Conference

The PASC Conference series is an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of knowledge in scientific computing and computational science with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, workflows, application challenges, and novel techniques in the context of scientific usage of high performance computing.

The conference was initiated in 2014 by the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) structuring project, which positions Swiss computational sciences in the emerging exascale era. PASC aims at promoting a joint effort to address key scientific issues in various domain sciences through interdisciplinary collaborations between computational scientists, software developers, computing centres and hardware developers within Switzerland.

The Conference is co-sponsored by the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS – a unit of ETH Zurich) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The conference is managed by CSCS.

PASC25 will be held from June 16 to 18, 2025 at FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland.

PASC25
June 16 – 18, 2025
CAMPUSSAAL Kultur + Kongresse
FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch
Switzerland
pasc25.pasc-conference.org

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.

Target Audience

The PASC Conference seeks to engage participants from academia, research labs and industry to address important issues in HPC and computational science. PASC25 is inviting researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange of expertise. The conference is an opportunity for researchers in branches of science that require computer modeling and high-performance simulations to discuss computational techniques and technologies.

Event format

We are pleased to host PASC25 as an in-person event at FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch (CAMPUSSAAL Kultur + Kongresse), Switzerland.

Conference contributors whose submissions are accepted for presentation at the conference, should thus plan to travel to Brugg-Windisch and present their work on-site.

Program

The technical program of PASC25 is organized around the following scientific domains:

  • Chemistry and Materials (incl. ceramics, metals, and polymers)
  • Climate, Weather, and Earth Sciences (incl. solid earth dynamics)
  • Applied Social Sciences and Humanities (incl. behavioral, economic, legal, political and business sciences, philosophy, languages, the arts, ethics in computing including climate impact of HPC, biases in machine learning, etc.)
  • Engineering (incl. CFD, computational mechanics, computational engineering and materials, turbulent flows, acoustics, signal processing, etc.)
  • Life Sciences (incl. biophysics, genomics, bioinformatics, systems biology, neuroscience, and computational biology)
  • Physics (incl. astrophysics, cosmology, plasma modelling, and quantum information sciences)
  • Computational Methods and Applied Mathematics

The three-day program will include keynote presentations, minisymposia, peer-reviewed papers, panels and poster sessions. The conference is co-sponsored by ACM SIGHPC, and full papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.