Texas A&M University at Qatar (Tamuq) hosted the first International Computational Science & Engineering Conference at the Hilton Hotel Doha recently. The two-day event, was co-organised by the Texas A&M advanced scientific computing group (TASC) in collaboration with Qatar Computing Research Institute and Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute.
Texas A&M at Qatar Executive Associate Dean Eyad Masad said: “Texas A&M at Qatar is proud to partner with industry, government and academic collaborators such as QEERI and QCRI — and many others —to host the inaugural International Computational Science and Engineering Conference. Such events that help realise sustainable solutions to real-world issuesand encourage the exchange of knowledge, ideas and expertise that is essential to fuel innovation and new thinking.
“This event illustrated the importance of industry, academic and government partnerships in developing scientific solutions that have direct impact on the world around us.”
Dr OthmaneBouhali, conference chair and research associate professor and director of Research Computing at TamuQ, said: “This is the first computational science and engineering conference hosted in Qatar that brought computational material scientists, computational biologists and researchers in High Performance Computing.”The Peninsula
