Scientific Computation in the University of Cambridge 2017-03-20

[Stephen Eglen]

"Scientific Computation in the University of Cambridge" Seminar Day - 

20th March 2017

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Scientific computation has a long tradition in Cambridge, but has tended 

to be fragmented

between different departments and research fields. We are organising a 

seminar day on 20th

March 2017, 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

We will also be using the event to launch a new project: the "Cambridge 

Centre for Computation" which

will be a focal point for future research projects, funding and 

collaboration, raising the profile

of research computing across the university.

Staff and graduate students are invited to give short talks or posters 

on their

work and the topics listed above. Microsoft Research have kindly agreed 

to host the

event at their research centre on Station Road. We will also have a few 

other participants

from industry and Research Councils.

Amongst others, there will be presentations from the following groups:

  * Filippo Spiga (HPCS) - Research Computing in Cambridge

  * Garth Wells (Engineering) - FEniCS sustainable software development

  * Chris Pickard (Materials) - CASTEP development, successes and 

challenges

  * Dominic Orchard (Computer Lab) - CamFort - verifying Fortran

  * David Wales (Chemistry)

If you would like to participate, please fill out this short form

[https://goo.gl/9FP878] by 14th November, and save the date

20th March 2017 in your calendar.

Please forward this email to any colleagues or graduate students who may 

also

be interested.

Many thanks,

Dr Chris Richardson - BP Institute, http://www.bpi.cam.ac.uk/user/chris

Dr Garth Wells - Engineering, http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~gnw20

Dr Jie Li - Engineering, http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~jl305

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