News

March 18th 2019

Venue

Dept Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Building on the success of the previous years’ events, the goal of this workshop was to bring together researchers and programmers from different departments with common interests in the following areas:

• Research in Scientific Computing
• Software engineering and sustainable software development
• Computing infrastructure and High Performance Computing

Staff and graduate students were invited to give lightning talks and posters on their work and the topics listed above.

Programme

9:45 - 10:00 Welcome and Introduction

10:00-11.00 Session 1

• Stan Lazic, Astra-Zeneca - Communicating quantitative ideas to non-specialists
• Filippo Spiga, ARM - Boost compute using Arm Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)
• Emily Shuckburgh, British Antarctic Survey - Environmental Data Science

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:50 Session 2

• Alpha Lee, Winton Centre for Sustainable Physics - Machine learning of chemistry: How to make algorithms useful to experimental scientists?

• Priscilla Canizares, University of Amsterdam - Computational challenges in Gravitational-Wave detection

• Jeremy Cohen, Department of Computing, Imperial College London - Bridging the gap: Simplifying end-user access to scientific codes

• David Greaves, Computer Lab - Harnessing FPGA in the Cloud.

12:50-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3.00 Session 3

• Bill Jia, Cambridge University Synthetic Biology Society - Hands-on Projects to improve literacy in Scientific computing

• John Wills, Department of Veterinary Medicine - Image-Based Cell Profiling in Gut Biology: Opportunities and Challenges

• Jeffrey Salmond, UIS Research Computing - Recent projects in the UIS Research Software Group

• Noa Zilberman, Department of Computer Science and Technology - In-Network Computing

Final remarks