KickOff Meeting

Wednesday 30 Sept 2026, 10:30 → 19:20 UTC

4th Floor Meeting room (Bologna - IRA)

 

DT-Lab Kick Off Meeting

DT-Lab is a Deep Tech Living Lab designed to turn frontier scientific challenges into reusable technologies, software, workflows, and services in HPC, AI, FAIR/EOSC data infrastructures, and Quantum Computing. It uses demanding scientific use cases as technology drivers and develops solutions through a closed-loop process based on co-design, validation, and continuous interaction with industrial partners.

The aim is to create a permanent innovation ecosystem that strengthens advanced scientific computing, supports major research infrastructures, accelerates the maturation of technologies toward higher TRLs, and promotes their transfer to industry and the public sector. DT-Lab therefore acts as a bridge between frontier science, advanced digital technologies, and societal and industrial needs.

The Kick-off is dedicated to the start-up of the technical and administrative activities of the project.

The workshop will be hosted by  Research Area of Bologna and organized with the support of INAF- IRA.

Address

Territorial Research Area of Bologna
Via Piero Gobetti, 101
40129 BOLOGNA (ITALY)

How to reach Area

By car you can follow google Map URL .

By train, from “Bologna Centrale” railway station: 

you can take a taxi (5 minutes taxi ride), or you can go  by bus

By bus TPER (Trasporto Passeggeri Emilia Romagna):
line 87 or line 37 or line 34

By plane, from “Guglielmo Marconi” Bologna airport:
you can take the shuttle  “Marconi Express”  – 7′ journey for central railway station and then continue by bus , or you can reach the Bologna Research Area by taxi (travel time 10′  from airport).

By taxi:
TaxiClick Easy | App to call a taxi from smartphone
COTABO (Cooperativa Taxisti Bolognesi) Tel. 051-372727
CAT Radiotaxi Bologna Tel. 051-4590
TAXI 0510909 Bologna, h24 – or by INTAXI APP: www.intaxi.it – otherwise send a sms or use Whatsapp: 320.2041047

When you can’t have a taxi:
Autoservices: COSEPURI, Auto Blu Bologna

More information here.

CONNESSIONE DA REMOTO: 

https://meet.google.com/qpp-dqer-wnv

1 Welcome e saluti istituzionali

Speaker: Claudio Gheller (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

2 Overview of the DT-Lab Project

Speaker: Claudio Gheller (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3 The ECHO-TWIN Project

Speaker: Fabio Roberto Vitello

4 ICSC and the ICSC Grant Program

Speaker: Ugo Becciani (ICSC)

5 E4 Overview

Speaker: Daniele Gregori (E4)

6 IFAB Overview

Speaker: Barbara Vecchi (IFAB)

7 Koexai Overview

Speaker: Luca Naso (Koexai)

8 eXact lab Overview

Speaker: Francesco De Giorgi (eXact lab)

Flash Talk: Attivita' di ricerca in corso

9 Measuring Science per Watt: Hardware-Aware Power Profiling for Heterogeneous HPC

Speaker: David Goz (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Goz_Measuring_Science_per_Watt.pdf

10 The HPC-oriented Transition Matrix formalism to solve radiation scattering processes

Speaker: Dr Giovanni La Mura (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari)

NPTMcode_DTLab202609_v1.pdf

11 High performance Stingray

Speaker: Dr Eleonora Veronica Lai (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Bologna2026_EVLai.pdf

12 A3I: an AI-assisted optical alignment framework for spectrographs

Speaker: Dr Andrea Scaudo (OA Brera)

13 Echo-Twin: Architetture Edge-Cloud-HPC e Digital Twin per il Monitoraggio del Territorio

Speaker: Leonardo Pelonero (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Echo-Twin: Architetture Edge-Cloud-HPC e Digital Twin per il Monitoraggio del Territorio

14 HPC Computing for Lightweight AI on UAVs and Edge Devices

Speaker: Roberto Spina (OACT)

15 Modeling Supernova Remnants in the Exascale Era: Accelerating MHD Simulations on GPUs

Speaker: Sabina Ustamujic (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16 Machine learning per l’analisi di segnali in esperimenti fisici e astrofisici con rappresentazioni a grafo

Speaker: Clara Saia (OACT)

17 Quantum Computing for Gamma-Ray Astrophysics: Detecting and Localizing Sources with Variational Circuits and Quantum Annealing

Speaker: Alessandro Rizzo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

presentazione_dtlab.pdf

18 Cosmological Applications of Quantum Computing

Speaker: Giuseppe Sarracino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Flash_Talk_Sarracino_Bologna.pptx

19 Experience in HPC, AI and QC

Speaker: Daniele Gregori (E4)

13:30 Pranzo

Flash Talk: Attività di ricerca in corso

20 SIBILLA: ML for scalable and interpretable Bayesian inference in Astrophysics

Speaker: Eleonora Villa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

21 WATCHER - Wide-field Optical Observations based on Artificial Intelligence for Tracking, Classification and Characterization of Space Debris

Speaker: Ivan Agostinelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

22 The particle modules of gPluto

Speaker: Agnese Costa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

26_DTLab_AC (1).pptx

23 From Gaia data management solutions to an intelligent Multi-Agent system for data models and product discovery

Speaker: Sara Gelsumini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Gelsumini_DT-Lab_Kick-off.pdf

24 Organizzazione progetto e discussione

Speakers: Claudio Gheller (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)), Giuliano Taffoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))