Raphael Pestourie Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech, School of Computational Science and Engineering Abstract Complex systems are hard to simulate and even more difficult to optimize. In this talk, I will showcase how surrogate models accelerate the evaluation of properties of solutions to partial differential equations. I will present a precise definition of the computational benefit…

Ling-Jian Meng, Ph.D Professor Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, and Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ljmeng@illinois.edu Abstract: Nuclear Medicine is a critical element of modern medicine and healthcare practice, in which we use imaging instrumentation and radiopharmaceuticals to study physiological processes, and…

Francesco Volpe Founder, CEO, CTO Abstract French- and Swiss-based startup Renaissance Fusion strives to build a commercial nuclear fusion reactor by reinventing and synergistically combining three main technologies. The first one is the stellarator: more stable and steady state than a tokamak, but historically complicated to build. Renaissance dramatically simplifies its “coil winding surface”. The…