Join us for the 2025 NERSC User Group (NUG) annual meeting to be held October 8-9 in Berkeley, California.
This event offers the entire NERSC community the opportunity to gather to share information and research achievements, learn about the upcoming NERSC system, Doudna, and network with colleagues.
Agenda in brief
Day One: October 8
| Time | Topic | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 9 - 9:30 a.m. | Introductions from NERSC Leadership | NERSC Director Sudip Dosanjh and Assistant Lab Director for Computing Sciences Jonathan Carter |
| NERSC Overview and Year in Review | Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC User Experience Group leader | |
| 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. | NERSC-10 Presentation | Hai Ah Nam, NERSC HPC Department head and NERSC-10 project director |
| 10:30 - 11 a.m. | Coffee break | |
| 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. | NERSC-10 Panel Q+A Session | |
| 12 - 1 p.m. | Remote User Talks (lunch provided for registered, in-person attendees) | |
| 1 - 1:30 p.m. | To Atomic Resolution and Beyond (abstract available on event website) | Stephanie Ribet, National Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 1:30 - 2 p.m. | Accelerating Lattice QCD Inversions with Multigrid and Deflation (abstract available on event website) | Leon Hostetler, Indiana University Bloomington |
| 2 - 2:30 p.m. | Creating CGYRO ensembles with XGYRO to maximize fusion science output (abstract available on event website) | Igor Sfiligoi, University of California San Diego |
| 2:30 - 2:45 p.m. | AlphaSAXS: Reconstructing Protein Structure with Physiologically Relevant Conformations from Small Angle X-ray Scattering Data (abstract available on event website) | Feng Yu, Berkeley Lab |
| 2:45 - 3 p.m. | Applying supercomputers to high precision analytic calculations of gravitational waves (abstract available on event website) | Zvi Bern, UCLA |
| 3 - 3:30 p.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30 - 4 p.m. | Bayesian Inversion Powered Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning on the Cascadia Subduction Zone (abstract available on event website) | Sreeram Venkat, Oden Institute, UT Austin |
| 4 - 4:15 p.m. | Containerization at NERSC Perlmutter: Performance and Security Challenges in HPC Scientific Workflows (abstract available on event website) | Vijayalakshmi Saravanan, University of Texas at Tyler |
| 4:15 - 4:30 p.m. | Active learning of MLIP accelerated by NERSC (abstract available on event website) | Beihan Chen, Pennsylvania State University |
| 4:30 - 4:45 p.m. | Type Ia supernovae from Helium ignited double detonations in White Dwarf mergers (abstract available on event website) | Khanak Barghava, Stony Brook University |
Day Two: October 9
| Time | Topic | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 9 - 9:30 a.m. | NUGEx Welcome | Emily Belli, General Atomics |
| 9:30 - 10 a.m. | Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) Updates | Debbie Bard, Science Engagement and Workflows Department head |
| 10 - 10:30 a.m. | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 - 11 a.m. | DUNE at NERSC: Past, present, and future (abstract available on event website) | Matt Kramer, Berkeley Lab |
| 11 - 11:15 a.m. | gpAMR: Scalable AI/ML-Control of PDE-Based Simulation (abstract available on event website) | Chris Paolini, San Diego State University |
| 11:15 - 11:30 a.m. | ML Surrogates for Ocean Dynamics Simulation (abstract available on event website) | Ahmed Burak Gulhan, Argonne National Laboratory |
| 11:30 - 11:45 a.m. | Neural Decoding of Dexterous Hand Control using Perlmutter (abstract available on event website) | William Liberti, Berkeley Lab |
| 11:45 - 12 p.m. | The Real-Time Data Workflow of LZ Dark Matter Experiment at NERSC (abstract available on event website) | Maris Arthurs, SLAC National Lab |
| 12 - 12:15 p.m. | Closing remarks and adjourn |
Registration and deadlines
All NERSC users are encouraged to attend in person or remotely, one or both days. There is no fee, but registration is required for both remote and in-person attendance.
The deadline for in-person registration is Friday, September 12, 5 p.m. PDT.
Remote registrations will be accepted until Monday, October 6, 2025.
Visit the NUG 2025 meeting website for full details.