Program

The program takes three full days (Sep 17-19, 2025), with start on Wednesday at 9:00 and end on Friday at 17:15. 

Wednesday - day 1

• 9:00-10:00 Opening, practical remarks, brief summary of the outcome of the preceding workshop, explaining the current goals.

• 10:00-11:00 Coffee break: participants introduce themselves in small groups

• 11:00-12:20   3 Pedagogical introductory presentations (plenary) followed by a discussion of the low-level standard that was developed.

• 12:20-13:30  Buffet lunch

• 13:30-14:00 Plenary discussion to finalize the low-level standard.

• 14:00-15:10 Presentations of libraries by their developers. (15 min. each)

• 15:10-15:40 Coffee break

• 15:40-16:50 Presentations of libraries by their developers (15 min. each).

• Evening - Informal meeting with networking opportunities

Thursday - day 2

• 9:00-9:15 Practical remarks and explaining the daily goals.

• 9:15-10:40   4 Presentations of application experts.

• 10:40-11:10 Coffee Break

• 11:10-12:30 Breakout session 1: compare implementations, outline features of a standard summarize the existing APIs and identify candidates that may evolve towards a high-level standard.

• 12:30-13:30 Buffet Lunch

• 13:00-15:00 Common coordination meeting: each group briefly presents their findings (5 minutes), followed by plenary discussion and decision making.

• 15:00-17:00 Poster session.

• 19:30-22:00 Formal dinner.

Friday - day 3

• 9:00-9:30 Practical remarks and explaining the daily goals.

• 9:30-10:30 Breakout session 2: Identify greatest performance issues of the current available implementations and discuss possible solutions.

• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

• 11:00-12:30 Breakout session 3: Make an inventory of current use of sparsity in tensor libraries and find common denominator in using such features.

• 12:30-13:30 Buffet lunch

• 13:30-14:30 Common coordination meeting: each group briefly presents their findings (5 minutes), followed by plenary discussion and decision making.

• 14:30-15:00 Coffee break

• 15:00-16:00 Discussion of future collaboration framework on standardization and efficiency improvements.

• 16:00-16:45 Closing lecture by senior scientist.

• 16:45-17:15 Formal closing