Dear Colleagues:
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to participate in the Biophysics at the Dawn of Exascale Computers thematic meeting, to be held at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, in Hamburg, Germany, May 16 – 20, 2022.
Molecular biophysics over the next decade will be dominated by three technologies - electron microscopy and tomography, X-ray lasers, and machine learning. Taking us a step closer towards capturing bimolecular assemblies in action, these technologies together with molecular simulations are delivering not only static structures, but movies of cellular functions. One common denominator to this remarkable progress is the advent graphical processor unit (GPU)-intensive compute resources over the past decade, and very recent availability of Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). Already leveraging parallel capabilities, areas of diffraction data and single-particle image processing, hybrid-modeling, molecular dynamics and free-energy simulations, and drug design and discovery are frontrunners in leveraging the prowess of exascale computing.
Fortuitously overlapping with the inception of the exascale era, this meeting will prepare the biophysics community to start advancing the development and implementation of computational algorithms towards the best use of the exascale computing resources. The meeting brings together experimentalists and theoreticians working in the broad areas of protein folding and assembly, dissection of allosteric pathways, macromolecular interactions and bottom-up structure of cells wherein the large-scale computing is expected to bring forth major discoveries. Molecular and cellular biologists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists will find a common platform to share their innovations and future needs with experts, so as a community we move forward to best adapt ourselves with these world-class resources.
Visit the website for the program overview and list of speakers. We encourage you to share this information with colleagues who may be interested in attending.
The deadline to submit an abstract is February 4, 2022 and the early registration deadline is February 7, 2022. We look forward to seeing you in Hamburg!
Sincerely,
Program Co-Organizers
Rommie Amaro, University of California, San Diego, USA
Christophe Chipot, CNRS, France
Rosana Collepardo, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
Petra Fromme, Arizona State University, USA
Raimund Fromme, Arizona State University, USA
Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, USA
Arwen Pearson, University of Hamburg, Germany
Alberto Perez, University of Florida, USA
Abhishek Singharoy, Arizona State University, USA
Gregory Voth, University of Chicago, USA