Forum in front of Audimax (building 30.95), KIT Campus South, Booth A16
You are thinking about/starting/doing your doctorate and wondering if KCDS is the right graduate school for you?
Come meet us at this year's KIT Career Fair in front of the Audimax!
We will be at the Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS) booth A16 from 13:30-15:30h.
What else to expect at the KIT Career Fair:
Every year in May, the square in front of the Audimax on KIT Campus South is transformed into a colorful job open-air, organized by the Career Service. Meet recruiting and specialist staff from a wide range of sectors, with different companies at the start every day of the fair. Exchange information in a relaxed atmosphere about job profiles, entry opportunities and specific vacancies that match your degree course. Sustainable and close: without registration, in the middle of university life, you can get information, make contacts and get your career off to a flying start.
KIT, Campus South
Dr.-Ing. Samuel Braun, Dr. René Caspart, KIT, Scientific Computing Centre
This two-day block course takes place on Friday, June 12 and 19, 2026 at Campus South.
SCC operates the high-performance computer systems Hochleistungsrechner Karlsruhe (HoreKa) and bwUniCluster 2.0. This introductory course will give you a theoretical overview of the following topics (block #1-2) and includes a practical workshop and a visit at the HoreKa facility (block #3).
Block #1:
- Supercomputer hardware design and architecture
- CPUs, Accelerators and High-Performance Interconnects
- Infrastructure, (Power) Efficiency and cooling concepts
- Operating models and user services
Block #2:
- Software stacks and job scheduling
- Programming models
- IT Security
Block #3 (date will be determined with participants):
- Practical workshop
- Visit at the HoreKa facility
Registration
The course "Intro to High Performance Computing" is organized jointly by graduate schools KCDS and ENZo and it is open to all interested doctoral researchers at KIT.
Please register via ILIAS until May 20, 2026.
KIT, Campus South
Dr.-Ing. Samuel Braun, Dr. René Caspart, KIT, Scientific Computing Centre
This two-day block course takes place on Friday, June 12 and 19, 2026 at Campus South.
SCC operates the high-performance computer systems Hochleistungsrechner Karlsruhe (HoreKa) and bwUniCluster 2.0. This introductory course will give you a theoretical overview of the following topics (block #1-2) and includes a practical workshop and a visit at the HoreKa facility (block #3).
Block #1:
- Supercomputer hardware design and architecture
- CPUs, Accelerators and High-Performance Interconnects
- Infrastructure, (Power) Efficiency and cooling concepts
- Operating models and user services
Block #2:
- Software stacks and job scheduling
- Programming models
- IT Security
Block #3 (date will be determined with participants):
- Practical workshop
- Visit at the HoreKa facility
Registration
The course "Intro to High Performance Computing" is organized jointly by graduate schools KCDS and ENZo and it is open to all interested doctoral researchers at KIT.
Please register via ILIAS until May 20, 2026.
Triangel Space at Kronenplatz, Karlsruhe
TT-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Unger, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Maria Francesca Spadea, Dr.-Ing. Tobias Käfer
KIT Centers MathSEE and KCIST are jointly hosting “AI Perspectives” at Triangel Space: The goal of this format is to foster scientific exchange among our active but very spread-out AI community at KIT.
AI Perspectives will take place on Wednesday July 8, 2026, 13:00 to 16:00h at Triangel, Karlsruhe.
Register here: https://indico.kit.edu/event/5580/
The workshop will feature talks by Benjamin Unger, Maria Francesca Spadea and Tobias Käfer as well as a networking opportunity with a poster session. We would like to encourage doctoral researchers to show their research related to AI and submit a poster! For KCDS Fellows, poster contributions will be credited with 1 CP („cutting-edge knowledge“).
Submit your poster abstract until May 20th: https://indico.kit.edu/event/5580/abstracts/#submit-abstract
building 20.30, room 0.014
Jan Stühmer (HITS/KIT), İsmail İlkan Ceylan (TU Vienna, AITHYRA), Joel Oskarsson (ETH) and Arghya Bhowmik (DTU)
The program of this year's summer school will focus on Graph Neural Networks, covering both fundamental concepts and practical applications.
Participants can expect a mix of lectures and interactive sessions that provide insight into the mathematical foundations as well as real-world use cases of graph-based machine learning methods.
KCDS members as well as doctoral researchers from KIT and other universities/ research centers are welcome to join! There is no participation fee. Please note that KCDS doesn't cover travel and accomodation expenses.
