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8-10 July 2026
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Wednesday 8 July

Session 1 (13:00–14:30 BST)

Chair: Ignacia Fierro Piccardo
Welcome and introduction

Debugging HPC Applications with mdb
(30 minute invited talk)
Tom Meltzer (University of Cambridge)
Oxidizing cryogenic sample storage in ultra-high vacuum
Reto Trappitsch (EPFL)
Florent Plane (EPFL)
Jaali: A Deterministic Point-in-Cell Locator Across CPU and GPU in Rust
Dinesh Adepu (DWI-RWTH Aachen)
Optimised Fermion Encodings for Quantum Simulation
Michael Williams de la Bastida (University College London)

Session 2 (15:00–16:00 BST)

A set of discussions on a range of topics taking place in parallel.

Session 3 (16:00–17:00 BST)

Chair: Ignacia Fierro Piccardo
Building a Fast 2D Finite-Element Solver in Rust
Elliott Kingston (Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS))
James Logan (CFS)
Matthew Vernacchia (CFS)
oximo: Mathematical Optimization Modeling in Rust
Germán Martín Heim (Universidad Nacional del Sur / Dow)
InterpN: Fast Interpolation
James Logan
Particle Swarm Optimization with Rust
Muthiah Annamalai (Panmo LLC)

Thursday 9 July

Session 1 (13:00–14:30 BST)

Chair: Shany Neeman
approx - How to do floating point comparisons in Rust
Jonas Pleyer (University of Freiburg)
cargo-templated-examples
Matthew Scroggs (University College London)
Porting a C library to idiomatic rust
Rich Neale (EPCC)
Backend agnostic linear algebra library based on mdarray
Pierre Wulles (CEA)
Christoph Groth (CEA)
Audio Made Simple: ndarray, Traits, and Zero-Cost Audio
Jack Geraghty (LoopDL)
Implementing the ForceAtlas2 graph layout algorithm in Rust
Guillaume Plique (médialab SciencesPo Paris)

Session 2 (15:00–16:15 BST)

An interactive tutorial session during which participants can choose which of a range of tutorials to attend.

Session 3 (16:00–17:00 BST)

An interactive session during which participants will be able to talk to the presenters of Wednesday's and Thursday's talks, and meet other workshop participants.

Friday 10 July

Session 1 (13:00–14:30 BST)

Chair: Matthew Scroggs
arrowspace-rs: Spectral Vector Search
Lorenzo Moriondo (genefold.ai)
A Rust implementation of RSRS for Boundary Integral Equations in 3D
Ignacia Fierro Piccardo (University of Bath)
Minimization Algorithms in Rust
Dene Hoffman (College of William & Mary)
Icechunk: A database for large N-dim arrays
Sebastian Galkin (Earthmover)
Towards Computing with HyperReals
(30 minute invited talk)
Timothy Schmidt

Session 2 (15:00–16:00 BST)

Chair: Matthew Scroggs
High-performance Cloud-Native Geospatial Python packages using Rust
Pete Gadomski (Development Seed)
Kyle Barron (Development Seed)
ModPPL: Probabilistic Programming in Rust
Austin Garrett (Purdue University)
The State of Heterogeneous Computing in Rust
Brett Eiffert (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Keita Teranishi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Pluot: interoperable static and interactive visualization
Mark S. Keller (Harvard Medical School)
Nils Gehlenborg (Harvard Medical School)
Closing remarks

Session 3 (16:00–17:00 BST)

An interactive session during which participants will be able to talk to the presenters of Friday's talks, and meet other workshop participants.