In its first edition, the Aurora School aims to gather graduate students and young post-docs who are interested in the computational challenges posed by Lattice Gauge theories and Nuclear Physics problems, and at the same time are willing to pioneer the use of the newly built high performance computer system AURORA, featuring a peculiar internal networking architecture that will provide extreme scalability.

The school is organized in four topical courses (two courses per week), plus a primer on the HPC AURORA system, which will present the main features of the machine, the communication software, and will include hands-on sessions to get accustomed with the usage of the facility. The primer will cover both weeks of the school. Topical lectures will be presented by members of the Trentino Agency for ProtonTerapy (ATreP) and the Edmund Mach Foundation.

A detailed schedule will be posted soon.

Aurora-Science is a research project at the crossroad of computational sciences and Computer Architecture. It builds on the combined know-how collectively available to the members of the collaboration on:

• Design, development and operation of application-driven high-performance computer system (e.g., the series of APE machines, developed by INFN).
• Algorithm development and physics analysis in different areas of physics (Lattice Gauge Theory, large scale few-body and many-body Computational Nuclear Physics, Computational Fluid-Dynamics, Molecular Dynamics), quantitative-biology (protein folding), Bio-Informatics (Gene-Sequencing) and medical physics.

For further information feel free to contact the members of the organizing committee:

• Francesco Pederiva (Coordinator, pederiva@science.unitn.it)
• Francesco Di Renzo (direnzo@fis.unipr.it)
• Winfried Leidemann (leideman@science.unitn.it)
• Luigi Scorzato (scorzato@ect.it)
• Paolo Verrocchio (verrocch@science.unitn.it)

Administrative requests can be addressed to Ines Campo (Ines@ect.it) at ECT*.

The first edition of the AURORA school will be held on the premises of ECT*, the European Center for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas, located in the alpine city of Trento. The School is managed by ECT* in collaboration with the Faculty of Science of the University of Trento.