An international conference on “Modern Trends in Condensed Matter Physics (MTCMP 2018), dedicated to the 100th anniversary of academician Hasan Abdullayev, launched  in Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences on September 24. The three-day conference will cover condensed matter physics with academician H.B.Abdullayev's scientific heritage, as well as other fields of science (radiation physics, astrophysics, physical chemistry, crystallography, biophysics, control systems) in Azerbaijan.

Within the framework of the conference, a workshop was held at the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS. Academician-secretary of ANAS, director of the Institute, academician Rasim Alguliev said that the workshop is dedicated to the discussion of supercomputer technologies as well as Big data analytics problems.

Along with the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, representatives of the Laboratory of Information Technology of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) and the National Automous University of Mexico participated in the event.

The first day of the event reports were litened by the Director of the the of the JINR Vladimir Korenkov “Distributed Calculations for CERN Large Adron Collector”, Group Leader of the Laboratory of Information Technology Vladimir Gerdtin “Quantum Computing and Introduction to Quantum Data”, Senior Analyst of Hybridit's Heterogene Platform Maxim Zuev ”Supercomputer GOVORUN. New opportunities for scientific calculations" and employee of the Laboratory of Information Technology Nikita Balashov, Introduction to Cloud Technologies”.

There was an exchange of views on the reports, many questions were answered.