The Cyprus Institute and the University of Cyprus jointly hosted the Cyprus Computational Science Symposium: The Convergence of Physics-based Modeling with Data-driven Methods (CONVERGE) on February 26–27, 2026, at the Engineering School of the University of Cyprus in Nicosia.

Organized by the Computation-based Science & Technology Research Center (CaSToRC) of The Cyprus Institute and the Computational Sciences Lab at the University of Cyprus, the symposium brought together researchers working at the intersection of high-performance computing (HPC), physics-based simulation, machine learning, and AI. The goal was to strengthen dialogue between modeling and data-driven communities and build a shared technical language for interdisciplinary collaboration.

The event featured keynote talks by Dr. Boris Bonev (NVIDIA), Dr. Awni Hannun (Apple Silicon / MLX), and Prof. Paris Perdikaris (University of Pennsylvania), alongside eight thematic sessions spanning climate science, bioinformatics, fluid dynamics, molecular modeling, networks, and sustainability.

Importantly, more than a dozen organizations participated, including public and private universities, centers of excellence and medical research infrastructures, reflecting the breadth of Cyprus’s computational ecosystem. This broad participation underscored the strong interdisciplinary character of the symposium, fostering meaningful dialogue across scientific domains and reinforcing the country’s expanding expertise in advanced modeling, high-performance computing, and AI-driven research

The symposium concluded with an open discussion on strengthening collaboration between computational science and ML/AI communities in Cyprus, reinforcing a coordinated national effort toward advanced, integrated computational research.