CASA-Forum 2025

Tuesday 11 Nov 2025, 09:00 → 16:00 Europe/Berlin

Central Library (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)

Join us on 11 November from 9:00 to 16:00 in the Central Library on the FZJ campus for the CASA Forum 2025!

With the establishment of the Centre for Advanced Simulation and Analytics (CASA), Forschungszentrum Jülich is driving forward the bundling of its activities in the field of data science and simulation.  The event offers an opportunity to hear about the various activities of CASA and the CASA labs.

This year we focus on Foundation Models, with a brief introduction to Foundation Models in general,  followed by two keynote talks on two projects from the Helmholtz Foundation Model Initiative.

Afterwards, we will learn more about the scientific highlights from 9 CASA labs. The event will conclude in the afternoon with a poster session.

The CASA Forum is open to all CASA members and anyone interested in CASA and the topic of data science and simulation.

Please register for the event by 24 October.

We look forward to welcoming you to the CASA Forum 2025.

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome by the Board of Directors (Kobus Kuipers, VS-I)

09:10 → 09:30 “CASA – Review, Highlights, Preview” (Michael Eikerling, IET-3, Scientific Coordinator of CASA)

09:30 → 09:40 “Introduction to Foundation Models” (Stefan Sandfeld, IAS-9)

09:40 → 10:10 “HClimRep: A Foundation Model for Capturing the Atmosphere, Ocean and Sea Ice Interaction” (Savvas Melidonis, JSC)

10:10 → 10:40 “MatBind in SOL-AI: From Multimodality to Materials Insight” (Le Yang, IAS-9)

10:40 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 11:15 “UNHIDE: Increasing findability of digital assets with the Helmholtz Knowledge Graph” (Lucas Lamparter, IAS-9, Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration)

11:15 → 11:30 “A lightweight and customizable RDM setup for large distributed data. Developments from PUNCH4NFDI“ (Giovanni Pederiva, JSC, CASA SDL NQFT)

11:30 → 11:45 “Updates on the Tensor Network toolbox” (Matteo Rizzi, PGI-8, CASA SDL Quantum Materials)

11:45 → 12:00 “Enabling Cloud Connected Labs of Future for Energy Materials and Technologies” (Kourosh Malek, IET-3, CASA SDL Energy Technologies)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 13:15 “Reducing the heavy load of atmospheric chemistry simulations“ (Domenico Taraborelli, ICE-3, CASA SDL Climate Science)

13:15 → 13:30 Title tbd (Stefan Poll, IBG-3, CASA-SDL Terrestrial Systems)

13:30 → 13:45 “Hybrid Soil Microbiome Modeling - Combining process-based models with machine learning to predict microbial dynamics and organic matter turnover in soil systems” (Paul Collart, IBG-3, CASA SDL Digital Bioeconomy)

13:45 → 14:00 “Successes and Challenges in medical AI“ (Chadi Barakat, JSC, CASA SDL Healthcare)

14:00 → 14:15 “Simulation Based Inference applied to Epidemiological models (and more)" (Alina Bazarova, JSC, Helmholtz AI)

14:15 → 14:30 Wrap-up and poster pitch

14:30 → 16:00 Coffee break and poster session