Presentation by Hans Fangohr, summarising the presentations made at ICSE 2016
Hans Fangohr presented a summary of what was being talked about at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2016 at Austin, Texas. The conference is focused on what software engineering can do for science. Hans Fangohr presented summaries ...
On Thursday 27th April 2017, Dan Wallace and MSc student Jaya Vignesh Madana Gopal delivered a workshop on Cloud Computing using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. The goals of the workshop were to introduce participants to the platform and its current commercial use, motivate its potential ...
The first part of the two-hour workshop presented the three tools. Jupyter Notebook was ...
Using a modification package written for the popular children's game Minecraft by Alvaro Perez-Diaz called pytool, several students from the CDT ran an event at the Winchester Science Centre where they introduced programming to ...
Public Engagement is a key activity of modern academic life, in addition to teaching and education, research and leadership.
The University of Southampton's Principal Public Engagement Fellow Dr Steve Dorney ran a 4-hour workshop with all NGCM CDT students to outline motivations for public engagement but more importantly to ...
Agile Software Development improves software quality by promoting collaboration between developers, directors, and users
Large technology corporations with thousands of staff, not to mention millions of users worldwide, must cultivate a rigorous approach to organising personnel and assigning tasks. For Sky, the development of new products requires a hierarchy of ...
At the end of November, Jonathon Waters delivered a seminar on the relatively new programming language Julia. Jonathon is an NGCM iPhD student at University of Southampton, being in his second year of PhD and part of Cohort 2. Julia is a new ...
Testing of code can take lot of effort.
In late November 2016, the NGCM was pleased to host Dr Dominic Orchard from the University of Kent, to present his views on the scientific software verification.
As in any other activity involving human factors, also in programming we are likely to ...
Dr. Cheer explaining Cochlear mechanics.
This mornings seminar was given by Dr. Jordan Cheer about the role various roles of the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) research group at the University of Southampton.
The ISVR group covers 4 main areas of research:
This seminar was delivered by Peter Horak of the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre. We heard how optical fibres underpin all modern communications, and are so widespread that their total length would stretch to the Sun and back twenty times. All of this from single fibres the size ...
Joshua Greenhalgh giving an outline of his reasearch.
The following seminar was given by cohort one student Joshua Greenhalgh about his current research in tomography.
Tomography is the technique in which an object is reconstructed from a series of line integrals. Johann Radon laid down the mathematical framework for tomography ...
Last week saw one of many seminars for the third NGCM cohort as a part of the Professional Skills Development module - what better a topic than an introduction to Git from Dr Ian Hawke.
Git is a version control system used worldwide, by amateur and professional software developers alike. There ...
The SAB members, CDT staff, and cohorts await the start of the seminars.
On the 11th of November 2016, three members of the strategic advisory board (SAB) for the CDT in NGCM arrived at Boldrewood Campus. These were: Daniel Smith from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which ...
Guidance on presentation skills in research.
NGCM students participated in a morning session on presentation skills. It was a mixture of collaborative discussion and individual student presentations.
The morning began with a discussion of the importance of communication in academia lead by Professor Hans Fangohr. Communication of research is vital ...
Rory Brown presenting his work on Be/X-ray Binaries.
Rory Brown, a member of NGCM Cohort 1, gave a seminar discussing his research on high mass X-ray binaries and the surrounding background physics.
High mass X-ray binaries are binary star systems formed of a large companion star orbiting a companion ...
This seminar was delivered by Ioannis Begleris (a NGCM Cohort 1 member), about Multimode Optical Parametric Amplifiers and Oscillators, which concerns his primary area of research. He is based in the Optoelectronics Research Centre within the University of Southampton.
The Internet is built on top of a growing network of ...
A chain of computational models can be used to simulate the effects of a chemical release
The release of a chemical or biological agent into the environment and the subsequent effects on humans can be divided into stages, many of which can be simulated independently. To what extent does varying ...
Jan Kamenik gave a presentation introducing the concepts of robust design with specific reference to his research topic on turbomachinery blades for Rolls-Royce.
Turbine blades can be optimised to reduce aerodynamic losses which therefore improves engine efficiency and in particular adiabatic efficiency. This has readily been done by deterministic optimisation ...
Alpha particle ejection from decaying Uranium atom causing local melting in a substrate.
This post follows a seminar given by Dr Ian Bush, software research fellow, Oxford University, describing the role of Research Software Engineers, (RSEs), and the use of MPI.
A growing number of scientists are combining their academic ...
Screencast of the process of creating a new NGCM blog post.
Students received training for part of the Professional and Research Skills module in how to use Pelican - a tool NGCM uses to update its blog. The tutorial was given by Ian Hawke.
First, an environment named blog needs to ...
On 11 October David Lambkin of ABPmer gave the first NGCM seminar of the academic year.
ABP Marine Environmental Research work on coastal defences and management, energy studies for environmental impact, planning and licensing, and the development of ports and navigation. They study and predict the physical properties of the ...
Most robots can freely move in any direction so long as there are no obstacles. Autonomous sailing presents a different kind of challenge: the boat can't sail directly towards the wind, so it has to zig-zag ('tack') to get to a point upwind. It's also important to keep ...
I was recently invited to take part as a trainer at a Software Carpentry workshop organised by the Software Sustainabilty Institute and the University of Southampton's Research Software Group. As part of this workshop I lead a session introducing the use of the shell along with some simple Bash ...
Dr Wadud Miah introducing modern Fortran features.
The University of Southampton hosted a two day Fortran modernization workshop organized by Dr Wadud Miah (Numerical Algorithms Group), and Dr Nico De Tullio (University of Southampton). Centred around software engineering for computational sciences, the workshop gave participants hands on experience in modern ...
Today the NGCM were pleased to welcome fourth-year PhD student David Hahn from the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, to present research from the Wojtan group on physics-based visual effects for fractures and fluids.
David's work uses surface-based numerical methods to create realistic simulations of complex physical ...
In April 2015 there was a devastating earthquake in Nepal, killing thousands and displacing hundreds of thousands more. Robin Wilson was working for the Flowminder Foundation at the time, and was given the task of processing millions of rows of mobile phone call records to try and extract useful information ...
As part of the second annual NGCM Summer Academy, students and academics received a two day training course on the Pandas data analysis library for the Python programming language by Chris Fonnesbeck from the Department of Biostatistics at the Vanderbilt University and Skipper Seabold from Civis Analytics.
Pandas is an ...
Professor Marie Rognes teaching the hidden secrets of FEniCS.
As part of the NGCM Summer Academy 2016, Professor Marie Rognes delivered a two days workshop on FEniCS, a collaborative project for the development of innovative concepts and tools for automated scientific computing. Specifically, the workshop focused on the problem-solving environment ...
Adrian Jackson explaining how to handle data types for the Intel Xeon Phi.
On days 4 and 5 of the NGCM Summer Academy 2016, Adrian Jackson from EPCC gave an introduction to parallel programming with the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, including a lot of very useful hands-on advice on serial ...
A CPU (Central Processing Unit) typically has 2-6 cores that operate at a frequency between 1.5-3.5 GHz. A Graphics Processing Unit (GPUs) consist of 100s of cores that operate at a frequency of 500-900 MHz and it is typically used to compute the textures or even physics in ...
