University of Donja Gorica and HPC NCC Montenegro invited a special guest, prof. dr Petar Velickovic, an Affiliated Professor at the University of Cambridge and Scientific Researcher at DeepMind. Prof. Velickovic gave a very interesting talk on machine learning, a few practical applications of AI/ML used by Google Maps, pharmaceutical industry, and mathematics. Prof. Velickovic presented his latest research activities and results, most notably the AI/ML applications in mathematics that was published in Nature journal. There was around 80 attendees that included high school and college students (undergraduate and graduate), representatives of industry. Prof. Velickovic then had a meeting with Prof. Veselin Vukotic, UDG Rector, professors and young researchers. This was Petar’s fist lecture he gave in Montenegro!
Open Mind Academy: Programming and Game Development in Python
Open Mind Academy, implemented with support of UDG and NCC Montenegro, is offering a hands-on course “Programming and Game Development in Python”. The course is designed for high school and college students to learn Python, programming concepts, and apply those to game development.
First four terms will be held online:
- Introduction, tools installation, concepts
- Basic data types, conditionals, loops
- Lists, dictionaries, functions
- Object oriented programming
Then, the course will have a live portion that will be organized into minimum of three days of intensive work and team collaborations. This part will take place at the University of Donja Gorica. The flyer for the course is available here.
The online terms will be on 3, 7, 10 and 15 of July. The live part will be arranged with students to best fit everyone’s availability. Applying for the course needs to be done at the following link.
An Invited Lecture “Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics” by Petar Veličković (DeepMind)
An invited lecture “Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics” by prof. Petar Veličković will be given at the University of Donja Gorica in the context of NCC Montenegro activities. The lecture will take place in the Amphitheater AP, University of Donja Gorica, 24 June 2022, 11am.
Petar is currently engaged as an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and Technology, where he earned his PhD degree. He has worked for several companies around the world, and he currently works for DeepMind as a Scientific Researcher. He has published a large number of scientific papers, most notably the paper “Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI”, that was featured on the cover of the journal Nature. Peter was a speaker at a number of workshops, conferences and other events. More details about the lecturer can be found on his on his website: https://petar-v.com/
Due to limited space, please apply via the form available on the following registration link.
EuroCC Montenegro website has over 10000 visits
EuroCC Montenegro website has over 10000 visits in last year and over 11000 visits total. There was over 5000 visitors. As expected the number of visits is in correlation with the dynamics of events and presentation. It can be seen that we were fairly active last 6 months. The website was created in Jan 2021. The statistics is enclosed.
New Sites Selected for Next Generation EuroHPC Supercomputers
University of Donja Gorica and HPC NCC Montenego participated in the consortium led by GRNET – Greek Research & Technology Network that applied for support from EuroHPC JU to implement a regional petascale cluster that will be a part of the next generation supercomputers in Europe. Members of the consortium come from Greece, Cyprus, North Macedonia, and Montenegro. The announcement just came in – link.
The upcoming IEEE COINS2022 Conference in Barcelona
Researchers from UDG and NCC Montenegro will participate in the upcoming IEEE COINS2022 conference in Barcelona, Spain. Two research papers will be presented at the conference presenting the research activities on the use of HPC and machine learning in agriculture and medicine. The conference is taking place 1-2 August 2022. More information on the conference is available here.
Open Mind Academy: Courses Starting Soon
We are continuing with the activities on Open Mind Academy. There will be enrollment into courses targeting high school students for this Summer. A new course for Programming games in Python will be starting soon. There will be courses on HPC/AI and Machine Learning, Parallel Programming, and others (link). Stay tuned!