdoctoral researcher, she has joined INRIA  where she has lead Alpines group from 2013 to 2023, a joint group between INRIA and J.L. Lions Laboratory, Sorbonne University, in Paris.

She is a SIAM Fellow, the recipient of an ERC Synergy Grant, and of the SIAM Supercomputing Career Prize in 2024. Her field of expertise is numerical linear, multilinear algebra, and high performance scientific computing for challenging applications ranging from astrophysics to molecular simulations.

Peter Vincent
Imperial College London, UK

Peter is a Professor in the department of Aeronautics at Imperial College, working at the interface between mathematics, computing, fluid dynamics, and aeronautical engineering. He has a PhD from the department of Aeronautics at Imperial College in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics, and previously served as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. He is a 2016 Gordon Bell Prize finalist, and a 2016 Philip Leverhulme Prize winner. He plays an active role in his community, co-leading the PyFR project, and acting as a Principal Editor for Computer Physics Communications. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.