MPCDF-NVIDIA AI Days

Europe/Berlin
Hörsaal (Building D2)

Hörsaal

Building D2

Gießenbachstr. 2 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
Description

 


The Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF), in partnership with NVIDIA, is pleased to invite you to a two‑day, on-site only, AI workshop.

Over the course of the event, leading NVIDIA specialists and MPCDF experts will deliver high‑impact talks and facilitate networking opportunities—perfect for researchers looking to accelerate scientific discovery with AI.

Day 1 dives into the latest concepts for training, fine‑tuning and efficiently deploying Large Language Models, while Day 2 highlights AI‑driven breakthroughs in physics, medical imaging and digital biology.
 
Day 1 – Adding new knowledge to LLMs
  • Dataset preparation & curation
  • Continual pre‑training
  • Low‑precision training
  • Supervised fine‑tuning, alignment & evaluation
  • Model compression & inference optimizations
 
Day 2 – AI for Science (half‑day)
  • Physics‑informed AI with PhysicsNeMo
  • Data Science with RAPIDS
  • Medical imaging with MONAI
  • Digital biology with BioNeMo
Registration
NVIDIA-MPCDF AI Days [28-29 April]
  • Tuesday 28 April
    • 1
      Welcome and Introduction
      Speaker: Piero Coronica (MGRZ)
    • 2
      Dataset preparation and curation
      Speaker: Nastassya Horlava (MPCDF)
    • 10:15
      Break
    • 3
      Continual Pretraining
      Speaker: Piero Coronica (MGRZ)
    • 4
      Low-precision training (FP8 and NVFP4)
      Speaker: Dr Séverine Habert (NVIDIA)
    • 12:00
      Lunch Break
    • 5
      SFT, Alignment and Model Evaluation
      Speakers: Nastassya Horlava (MPCDF), Piero Coronica (MGRZ)
    • 14:15
      Break
    • 6
      Model Compression and Inference Optimizations
      Speaker: Dr Séverine Habert (NVIDIA)
    • 7
      Networking session and informal discussions
  • Wednesday 29 April
    • 8
      Welcome & introduction to AI4Science
      Speaker: Dr Séverine Habert (NVIDIA)
    • 9
      Physics-Informed AI with PhysicsNeMo
      Speaker: Dr Benet Eiximeno Franch (NVIDIA)
    • 10
      Data Science with RAPIDS
      Speaker: Dr Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi (NVIDIA)
    • 10:30
      Break
    • 11
      Medical Imaging with MONAI
      Speaker: Dr Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi (NVIDIA)
    • 12
      Digital Biology with BioNeMo
      Speaker: Dr Brianda Lopez Santini (NVIDIA)
    • 13
      Wrap‑up & discussion