St Martin’s Institute of IT is organising a talk by two prominent academic researchers and a number of readers in the field of supercomputers and brain-inspired machine vision.
The seminar, open to the public with special interest for students, professionals, researchers and lecturers of ICT, will be held on April 10 at 6 p.m. at the St Martin’s Foundation Building, Schembri Street, Hamrun.
Nicolai Petkov is professor of computer science and head of the intelligent systems group of the Johann Bernoulli Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is the author of two monographs and co-author of another book on parallel computing, holds four patents and has authored over 100 scientific papers.
His current research is in image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, and includes computer simulations of the visual system of the brain, computer applications in health care and life sciences and creating computer programs for artistic expression. In the past, his research concerned the development of systolic algorithms and he wrote two monographs on this topic.
Prof. Petkov is a member of the editorial boards of several journals and will be speaking about the computational models of the visual system.
The second speaker is Prof. Thomas Lippert who completed his Ph.D. thesis in theoretical physics at Wuppertal University on simulations of lattice quantum chromodynamics, and at Groningen University in the field of parallel computing with systolic algorithms. He is director of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre at the Research Centre, home to two of the fastest computers in Western Europe (JUGENE and JuRoPA), as well as the most energy-efficient one (QPACE). The centre is setting the pace for European HPC.
Prof. Lippert is also a member of the board of directors of the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), and he holds the chair for Computational Theoretical Physics at the University of Wuppertal. His research interests include lattice gauge theories, quantum computing, numerical and parallel algorithms, and cluster computing.
Attendance is open to the public, yet it is advisable to reserve a seat by phoning St Martin’s Information Desk on 2123 5451 or e-mail infodesk@stmartins.edu or http://facebook.com/StMartinsInstituteMalta or visit the website www.stmartins.edu
St Martin’s Institute of IT is an affiliate centre of the University of London International Programme.