Name: MPCDF-NVIDIA AI Days
Start: 2026-04-28T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-29T12:40:00+02:00
Location: Building D2

MPCDF-NVIDIA AI Days

from Tuesday, April 28, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, April 29, 2026 (12:40 PM)

Monday, April 27, 2026
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction - Piero Coronica (MGRZ)
Welcome and Introduction
- Piero Coronica (MGRZ)
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Hörsaal
9:15 AM Dataset preparation and curation - Nastassya Horlava (MPCDF)
Dataset preparation and curation
- Nastassya Horlava (MPCDF)
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Hörsaal
10:00 AM Break
Break
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Hörsaal
10:15 AM Model Evaluation and Light Customization - Nastassya Horlava (MPCDF)
Model Evaluation and Light Customization
- Nastassya Horlava (MPCDF)
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Hörsaal
10:45 AM Continual Pretraining - Piero Coronica (MGRZ)
Continual Pretraining
- Piero Coronica (MGRZ)
10:45 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: Hörsaal
11:20 AM Low-precision training (FP8 and NVFP4) - Séverine Habert (NVIDIA)
Low-precision training (FP8 and NVFP4)
- Séverine Habert (NVIDIA)
11:20 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Hörsaal
12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: Hörsaal
1:15 PM Tokenizer Adaptation - Nastassya Horlava (MPCDF)
Tokenizer Adaptation
- Nastassya Horlava (MPCDF)
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Hörsaal
1:30 PM SFT, Alignment and PEFT - Piero Coronica (MGRZ)
SFT, Alignment and PEFT
- Piero Coronica (MGRZ)
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Hörsaal
2:15 PM Break
Break
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Hörsaal
2:30 PM Model Compression and Inference Optimizations - Séverine Habert (NVIDIA)
Model Compression and Inference Optimizations
- Séverine Habert (NVIDIA)
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Hörsaal
3:45 PM Networking session and informal discussions
Networking session and informal discussions
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Hörsaal
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
9:00 AM Welcome & introduction to AI4Science - Séverine Habert (NVIDIA)
Welcome & introduction to AI4Science
- Séverine Habert (NVIDIA)
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Hörsaal
9:15 AM Physics-Informed AI with PhysicsNeMo - Benet Eiximeno Franch (NVIDIA)
Physics-Informed AI with PhysicsNeMo
- Benet Eiximeno Franch (NVIDIA)
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Hörsaal
10:00 AM Data Science with RAPIDS - Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi (NVIDIA)
Data Science with RAPIDS
- Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi (NVIDIA)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Hörsaal
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Hörsaal
10:45 AM Medical Imaging with MONAI - Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi (NVIDIA)
Medical Imaging with MONAI
- Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi (NVIDIA)
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Hörsaal
11:30 AM Digital Biology with BioNeMo - Brianda Lopez Santini (NVIDIA)
Digital Biology with BioNeMo
- Brianda Lopez Santini (NVIDIA)
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Hörsaal
12:15 PM Wrap‑up & discussion
Wrap‑up & discussion
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Hörsaal

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