Ninth Workshop on Strategies for Enhancing HPC Education and Training (SEHET26)
scheduleMonday, July 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM CDT
location_onPEARC26 Conference. Minneapolis, MN, USA
The SEHET26 workshop is an ACM SIGHPC Education Chapter coordinated effort aimed at fostering collaborations among the practitioners from traditional and emerging fields to explore strategies to enhance computational, data-enabled and HPC educational needs. Attendees will discuss approaches for developing and deploying HPC training and education, as well as identifying new challenges and opportunities for keeping pace with the rapid pace of technological advances - from collaborative and online learning tools to new HPC platforms.
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PEARC26 Conference
Minneapolis, MN
Monday July 27, 2026
Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM (CST)
Agenda
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 01:30 PM-1:40 PM | Welcome SIGHPC Education Chapter, Nitin Sukhija, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania |
| 1:40 PM -3:00 PM | Session I |
| 1:40 PM -2:00 PM | “A Documentation Catalog for the AI Ecosystem: Design of the ICICLE AI Training Catalog”. Amit Vyas, Carlos Guzman, Neelima Savardekar, Mary Thomas, Michelle Miller, Alfonso Morales, Joe Stubbs, Christian Garcia and Beth Plale |
| 2:00 PM -2:20 PM | “Expanding the National AI Research Resource: Building Capacity and Community”. Mary Ann Leung, Connie L. McNeely and Danielle Jacques |
| 2:20 PM -2:40 PM | “Adapting for Adoption: Tailoring HPC Training for Resource-Constrained Communities”. Bryan Johnston, James Carson, Charlie Dey, Jennifer Schopf, Christopher Whalen and Grace Kebirungi |
| 2:40 PM -3:00 PM | “In Search of a Better Search: Using RAG on Cornell Virtual Workshop Content”. Zilu Wang, Christopher Cameron, and Susan Mehringer |
| 3:00 PM -3:30 PM | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 3:30 PM -4:10 PM | Session II |
| 3:30 PM -3:50 PM | “The Computational and Data Science Exchange (CDS-Exchange): A Model for Building Faculty Capacity in Computational and Data Science Education.”. Kate Cahill, Linda Akli, Tandabany Dinadayalane, Karen Rios-Soto, Rachel Vincent-Finley, Ahlam Tannouri, Zhuoying Wang and Lisa Garbrecht |
| 3:50 PM -4:10 PM | “T3-CIDERS Train-the-Trainers: Strengthening CI Skills for Cybersecurity Research and Education through Iterative Improvements in Second Cohort.”. Wirawan Purwanto, Mohan Yang, Peng Jiang, Dorothy X. Parry, Belle Li, Kristin Herman, Nolan Lovett, Shanan Chappel Moots, Masha Sosonkina and Hongyi Wu |
| 4:10 PM -4:50 PM | Interactive Session |
| 4:10 PM -4:50 PM | Panel: “Community Building for HPC Education and Training”, Sandra Gesing (US Research Software Engineer Association (US Research Software Engineer Association [US-RSE]), Forough Ghahramani (NJEdge,Inc.) and Cyd Burrows-Schilling (University of California San Diego) |
| 4:50 PM -5:00 PM | Next Steps and Action Plans |