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Plenary Talks

Title: “Numerical Relativity  and the first Detection of Gravitational Waves� Prof. Deirdre Shoemaker Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA, USA) Web-page: https://www.physics.gatech.edu/user/deirdre-shoemaker Short-bio: B.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Penn State in 1994, PhD in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. Postdoctoral fellow at Penn State and Cornell University before joining the faculty at Penn State in 2004. Professor: School of Physics at Georgia Tech in 2008. One of the founding members and currently current Director of the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics. She is also an adjunct Associate Professor of the School of Computational Science and Engineering.

Title: “Periodicity and complexity of the self-organization in lasers, circuits, and other complex flows" Prof. Jason A. C. Gallas Universidade Federal da Paraiba (João Pessoa, PB, Brazil) Web-page: http://www.fisica.ufpb.br/~jgallas/ (CV-Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3059175688114916) Short-bio: B.S. in Physics from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, 1975), M.Sc. in Physics from UFRGS (1978), Ph.D. in Physics at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität München (1983). Postdoctoral at Max Planck Institut Fuer Quantenoptik (1984) and University of Maryland at College Park (1993). Full Professor at the Federal University of Paraiba, Editorial Board Member of the Scientific Reports and member of the editorial board of Heliyon. CNPq Researcher 1A.

Title: “High performance computing and the coalescence of compact objects" Prof. Pablo Laguna Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA, USA) Web-page: https://www.physics.gatech.edu/user/pablo-laguna Short-bio: B.S. in Physics from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa (Mexico) in 1977, PhD in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. Professor at Penn State in 1992-2000 (Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics). Professor: Computational Science and Engineering Division and School of Physics at Georgia Tech in 2008. Chair of the School of Physics at Georgia Tech in 2013.

Title: “Computer architecture challenges for exascale computing" Prof. Philippe O. A. Navaux Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil) Web-page: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/site/docente/philippe-olivier-alexandre-navaux/ (CV-Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5554254760869075) Short-bio: B.S. in Degree in Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, 1970), M.Sc. in Physics from UFRGS (1973), Ph.D. in Computer Science from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (1979). CAPES Coordinator: Computer Area. Full professor at the UFRGS. Member of editorial board: Parallel Computing, International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture, Communications in Computer and Information Science. CNPq researcher 1C.