Swedish e-Science Academy

• Date: 15–16 October 2025
• Location: Umeå
• Type: Conference
• Organiser: Paolo Bientinesi and Erik Elmroth, eSSENCE coordinators at Umeå University
• Contact person: Paolo Bientinesi

Wednesday, October 15

Room: UB.A.220

12:00 Lunch (Restaurant Hjortron, Umeå University)

13:00 Welcome (Erik Elmroth & Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Thomas Olofsson, Umeå University)

13:20 Keynote talk: Paul Watson, From eScience to Impact, Newcastle University

14:00 eSSENCE-talk Lars Karlsson, Multi-Versioning Compilation of Linear Algebra Expressions, Umeå University

14:20 eSSENCE talk: Amber Mace, Modeling Electrolytes for Solid-State Batteries, Uppsala University

14:40 Coffee/tea break

15:10 eSSENCE talk: Monika Eisenmann, Probability in Numerical Analysis: Methods and Applications, Lund University

15:30 Poster Blitz

16:00-17:30 Poster Session with Drinks and Snacks
(Brashörnan on the 2nd floor of the building Universum)

19:00 Dinner and Discussions (Restaurant Artonnittiosju, Umeå)

Thursday, October 16

Room: UB.A.220

08:30 Shuttle from city center to Universum (Umeå University)

09:00 Keynote talk: Mats Holmström, Particle-in-cell simulations of the interactions between the solar wind and planets, IRF

09:40 eSSENCE talk: Paul Townend, Low-Carbon Resource Management in the Edge-Cloud Continuum, Umeå University

10:00 Coffee/tea break

10:30 eSSENCE talk: Orcun Göksel, Continual Learning and Domain Adaptation in Image Analysis, Uppsala University

10:50 eSSENCE talk: Gemma Atkinson, Mining diversity hotspots of bacteriophage genomes to discover new microbial immune systems, Lund University

11:10 Panel Discussion
Moderator: Melvyn Davis, Lund University

Panelists

• Mats Holmström, Institute of Space Physics
• Hans Karlsson, Uppsala University
• Martin Servin, Umeå University & Algoryx
• Josefin Starkhammar, Lund University
• Paul Watson, Newcastle University, UK

11:50 Closing Remarks, Stefan Engblom, Uppsala University

12:00 Lunch (Restaunt Hjorton, Umeå University)

Satellites

Four different satellites took place in connection with the event. Below you can find details about each of them.

All Satellites took place in different rooms of the Social Sciences Building. The specific room is listed for each session below. Coffee is always served by the respective presentation room.

1. "The science of mathematical modeling, numerical computing, optimization, and design - a workshop in honor of Martin Berggren."

October 14, 13:00 - October 15, 12:00
Room: SAM.A.230 (Tuesday), UB.A.220 (Wednesday)
Organizers: Mats G Larson, Eddie Wadbro, Paolo Bientinesi

October 14

13:15–13:30 Intro/Welcome
13:30–14:00 Niels Aage
14:00–14:30 Rainer Picard
14:30–15:00 Dan Henningson
15:00–15:30 Coffee break
15:30–16:00 Stephan Schmidt
16:00–16:30 Juliette Chabassier
16:30–17:00 Anton Evgrafov
19:00– Dinner

October 15

9:00– 9:30 Jarmo Mallinen
9:30–10:00 Eddie Wadbro
10:00–10:30 Coffee break
10:30–11:00 Ole Sigmund
11:00–11:30 Gunilla Kreiss
11:30–12:00 Dirk Pauly
12:00– Closing and lunch

You can find the full program here

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2. "Digital Humanities"

October 15, 09:00 - 12:00
Room: Humlab one floor below the University Library
Organizer: Karin Danielsson

9:00 Intro Research infrastructures in Digital Humanities

• InfraVis, Humlab and Huminfra: Karin Danielsson • InfraVis Infrastructure development: Evelina Liliequist • MAL: Ivanka Hristova • Swedigarch: Ershad Gholamrezaie

9:45 Session 1
Swedigarch showcase SEAD: Cenk Demiroglu

10:00 Coffee break/Fika

10:30 Session 2
• InfraVis showcase: NordPow, Maria Podkrytova • InfraVis showcase: Storytelling through visualization: Interactive data visualization for education and museums, Mattis Lindmark • Humlab/Huminfra: MoCap showcase project: E-motion, Onur Kilic

11:15 Keynote speaker: Per Axelsson
”CARE principles, data and the importance of context”

You can find the full program here.

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3. "Workshop on Advancements in Federated Machine Learning"

October 16, 13:00 - 16:00
Room: UB.A.230
Organizers: Salman Toor, Johan Ostman

13:00 - 13:15 Welcome to the Federated Learning Workshop

13:15 - 13:40 Presentation-1: Distributed Continual Learning in High-Dimensional Regression, Ayca Ozcelikkale, Uppsala University

13:45 - 14:10 Presentation -2: Fairness Regularization in Federated Learning: Connections, New Methods, and Empirical Insights, Zahra Kharaghani, Umeå University

14:10 - 14:45 Coffee break

14:45 - 15:10 Presentation -3: Federated Learning for Industrial Use Cases, Sima Sinaei, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

15:15 - 15:40 Presentation -4: Federated Machine Learning: Opportunities and Cybersecurity Challenges, Salman Toor, Uppsala University

15:40 - 16:00 Open Discussion Session

You can view more information herepdf, 131 kB.

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4. "Common challenges in large-scale code development"

October 16, 13:00 - 16:00
Room: UB.A.220
Organizers: Philipp Birken, Jonas Lindemann, Valera Veryazov

13.00-14.30 presentations:

1. Peter Munch (TU Berlin): deal.II: challenges and opportunities of developing an open-source FEM library

2. Luca Ferranti (Aalto University and Nordic-RSE): Overview of Nordic-RSE

3. Jonas Lindemann (Director of LUNARC, LU): From Code to Classroom:
Practical Applications of Large Language Models in Software Development

14.30-15.00 Coffee

15.00-16.00
Short presentations and discussion.

You can view the abstracts here

Location: Lund

Wednesday 16 October

12:00 Starting Lunch

13:15 Welcome: Stefan Engblom, Uppsala University

13:30 Keynote 1: "LINXS for the Exploitation of X-Ray & Neutrons in Hard Matter, Soft Matter, and Life Sciences – Opportunities for e-Science", Trevor Forsyth, Lund University / LINXS

14:10 "Developing Data-Driven Simulation of Protein Structural Dynamics", Magnus Andersson, Umeå University

14:30 "POLLENOMICS: Decoding the Farming History of Europe Using Advanced Statistics to Combine Ancient DNA with Paleo-Pollen Data", Behnaz Pirzamanbein, Lund University

14:50 Coffee/tea break

15:20 "Machine Learning for Physics-Based Force Fields", David van der Spoel, Uppsala University

15:40 Poster Blitz (45 seconds per poster, 1 slide)

16:20-18:00 Poster Session with Drinks and Snacks

19:00 Dinner and Discussions

Thursday 17 October

09:00 Keynote 2: "The Automation of Science", Ross King, Chalmers University of Technology

09:40 "Solving Ill Posed and Inverse Problems in Numerical PDE", Karl Larsson, Umeå University

10:00 Coffee/tea break

10:30 "Magnetic Materials Modelling", Erik van Loon, Lund University

10:50 "Artificial Intelligence for Experiment Design", Maria Andreina Francisco Rodriguez, Uppsala University

11:10 Panel Discussion: "What is the impact of e-Science?", Kersti Hermansson (UU), Ross King (Chalmers), Per Runesson (LU), Oxana Smirnova (LU), Kalle Åström (LU)

11:50 Closing Remarks: Stefan Engblom, Uppsala University

12:00-13:00 Lunch

Location: Uppsala

Wednesday, 11 October

Venue: University Main Building (Biskopsgatan 3)

12:00 Lunch (packed lunch for late arrival)

12.10 Bus from Ångström (Regementsvägen) to University Main Building (for workshop participants). The bus is marked with the logo “Christian Larsson”.

13:15 Welcome: Andreas Hellander, eSSENCE Programme Director. David Black-Schaffer, Dean of Research, Faculty of Science and Technology and Chair of the eSSENCE board

13:30 Keynote 1: Ola Spjuth “How AI and Automation is accelerating drug discovery”

14:10 Project presentation 1: Matteo Magnani, Uppsala University

14:30 Project presentation 2: Josefin Starkhammar, Lund University

14:50 Coffee break

15:10 Project presentation 3: Monowar Bhuyan, Umeå University

15:30 Poster blitz (1 slide, 45 seconds per poster)

15:50 Poster Session with Refreshments & Snacks

17:30 Time to check in at Hotel

19:00 Dinner at Hambergs festvåningar

Thursday, 12 October

Venue: Ångström Laboratory Room 80101 (Lägerhyddsvägen 1)

9.00 Keynote 2: Mario Romero “Who understands your visualizations?”

9.45 – 10.15 Coffee

10:20 Project presentation 4: Jesper Wallentin, Lund University

10:40 Project presentation 5: Martin Berggren, Umeå University

11:00 Panel discussion: Future needs for e-infrastructure for e-Science. Participants: Elisabeth Larsson (UPPMAX), Malin Sandström (VR), Björn Alling (NAISS), Ola Spjuth (SciLifeLab). Chair: Melvyn Davies.

12.00 Closing Words

12:05 Farewell and Thank You!
Lunch

Location: Umeå

Wednesday, October 5

12.00 Welcome to Umeå
Lunch (packed lunch for late arrival)

13.15 Opening Session
Erik Elmroth, Professor at Department of Computing Science, Umeå University and Bo Kågström, Professor Emeritus at Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, both PI:s and Local Coordinators at Umeå University, and Andreas Hellander, Associate Professor at Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University and eSSENCE Programme Director.

13.30 Keynote Presentation: Materials Modelling – Are We Moving? Forward?
Kersti Hermansson, Professor at Department of Chemistry, Uppsala University

14.10 Development of Atomic Basis Sets and Model Potentials for Applications in Electronic Structure Theory
Valera Veryazov, Associate Professor at Division of Theoretical of Chemistry, Lund University

14.30 Making It Work in Reality: Out-of-Distribution Sample Handling in Bio-Medical Deep Learning Classification Problems
Ida-Maria Sintorn, Professor at Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University

14.50 Matrix Computations: Going Beyond Libraries
Paolo Bientinesi, Professor at Department of Computing Science, Umeå University

15.10 Poster Blitz (1 slide, 45 seconds per poster)
Chair: Professor Erik Elmroth and all poster presenters

15.40 Poster Session with Refreshments and Snacks
17.30 Transport (bus/walk) to the Hotel and Check-In
19.00 Dinner and Discussions

Thursday, 6 October

8.10 Bus from Your Hotel to Universum

08.30: Research Data, Computing, Expertise – Integrated Support for Digitalized Research
Keynote presentation by Sverker Holmgren, Director of Chalmers e-Infrastructure Commons, Chalmers University of Technology

9.10: SeSE – Swedish e-Science Education – Graduate School
Jolla Kullgren, Researcher at Department of Chemistry, Uppsala University

9.20: CutFEM: Basic Ideas and Recent Developments
Mats G Larson, Professor at Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå University

9.40 Coffee Break

10.10 HASTE Toolkit: An End-to-End Data Pipeline from Collection to Efficient Management using Storage Hierarchies
Salman Toor, Associate Professor in Scientific Computing, Uppsala University

10.30 Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using a Pocket-Sized Ultrasound Device and Deep Learning
Jennie Karlsson, Doctoral student, Mathematics, Lund University

10.50 Panel Discussion: The Future of e-Science
Moderator: Magnus Ullner, Lund University
Panel:
Kersti Hermansson, Uppsala University
Sverker Holmgren, Chalmers University of Technology
Paul Townend, Umeå University
Andreas Hellander, Uppsala University
Johan Trygg, Umeå University and Corporate Research, Sartorius

11.40 Closing Words
Andreas Hellander, eSSENCE Programme Director

11.50 Farewell and Thank You!
Lunch at Tonka Restaurant
(or packed lunch for you who have an early flight)

Location: Lund

TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER

12:00 Starting Lunch

13:15
Welcome Sverker Holmgren, Uppsala University

13:30
Keynote: “NOMAD” Claudia Draxl, Humboldt University, Berlin

14:10
“e-Science for SciLife Lab” Kerstin Lindbladh-Toh, Uppsala University

14:30
“e-Science for Cancer Prevention and Control” Juni Palmgren, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

14:50 Coffee Break

15:20
“e-Science Tools for Investigating Climate Change” Ilona Riipinen, Stockholm University

15:40
“e-Science for MAX IV” Rajmund Mokso, Lund University

16:00 Poster Blitz

16:45- 18:30 Poster Session with Drinks and Snacks

19:00 Dinner and Discussions

WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER

09:00
“e-Science for Industrial Applications” Fredrik Edelvik or Mats Jirstrand, Chalmers, Gothenburg

09:20
“The Internet-of-Particles – A Compute-Driven Approach” Martin Servin, Umeå University

09:40
“In-Memory Computing” Ola Spjuth, Uppsala University and ScaleOut Software

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30
Keynote: “Digital Humanities” David de Roure, University of Oxford

11:10 Panel Discussion: “Generating and Using Data” Claudia Draxl, Humboldt University, Berlin - David de Roure, University of Oxford - Caterina Doglioni, Lund University - Kerstin Lindbladh-Toh, Uppsala University - Juni Palmgren, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm - Pär Strand, Chalmers, Gothenburg - Johan Trygg, Umeå University - Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University

11:50
Closing Remarks Sverker Holmgren, Uppsala University

12:00-13:00 Farewell Lunch

Location: Uppsala University, Main University Building, Room IX

Tuesday, October 16

12:00 Light lunch – Welcome mingle – Registration The gallery outside Room IX

13:10 Welcome
Anna Qvarnström, Chair of eSSENCE Board
Johan Tysk, Vice-Rector, Science and Technology, Uppsala University

13:30 Session 1: Examples of recent progress in e-Science research Chair: Bo Kågström

13:30 Modeling the evolution of enzyme function through simulation Dusan Petrovic

13:50 Parallel robust solution of triangular linear systems Carl Christian Kjelgaard Mikkelsen

14:10 Aeroelastic feather control – New concepts for wing design Johan Revstedt

14:30 Session 2: e-Science education Chair: Melvyn Davies

14:30 SeSE – Swedish e-Science Education – Graduate school Pavlin Mitev

14:45 Initiatives at the BSc and MSc level – an outlook Sverker Holmgren

15:00 Panel – How can e-Science research contribute even more to
higher education? Moderator: Melvyn Davies. Panel Members: Pavlin Mitev, Sverker Holmgren, Eddie Wadbro, Azahar Monge

15:30 Poster Blitz (1 slide, 45 seconds per poster) Chair: Magnus Ullner
All poster presenters

16:15 Poster Session with Refreshments & Snacks The gallery outside
Room IX. Opportunity to check in at Hotel City Stay

19:00 Dinner at Norrlands nation and Discussions

Wednesday, October 17

09:00 Session 3: e-Science in society Chair: Erik Elmorth

09:00 Ericsson Research and Machine Intelligence in the world of
5G, Andreas Johnsson, Ericsson Research

09:20 Automatic classification of microscopy images in digital
pathology using deep learning, Anders Heyden

09:40 CutFEM: Discretizing geometry and partial differential
equations, André Massing

10:00 Panel: How do we collaborate with society and industry,
and what are the opportunities for e-Science PhDs outside
academia? Moderator: Erik Elmroth Panel Members: Bo
Kågström, Anders Heyden, Jenny Nordquist

10:30: Coffee break

11:00 Session 4: The future of e-Science Chair: Anna Qvarnström

11:00 Gender mainstreaming and e-Science TBC

11:15 PLAN-E and e-Science in Europe Patrick Aerts, Chair of
PLAN-E (European forum for e-Science)

11:30 Panel: How can we further develop e-Science in research,
education and society? Moderator: Anna Qvarnström

12:15 Closing Words Lars Nordström

12:30 Farewell Lunch (lunch bag) The gallery outside Room I

Location: Umeå

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11 

12:00 Lunch (Hjortron @ Universum)

13:15 Welcome 
Sverker Holmgren, Programme Director of eSSENCE, UU 
Erik Elmroth and Bo Kågström, UmU

Chair: Bo Kågström

13:30 Keynote presentation 
Scientific challenges and opportunities in realtime engineering simulation 
Kenneth Bodin, CEO Algoryx Simulation

14:00 Modelling the brain in computers and robots 
Christian Balkenius, LU

14:20 Quantifying the magnetocaloric effect from first-principles 
Diana Iusan, UU

14:40 Design optimization with large design spaces: opportunities and challenges 
Martin Berggren, UmU

15:00 SeSE – Swedish e-Science Education – Graduate School 
Pavlin Mitev, UU

15:10 Chair: Erik Elmroth 
Poster Blitz 
(45 seconds per poster, 1 slide)

16:00 Poster Session with Drinks and Snacks (MIT Place)

17:40 Transport (bus/walk) to the Comfort Hotel Winn & check-in

19:00 Dinner and Discussions

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 

08:40 Bus from Comfort Hotel Winn to Universum

Chair: Lars Nordströmm

09:00 Keynote presentation: 
Multiscale modelling – the spiral staircase from theory to experiment 
Peter Broqvist, UU

09:30 Time-frequency localization of marine biosonar signals 
Maria Sandsten, LU

09:50 Coffee Break

Chair: Erik Elmroth

10:20 Effective task-based parallel programming models for scientific applications 
Elisabeth Larsson, UU

10:40 Deep learning as feature extraction 
Rickard Sjögren, UmU

11:00 Panel Discussion 
e-Science in Industry, Society, and Education – When, Where, and How? 
Panel: 

Kenneth Bodin, Algoryx and UmU 

Melvin Davies, LU 

Kristina Edström, UU (Moderator) 

Sverker Holmgren, UU

11:50 Closing Words 
Sverker Holmgren, eSSENCE Program Director, UU

12:00 Farewell Lunch (Hjortron @ Universum )

Location: Lund

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12 

12:00 Starting Lunch

13:15 Welcome 
Per Lötstedt, Programme Director of eSSENCE, UU

13:30 “SNIC – A New Beginning” 
Hans Karlsson, Director of SNIC

13:45 “Challenges in analysing high-throughput cell screening data” 
André Liebscher, UU

14:05 “Interactive Visual Mining of Event-Sequences” 
Katerina Vrotsou, LiU:

14:25 “Computation in Astrophysics” 
Ross Church, LU:

14:45 Coffee Break and Check in

15:30 “Role of van der Waals Forces in Functional Materials” 
Per Hyldgaard, Chalmers

15:50 “Scheduling for Future HPC Systems” 
Gonzalo Rodrigo Alvarez, UmU

16:10 “Fluid Mechanics” 
Luca Brandt, KTH

16:30- 
18:30 Poster Session with Drinks and Snacks

19:00 Dinner and Discussions

THURSDAY OCTOBER 13 

09:00 “Studies of Combinatorial Extremal Problems Using High Performance Computing” 
Klas Markström, UmU

09:20 “Documenting Human Diversity for the Future: Digital Resources for Endangered Intangible Heritage” 
Niclas Burenhult, LU

09:40 “Systematic Biomolecular Simulations” 
David van der Spoel, UU

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Keynote Talk: “Deep Learning - A Revolution in Data Analysis?” 
Ole Winther, DTU

11:15 Panel Discussion: “The Future of Swedish e-Science” 

Sverker Holmgren, UU  

Per Hyldgaard, Chalmers 

Hans Karlsson, SNIC 

Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen, LU 

Anna Wetterbom, VR

12:15 Closing Remarks 
Per Lötstedt, Programme Director of eSSENCE, UU

12:30-13:30 Farewell Lunch

Location: Arlanda stad

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14

10:00 Registration, coffee and sandwiches 
Hanging of posters (Hall “Frankrike”)

11:00 Information for eSSENCE PIs 
Ingela Nyström, Director of eSSENCE, UU

11:30 Starting lunch

12:30 Swedish e-Science Academy Words of Welcome 
Ingela Nyström, Director of eSSENCE, UU

12:45 Keynote talk: “The Dutch e-Science Initiative” 
Frank Seinstra, Director eScience Program at The Netherlands eScience Center Abstract:

13:30 “Parallel Numerical Linear Algebra for Future Extreme-Scale Systems” 
Bo Kågström, UmU Abstract

13:50 “Modelling materials and chemistry – in an eSSENCE and a European context” 
Kersti Hermansson, UU Abstract:

14:10 “Data Management and Scientific Computing – upcoming challenges at and around MAX IV” 
Tomas Lundqvist, Life Science Director, Max IV Laboratory, LU Abstract:

14:30 “Efficient Processing for Big Data Streams and their Context in Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems” 
Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers Abstract

14:50 Coffee Break and Check-in

15:30 “Autonomous Resource Management for Robust, Efficient, and High-Performance Cloud Computing” 
Erik Elmroth, UmU Abstract

15:50 Two accepted papers for presentations at IEEE e-Science 2015, Munich

“SeSE – Swedish e-Science Education – a Graduate School in e-Science” 
Anders Hast, Director of SeSE, UU Abstract

“e-Science in Cancer Research: Identification of Biomarkers and Signatures in Protein Data”, 
Torbjörn Nordling, UU Abstract

16:30- 
18:30 Poster Session and Drinks & Snacks

19:00 Dinner and Discussions

THURSDAY OCTOBER 15 

08:30 “Multi-scale Modeling of Spin Dynamics” 
Gunilla Kreiss, UU Abstract

08:50 “3D-Data in Cultural Heritage” 
Stefan Lindgren, LU Abstract

09:10 “Modelling and Predicting the Performance of Fusion Plasmas” 
Pär Strand, Chalmers Abstract

09:30 “e-Science for Cancer Prevention and Control – Enabling Translational Medicine with e-Science” 
Ola Spjuth, KI Abstract

09:50 Coffee break

10:20 “e-Science in the Galleries – From Martian Meteorites to Mummies” 
Anders Ynnerman, LiU Abstract

10:40 “Nordic e-Science Actions” 
Sverker Holmgren, Programme Director for NeGI

11:00 Panel Discussion: “Swedish e-Science in an International Perspective” 
Moderator: Kristina Edström, Dean of Research @UU 
Confirmed panel members: 

Anders Hast, SeSE 

Ingela Nyström, eSSENCE 

Juni Palmgren, SeRC 

Frank Seinstra, NLeSC 

Pär Strand, Chalmers e-Science

12:15 Swedish e-Science Academy Closing Words 
Ingela Nyström, Director of eSSENCE, UU

12:30 Farewell Lunch

Location: Umeå

Wednesday, October 15

12:00 Lunch Hjortron @ Universum

13:10 Welcome to the eSSENCE Academy 2014 in Umeå 
Ingela Nyström, Coordinator of eSSENCE, UU / 
Bo Kågström and Erik Elmroth, eSSENCE-PIs, Local organizers, UmU

13:30 Keynote presentation: Swedish Science Cases for e-Infrastructure Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University

14:00 Sensor based research at Humanities lab with special reference to data handling and eye tracking Kenneth Holmqvist, LU

14:20 Data management for research infrastructures with special reference to MAXlab and humanities Jonas Lindemann / Anders Follin, LU

14:40 Accelerating sparse matrix computations through the fusion of operations with applications in molecular dynamics Carl Christian Kjelgaard Mikkelsen, UmU

15:00 Tactile manipulation of finite element models and direct solutions Daniel Åkesson, LU

15:20 Accepted for presentations at IEEE e-Science 2014, Sao Paulo, October 20-24 
HTSeq-Hadoop: Extending HTSeq for Massively Parallel Sequencing Data Analysis using Hadoop, Alexey Siretskiy, UU

15:40 Poster Session with Drinks & Snacks Brashörnan @ Universum

17:40 Transportation (bus/walk) to Scandic Plaza and check-in

19:00 Dinner and Discussions Scandic Plaza

Thursday, October 16

08:10 Bus from Scandic Plaza to Universum

08:30 Adaptive and flexible platforms for eScience – the future is cloudy Johan Tordsson, UmU

08:50 Chunks and Tasks: A programming model for parallelization of dynamic algorithms Emanuel Rubensson, UU

09:10 Present and future data challenges in High Energy Physics at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN Richard Brenner, UU

09:30 Finite Element Methods for PDEs on Surfaces Mats G. Larson, UmU

09:50 Coffee break

10:20 SeSE – Swedish e-Science Education Anders Hast, Director of SeSE, UU

10:40 eSSENCE and the SFO Evaluation 2014 Carmen Medina, Research Secretary, UU

11:00 Panel Discussion: Swedish Science Cases for e-Infrastructure and the Future of e-Science in Sweden

Moderator: Sven Strömqvist, LU, member of eSSENCE Programme Council

Panel: 
* Erik Elmroth, UmU 
* Sverker Holmgren, UU 
* Göran Sandberg, LU 
* Ellen Sherwood, SciLifeLab, KI

11:50 Closing Words Ingela Nyström, Coordinator of eSSENCE, UU

12:00 Farewell Lunch Hjortron @ Universum

Location: Lund

Wednesday, October 16

12:00 Lunch G:a Biskopshuset

13:15 Welcome to the eSSENCE Academy 2013 in Lund Göran Sandberg, eSSENCE@LU coordinator

Introduction Ingela Nyström, eSSENCE coordinator, UU

13:30 Anchor-free Node Position Calibration using Distance or Relative Distance Measurements Karl Åström, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, LU

13:50 Data Integration of Global Profiling of Data in Systems Biology Johan Trygg, Computational life science cluster (CLiC), Dept. of Chemistry, UmU

14:10 e-Science Applied to Materials Olle Eriksson, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Materials Theory, UU

14:30 The Need for e-Science to Develop Lund University Bioimaging Center, a part of Swedish Bioimaging Freddy Ståhlberg, Dept. of Medical Radiation Physics, LU

14:50 Coffee Palaestra foajé

15:30 Improving on Perfect Parallelism Lars Karlsson, Dept. of Computing Science, UmU

15:50 Computational Challenges for Document Translation Sara Stymne, Dept. of Linguistics and Philology, UU

16:10 Accepted for presentations at IEEE e-Science 2013, Beijing, October 23-25

“Applications of Decentralized Prioritization”, P-O Östberg, Dept. of Computing Science, UmU

“Scientific Analysis by Queries in Extended SPARQL over a Scalable e-Science Data Store”, Andrej Andrejev, Dept. of Information Technology, UU

16:30 Poster session + drinks snacks Atriet, the University main building

19:00 Dinner Pillar Hall, the University main building

Thursday, October 17

08:30 Underlying mechanisms behind adhesion of fermented milk to packaging surfaces Marie Skepö, Theoretical Chemistry, LU

08:50 Antenna Design using Conductive Material Distribution Optimization Martin Berggren, Dept. of Computing Science, UmU

09:10 Introducing Uppsala Center for Computational Chemistry – UC3 Michael Stenrup, Dept. of Chemistry – Ångström, UU and Nina Fischer, Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, UU

09:30 ICOS – Carbon Portal: The Central Data Portal for a Europe-wide Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Network Marko Scholze, Dept. of Physical Geography and Ecosystems Science, LU

09:50 Coffee Palaestra foajé

10:30 Nordic initiatives on e-Science Sverker Holmgren, Program Director at NordForsk

10:50 eSSENCE Report 2013 and SFO Evaluation 2014 Carmen Medina, Research Secretary, UU

11:10 Panel Discussion “Big Data and e-Science”

Moderator: Ingemar Kaj, UU, chairman of eSSENCE board

Panel: 

Sine Larsen (Copenhagen University), MAX-lab 

Balazs Konya (LU), High energy physics 

Tore Risch (UU), Database technology 

Viktoria Johansson (LU), Humanities Lab 

Mauno Vihinen (LU), Protein structure & bioinformatics

11:50 Closing words Ingela Nyström, Coordinator of eSSENCE, UU

Welcome to the eSSENCE Academy 2014 in Umeå Bo Kågström, eSSENCE@UmU coordinator

12:00 Lunch G:a Biskopshuset

Location: Sigtuna

Tuesday October 16

12:15 Lunch

13:15 eSSENCE Academy Welcome! 
Ingela Nyström, Coordinator of eSSENCE, UU

13:30 Computationally intensive problems in systems biology 
Johan Elf, Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, UU

13:50 Algorithm and Library Software Design – The Challenge for Tera, Peta and Future Exascale Computing 
Bo Kågström, Dept. of Computing Science and HPC2N, UmU

14:10 An eScience Perspective on Integration of Demographic and Geographic Data 
Lars Harrie, Centre for Economic Demography / Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, LU

14:30 Scientific Big Data Management Research 
Tore Risch, Dept. of Information Technology, UU

14:50 Coffee Break and Check-in

15:30 Global Data Integration in Plant Biology 
Johan Trygg, Computational Life Science Cluster (CLiC), Dept. of Chemistry, UmU

15:50 4D Image Processing for Mechanics Studies 
Stephen Hall, Solid Mechanics, LU

16:10 Virtual Infrastructures for eScience 
P-O Östberg, Dept. of Computing Science, UmU

16:30 Poster Session and Drinks & Snacks

19:00 Dinner and Discussion

Wednesday October 17

07:30 Breakfast and Check-out

08:30 PostDoc Project Letter-of-Interest 2012 

LU PostDoc: “High resolution atmospheric inversions based on e-Science research” 
Marko Scholze, Dept. of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, LU 

UmU PostDoc: “Loss of biodiversity through speciation in reverse” 
Richard Svanbäck, Dept. of Ecology and Genetics; Limnology, UU 

UU PostDoc: “Computational Financial Statistics” 
Lina von Sydow, Dept. of Information Technology, UU

08:50 In silico Materials Design – Dream or Reality? 
Kersti Hermansson, Dept. of Chemistry – Ångström Laboratory, UU

09:10 Classification Tool for Bird Singing 
Maria Sandsten, Mathematical Statistics, LU

09:30 eScience@Scientific Computing – UU 
Sverker Holmgren, Dept. of Information Technology, UU

09:50 Coffee break

10:30 eSSENCE Report 2012 
Carmen Medina, Research Secretary, UU

10:50 Panel Discussion on the Future of Swedish e-Science 
Moderator: Ingemar Kaj, Chair of the eSSENCE Programme Council, UU 
Panel: Erik Elmroth, Coordinator of eSSENCE@UmU 
Panel: Sverker Holmgren, Program Director at NordForsk 
Panel: Jacko Koster, Director of SNIC 
Panel: Magnus Ullner, Coordinator of eSSENCE@LU

11:50 Closing Words 
Ingela Nyström, Coordinator of eSSENCE, UU

12:00 Farewell Lunch

Location: Uppsala

Wednesday March 16

12.00 A light lunch will be available in Beurlingrummet
Most of the rest of the program will take be in Room Å 4101 (= corridor 4, floor 1, room 01)

13.00 Welcome + UU overview (Sverker H, Kersti K)
LU overview (Göran S)
UmU overview (Bo K)
13.30 −15.10 15-minute presentations + 5 minute discussion

Each presentation should also mention problems/issues where there could be a potential forfruitful interdisciplinary collaborative efforts within eSSENCE.

• Magnus Ullner (stf. Bo Jönsson) c-Science: Cosmetics, Catalogues, and Cat Sand

• Anders Bergman (stf. Olle Eriksson) E-science from a materials theory perspective

• Johan Åqvist Computational biochemistry

• Kersti Hermansson Materials & molecules

• Sverker Holmgren eSSENCE-projects in computational science

15.10 − 15.40 Coffee, informal discussions

15.40 − 16.30 More presentations + discussions

• Bo Kågström, Lars Karlsson*, Carl-Christian K. Mikkelsen*

• Jonas Lindemann Creating an attractive grid-environment in SweGrid

• Mattias Ellert (inte bekräftat) (stf. Tord Ekelöf)

• Erik Elmroth

16.30 – 17.30 Work in groups (questions will be prepared)

19.00 − Dinner

Thursday March 17

9.00 − 10.30 More presentations + discussions

• Marcus Nyström (HumLab) Eyes and brain; visions on understanding the interaction

• Tommy Bengtsson Creating an exploration service based on demographicand geographic databases

• Anders Follin (stf. Freddy Ståhlberg) Data management and workflow improvements inmedical image processing

• Tore Risch Querying and Analyzing Scientific Data

10.30 – 11.30 Work in groups (questions will be prepared)

11.30 – 12.00 Summary, planning of work, next meeting

12.00 Lunch at Ångström