20th March 2017
The “Scientific Computation Day” took place at the Engineering Department on 20th March, 2017.
There was a range of talks, covering the breadth of scientific
computing which takes place in and around the University of Cambridge,
as well as software engineering topics:
- Scientific computing research around the University
- Research Software Engineering and best practice in scientific software development, sustainability
- Computing infrastructure and high-performance computing
Schedule
Registration and Poster setup (9:30 - 10:00)
Computing in Science (10:00 - 11:15)
- Garth Wells (Engineering) Welcome, Introduction and Overview
- David Wales (Chemistry) Energy Landscapes
- Mike Bithell (Geography) Modelling the Anthropocene
- Timothy Jones (Computer Lab) Automatically Exploiting Program Parallelism
- Nikos Nikiforakis (CSC) Computational Multi-Physics at the Centre for Scientific Computing
Coffee break (11:15 - 11:45)
Research Software Engineering 1 (11:45 - 12:45)
- Chris Richardson (BP Institute) Introduction
- Chris Pickard (Materials) A short history of the development of CASTEP
- James Hetherington (University College London) Computational Science as a Service
- Dave May (Earth Sciences, Oxford) Computational Geosciences at Oxford
Lunch and Posters (12:45 - 13:45)
Research Software Engineering 2 (13:45 - 14:30)
- Matthew Johnson (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Diversity in Research Software Engineering
- Daniela Butano (CSBC and Genetics) InterMine: Best Practices for Open Source Software
- Filippo Spiga (UIS) Research Computing at UIS
- Closing Remarks
Tea and biscuits (14:30-15:00)
Posters
- Matt Danish - CL
- Anita Faul - CSC
- Knut Sverdrup - CSC
- Cinly Ooi - BCNI
- Haran Jackson - CSC
- Eiko Yoneki - CL
- Gábor Csányi group - CUED
- Michelle Cain - CCCS
- Clare Macrae - CCDC
- Girish Nivarti - CUED
- Matthew Evans - CSC
- Zekang Cheng - BPI
- James Hetherington - UCL
- Andrew Thomas - Med School
- Matthias Haimel - Med School
- Zahra Fahmi - Babraham Institute
- Roberta Pigliapochi - Chemistry
