Seminars of Innovation and Research in Informatics
SIRI is organized into activities, to be evaluated separately, that you can choose from a diverse set of offered activities. The offer of activities is varied and there is a certain degree of choice for the student. Eventually, each student must take enough activities as to add up to 6 ECTS. Below, you will find a summary of the list of activities that are currently being offered, other upcoming seminars and those that have already passed during this academic year.
To access all the information about the seminars, please, log in into Racó / Groups / Seminars. There, you will find some further details and instructions to enroll. Importantly, the enrolment to the activities announced in this list should be directly done by the students with the organizers of the activity. To certify the attendance to these activities and submit the documentation required to be evaluated.
Responsible Conduct in Research and Innovation (RCiRI) 2026
09 Oct, 2026
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06 Nov, 2026
2.00
Credits
Description
All human activities have implications on our society. Research activity not only does but also the overall research system is based on trust. Then, responsible research conduct is of outmost importance. The goal of the course is to provide an overview of the rules and professional practices that are considered as responsible conduct of research and engineering. Ph. D. students, post-doctoral researchers and everybody involved in research and innovation must know the principles and practices that define a responsible conduct and the ones that are not appropriate and are identified as misconduct.
Topics include:
Introduction on Responsible Research and Innovation
Research misconduct
Authorship
Plagiarism
Peer reviews
Conflicts of interest
Mentor/mentee relationship
Collaborative research
Presenting the results
Intellectual Property
Information Privacy
Ethics for Engineers, Researchers and Innovators (EthicsERI) 2026-1
13 Nov, 2026
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11 Dec, 2026
2.00
Credits
Description
All human activities have implications on our society. Professional exercise in engineering, being a researcher or running innovation projects imply making decisions that are not exclusively technical, they involve ethical considerations. Theoretical sessions are complemented with numerous examples and cases.
La descripció es troba a:
https://sisap-challenges.github.io/2026/index.html#sisap_2026_indexing_challenge_task_description_and_participation_details
EUMaster4HPC Summer School 2026
05 Jul, 2026
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14 Jul, 2026
3.00
Credits
Description
The EUMaster4HPC Summer School 2026 entitled HPC and Emerging Trends, will take place at the Youth Center Marienthal and at the beautiful premises of the University of Luxembourg in Belval, from 5 to 14 July 2026.
The University of Luxembourg is a leading European research university, renowned for its excellence in science, engineering, and technology. Its modern facilities and vibrant academic community provide an inspiring environment for this specialised programme.
BSC Training Course: Introduction to SYLC Programming
MIRI-HPC
10 Jul, 2026
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10 Jul, 2026
0.50
Credits
Description
This course introduces the principles of SYCL as a modern approach to heterogeneous programming in C++. Its objective is to equip participants with the knowledge and practical skills to develop efficient parallel applications across diverse hardware platforms. Through a balance of theory and hands-on practice, attendees will gain an understanding of SYCL's programming model, learn how to manage memory and computation effectively, and apply tools for performance analysis. By the end of the course, participants will be able to design, implement, and optimize SYCL applications with confidence, preparing them to tackle real-world scientific and industrial workloads.
This is an expansion of the topic "OpenACC and other approaches to GPU computing" covered on last years editions of the Introduction to CUDA Programming. This course is delivered by the GPU Center of Excellence (GCOE) awarded by NVIDIA to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in association with Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC). It will provide very good introduction to the PUMPS Summer School run jointly with NVIDIA - Further information on the 2023 PUMPS Summer school will follow soon. As an NVIDIA GPU Center of Excellence, BSC and UPC are deeply involved in research and outreach activities around GPU Computing. OpenACC is a high-level, directive-based programming model for GPU computing. It is a very convenient language to leverage the GPU power with minimal code modifications, being the preferred option for non computer scientists. This course will cover the necessary topics to get started with GPU programming in OpenACC, as well as some advanced topics.
BSC Training Course: Introduction to CUDA Programming
MIRI-HPC
06 Jul, 2026
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08 Jul, 2026
1.50
Credits
Description
The aim of this course is to provide students with knowledge and hands-on experience in developing applications software for processors with massively parallel computing resources. In general, we refer to a processor as massively parallel if it has the ability to complete more than 64 arithmetic operations per clock cycle. Many commercial offerings from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel already offer such levels of concurrency. Effectively programming these processors will require in-depth knowledge about parallel programming principles, as well as the parallelism models, communication models, and resource limitations of these processors.
Graduate School for the Symposium on Computer Animation 2026:
https://computeranimation.org/
MESIO Summer School (1 course)
22 Jun, 2026
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06 Jul, 2026
1.00
Credits
Description
The MESIO UPC-UB Summer School is a specialized training program that increases the supply of both professional and research training in the field of Statistics and Mathematics. The courses are open to students from master's degrees. The Summer School courses are taught by renowned visiting professors as well as professors of the UPC and UB.
The 2026 edition includes 12 activities scheduled from June 22th to July 10th, 2026. These courses will be conducted 'face-to-face' and will also be streamed live.
https://mesioupcub.masters.upc.edu/en/xix-summer-school-2026/courses-p
IMPORTANT NOTE: each course is 15h. Once you enrol you must confirm you want to be evaluated. Then, you must conduct the required exercises / training / etc. to pass the course. For each passed course you will receive a certificate.
If you just attend one course, you get 1 ECTS. For attending two courses 2 ECTS. For attending 3 courses 3 ECTS. You cannot claim more than 3 ECTS this way. Be sure to choose the correct SIRI event (there are three, depending on the number of courses taken and the ECTS you want to claim).
