International conference “e-Infrastructures for excellent science in Southeast Europe and Eastern Mediterranean”

15 May 2018, 12:00 → 16 May 2018, 20:16 Europe/Sofia

“e-Infrastructures for excellent science in Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean” conference will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 15-16 May 2018. The conference will be a unique opportunity for regional scientists to showcase their work in selected research fields relevant for the region, as well as for presenting the latest achievements resulting from the collaboration of countries in the region of Southeast Europe and Eastern Mediterranean in the area of e-Infrastructures and their use. The conference will gather e-Infrastructure providers, scientists and researchers, and the policy makers from the region and beyond.

Prof. Ivan Dimov, Deputy Minister for Education and Science, Bulgaria, will open the conference on 15 May. Dr Augusto Burgueno Arjona, Head of the e-Infrastructure & Science Cloud Unit of the European Commission will provide a keynote presentation on the EOSC implementation roadmap. The conference will provide a holistic view on the history, present status and perspectives of the regional e-Infrastructure collaboration, including the analysis of the key developments and regional contribution to the European goals. Further, digital services for Open Science offered in the framework of the H2020 VI-SEEM project will be presented, as well as the flagship Digital Cultural Heritage user Community of South East Europe & Eastern Mediterranean, and the regional perspective of the Bulgarian e-Infrastructures.

The first day of the event will close with a panel to discuss regional collaboration for research, education and technological development and the value of regional e-Infrastructures for scientific achievements in the region.

The second day is dedicated to scientific results in the areas of climatology, life sciences and digital cultural heritage, which have been achieved using the integrated regional e-Infrastructure VI-SEEM platform. Also, a poster session will feature further research projects from these fields. Also a number of related regional and pan-European initiatives from the 3 relevant scientific fields will present their views.

Slides

• A_web_based_crystallographic_tool.pdf
• CCCSCMRR.pdf
• IMGGE_biobank_of_thrombosis-_BTomic-ViSEEM.pdf
• OBERA_Final_2.0.3_.pdf
• Poghosyan-Vi-Seem-Sofia-2018-Final-HA.pdf

Tuesday, 15 May

12:00 → 13:45 Registration

13:00 → 13:59 Lunch

13:59 → 14:00 Session 1: e-Infrastructure collaboration in Southeast Europe and Eastern Mediterranean an EU initiatives - Chair: Dr Aneta Karaivanova IICT-BAS, Bulgaria

14:00 → 14:10 Opening : Prof. Ivan Dimov, Deputy Minister for Education and Science, Bulgaria

14:10 → 14:40 EOSC implementation roadmap - Dr Augusto Burgueno Arjona, Head of the e-Infrastructure & Science Cloud Unit of the European Commission

14:40 → 15:05 Regional e-Infrastructure collaboration: history, status and perspectives - Dr Ognjen Prnjat, GRNET, Greece

15:05 → 15:30 VI-SEEM digital services for Open Science - Dr Anastas Misev, UKIM, FYR of Macedonia

15:30 → 15:59 Coffee Break

15:59 → 16:00 Session 2: Enhancing the value of the regional collaboration - Chair Dr. Aleksandar Belic, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia

16:00 → 16:20 Flagship user community: Digital Cultural Heritage - Dr George Artopoulos, Cyprus Institute, Cyprus

16:20 → 16:40 e-Infrastructures in Bulgaria: regional perspective - Dr Aneta Karaivanova, IICT-BAS, Bulgaria

16:40 → 18:00 Panel: Value of regional collaboration for research, education and technological development - Chair: Dr. Aleksandar Belic, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia

Conveners: Augusto BURGUENO ARJONA (Head of the e-Infrastructure & Science Cloud Unit of the European Commission) , Constantia ALEXANDROU (Director of the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center, The Cyprus Institute) , Dr Ognjen PRNJAT (VI-SEEM project coordinator, GRNET) , Prof. Ramaz KVATADZE (Executive Director, Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association, on behalf of the Eastern Partnership Connect initiative) , Mr Sasa IVANOVIC (Ministry of Science and ESFRI delegate, Government of Montenegro) , Sasa LAZOVIC (Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Government of the Republic of Serbia)

19:25 → 21:55 Dinner at "Laura" restaurant

Wednesday, 16 May

09:30 → 09:31 Cross Disciplinary & Digital Cultural Heritage - Chair: George Artopoulos

09:30 → 09:31 Life Science - Chair: Kleitos Sokratous

09:31 → 09:48 DataCrowds: Data Driven Crowds

Speaker: Panayiotis Charalambous (The Cyprus Institute)

09:31 → 09:48 MULTIDRUG: Structural differences between cis and trans folic acid and antifolates in physiological environment – a theoretical study

Speaker: Gergana GOCHEVA

09:48 → 10:06 DronMapper: DroneMapper – Cloud Application for Automatic Image Mosaicking and Georeferencing

Speaker: Zarko Zecevic (University of Montenegro, Faculty of Electrical Engineering)

09:48 → 10:06 Mol_Surf: Molecular dynamics study of the kinetics of adsorption of LAS molecules

Speaker: Fatmegyul MUSTAN

10:06 → 10:24 Ontologies in VI-SEEM: Towards an ontology solution in VI-SEEM

Speaker: Valentina Vassallo (The Cyprus Institute)

10:06 → 10:24 Surf_prop: Structural characteristics of a solvated multilipid bilayer containing a folate receptor – effect of pressure scaling

Speaker: Nikoleta IVANOVA

10:24 → 10:42 CLOWDER: Enabling virtual collaboration in Digital Cultural Heritage in the SEEM region

Speaker: Panayiotis CHARALAMBOUS (The Cyprus Institute)

10:24 → 10:42 PSOMI: Modeling and Molecular Dynamics Simulations Study of Enol-Carbonates and Their Derivatives

Speaker: Mijan BIGOVIC (Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Montenegro)

10:42 → 11:00 CNCADD: Semiempirical Atom-centered Density Matrix Propagation Approach to Temperature-dependent Vibrational Spectroscopy of Irinotecan

Speaker: Ljupco Pejov (Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje)

10:42 → 11:00 VirMuf: VirMuF: The Virtual Museum Framework

Speaker: Mohammed EL FARARGY (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)

11:00 → 11:45 Coffee Break and Poster Session

11:45 → 11:46 Digital Cultural Heritage - Chair: Mihajlo Savic

11:45 → 11:46 Life Sciences - Chair: Emanouil Atanassov

11:46 → 12:03 BVL: Distributed Optical Character Recognition for Old Romanian Prints

Speaker: Bogdan IRIMIE (West University of Timisoara)

11:46 → 12:03 CCC / CCCSCMRR: Classifying Cancer Cells from Mammograms

Speaker: Sa'ed HAYAJNEH (Jordanian Ministry of Health)

Slides CCCSCMRR.pdf

12:03 → 12:21 Manuscript: Semi-automatic collaborative processing of historical manuscripts

Speaker: Jihad EL-SANA (Ben-Gurion University)

12:03 → 12:21 OPERA-P: Empowering Pilot-jobs of HPC Scientific Applications over Data-intensive Clouds and Cyber-infrastructure

Speaker: Feras M. Awaysheh (University of Santiago de Compostela)

Slides OBERA_Final_2.0.3_.pdf

12:21 → 12:39 CH-CBIR: Convolutional Neural Networks for High Resolution Remote Sensing Image Classification

Speaker: Vladimir RISOJEVIC (University of Banja Luka)

12:21 → 12:39 SAMaCD: IMGGE biobank of thrombosis - from the past to the future

Speaker: Branko TOMIC (Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering)

Slides IMGGE_biobank_of_thrombosis-_BTomic-ViSEEM.pdf

12:39 → 12:57 AUTOGR / mGeoAI : Image and Signal Processing for Cultural Heritage: AutoGR SIFT and 3DINV Cloud Applications

Speaker: Nikos PAPADOPOULOS (Foundation for Research and Technology)

12:39 → 12:57 MDSMS: An integrated web-based interactive data platform for molecular dynamics simulations

Speaker: Armen Poghosyan (The Scientific Educational Center of NAS RA)

Slides Poghosyan-Vi-Seem-Sofia-2018-Final-HA.pdf

12:57 → 13:15 DREAMCLIMATE : VI-SEEM DREAMCLIMATE Service

Speaker: Luca ILIC (Institute of Physics Belgrade)

12:57 → 13:15 MD-Sim: A web-based crystallographic tool for the construction of nanoparticles

Speaker: Alexis Chatzigoulas (Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens)

Slides A_web_based_crystallographic_tool.pdf

13:15 → 14:15 Lunch Break

14:15 → 14:16 Climate - Chair: Hrachya Astsatryan

14:15 → 14:16 Related Project Session - Chair: Andreas Athenodorou

14:16 → 14:33 ARIADNE: The European e-infrastructure for digital archaeology

Speaker: Nadezhda Kecheva (National Archaeological Institute with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

14:16 → 14:33 EMAC : Accelerated Atmospheric Climate Kinetics in Earth System Modelling

Speaker: Theodoros Christoudias (The Cyprus Institute)

14:33 → 14:51 DACEM1/DACEM2 : The Euro-Mediterranean thermal bioclimate: Climatology and trends

Speaker: Theodoros Giannaros (National Observatory of Athens)

14:33 → 14:51 The first building blocks of the European Open Science Cloud from the EOSC-hub project

Speaker: Gergely Sipos (EGI Foundation)

14:51 → 15:09 BioExcel Centre of Excellence: Driving and Supporting Computational Biomolecular Research in Europe

Speaker: Rossen Apostolov (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

14:51 → 15:09 VINE : Effect of dust aerosols in forming the regional climate of Georgia

Speaker: Teimuraz Davitashvili (Tbilisi State University)

15:09 → 15:27 AUTH_WRF371M_EURO.44 : Applications of the regional climate model WRF-AUTH

Speaker: Stergios Kartsios (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

15:09 → 15:27 REDASP: HPC for SMEs

Speaker: Marijana Bozic

15:27 → 15:45 3DVAR_WRF : Using WRF-3DVAR assimiliation system to improve the weather prediction over the Ararat Valley Region of Armenia

Speaker: Zarmandukht Petrosyan (Armenian Hydromet Service)

15:27 → 15:45 VMware EMEA: Current Research Initiatives

Speaker: Vesselin Arnaudov

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 16:16 Climate - Chair: Theodoros Christoudias

16:15 → 16:16 Services - Chair: Anastas Mishev

16:16 → 16:33 ClimStudyArmenia : Weather Data Visualization and analytical platform

Speaker: Zarmandukht Petrosyan (Armenian Hydromet Service)

16:16 → 16:33 DICOMNetwork : DICOM data processing optimization in medical information systems

Speaker: Peter Bogatencov (RENAM Association)

Slides DICOMNetworkSCPE2018.pdf

16:33 → 16:51 ACIQLife / TVRegCM : Climate Applications in a Virtual Research Environment Platform

Speaker: Vladimir Ivanov (Bulgarian National Institute in Geophysics)

16:33 → 16:51 VRE Management : Improving service management for federated resources to support Virtual Research Environments

Speaker: Sonja Filiposka (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University)

Slides servOrientVISEEM.pdf

16:51 → 17:09 Monitoring : Monitoring of Heterogeneous Computing Infrastructure in VI-SEEM Project

Speaker: Mihajlo Savic (University of Banja Luka)

Slides VI-SEEM-P08-UniBL-Monitoring-2018-05-11.pdf

16:51 → 17:09 OPENFOAM : An Analysis for Parallel Wind Simulation Speedup using OpenFOAM

Speaker: Neki Frasheri (Polytechnic University of Tirana)

17:09 → 17:27 Accounting : Accounting services for the heterogeneous computing resources in VI-SEEM project

Speaker: Dimitar Dimitrov

Slides vi_seem_accounting_2018.pdf

17:09 → 17:27 Continuous_LSΤ : Prediction of pest population dynamics using satellite data

Speaker: Itamar Lensky (Bar Ilan Uniiversity)

17:27 → 17:45 DRS-ACS : Dynamic versus static approach to theoretical anharmonic vibrational spectroscopy of molecular species relevant to atmospheric chemistry: a case study of formic acid.

Speaker: Jovica Todorov (Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje)

17:27 → 17:45 VRE data discovery service : Solutions for Data Discovery Service in a Virtual Research Environment

Speaker: Vladimir Dimitrov (IICT-BAS)

Slides VI-SEEM-DDS_in_16.05.2018_VRE.pdf