PSNC News, 17.10.2024

The Director of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences has decided to change the composition of the Plenipotentiaries of the Director of IBCH PAS for PSNC. As of October 1, 2024, the function of Acting Director of PSNC is assumed by Robert Pękal, M.Sc.

PSNC is the patron of the 1st National Conference of Young Scientists “Contemporary trends and perspectives in computer science and management”, which will be held on 17-18 October 2024 at Poznan University of Technology. Our institution will be represented by Piotr Rydlichowski, who will present the topic: ”Quantum computing as part of a hybrid supercomputing and networking infrastructure supporting the analysis and solution of optimisation problems”.

SIG MSP, which is short for Special Interest Group – Management of Service Portfolios, will meet in Poznań on 24 October 2024. During the meeting the group’s members will exchange their experience concerning strategic planning of services and other activities undertaken by NRENs. One of the key topics of the meeting, which is going to be hosted by PSNC, will be NRENs experience with AI.

It brings together eminent scientists, best practitioners and innovators, offering a unique opportunity to share experience and knowledge. We are talking about the SIMULIA 2024 Users’ Conference, under the patronage of PSNC and organised by TECHNIA POLAND, a partner of Dassault Systemes, which will take place in Poznań, Poland on 22 and 23 October 2024.

The final Friday of September was the day of the biggest event popularizing science in the region of Wielkopolska. Actually, we are not exactly talking about a day – rather a night, because it was the 2024 Researchers’ Night that filled PSNC headquarters with mostly young and very young enthusiasts of science. PSNC specialists were of course there to get everyone acquainted with new technologies. Here are some photographs from the event taken by Magdalena Madaj and Maciej Rutkowski.

More than 350 participants from five continents and 46 countries attended the Open Living Lab days conference in Timisoara. Dr Ewelina Czujko-Moszyk, representing PSNC Future Labs, participated in this important event developing and popularising the idea of living labs. She participated in the panel discussion ‘Business value of Living labs acting for Zero Emissions and Pollution’. The whole discussion was moderated by Fiona Zimmerman from Energy Living Lab from Switzerland.

How quantum computing can change our lives? The answer to that question was to be heard during the XXXIII Economic Forum, which took place in a picturesque city of Karpacz in the Polish mountains in early September. One of the guests of that event was a quantum world prime specialist – PSNC’s very own Krzysztof Kurowski, Ph.D.

Agrifood TEF is a project that aims to apply robotics and artificial intelligence to agriculture. One of the project partners is the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. PSNC specialists presented the Agrifood TEF solutions at the international AGRO SHOW held in September in Bednary, near Poznan.

Education in the field of quantum computing and machine learning, as well as complementary workshops with specialists are the examples of joint activities undertaken by PSNC and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In September both institutions signed an agreement and thus created the Consortium of Quantum Technologies – the main goals of which are the development of quantum computing and promotion of its benefits.

Straight from the City of Agels in the USA, a PSNC expert – Dr Mikołaj Buchwald comments the current decisions of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences concerning Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. It is hard not to notice the role of artificial intelligence in both fields, so let us get some insight from someone who is well-acquainted with that phenomenon, which for quite some time has been playing an important role in his own research.