Presentation by Dr. Dominic Orchard 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 make mistakes. “The …
Presentation by Dr. Jordan Cheer 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: Acoustics Dynamics Signal Processing and Control …
Presentation by Joshua Greenhalgh 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 in 1917 with the …
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 provides funding for the CDT; Prof. Colin Please of Oxford University, who is …
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. …
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 to achieving impact and it was …
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 object. Typically for high mass X-ray binaries the companion …
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 and research interests with a need to be able to code. The code …
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 be created in the terminal using conda create -n blog …
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 saltwater and …