On the 25th of April David Lusher and Kieran Selvon gave a workshop on the Pandas Python “Data Analysis” library as part of the FEE module Advance Computational Methods II. The event was popular with attendees from outside the faculty including PhD and undergraduate students. Python is a becoming an …
Dr David Henty, a member of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the University of Edinburgh and the programme director of the MSc in High Performance Computing/High Performance computing with Data Science, ran a 3 day training course at the University of Southampton on the use of MPI to …
The University of Southampton’s Science and Engineering Day 2016 attracted several thousand visitors and take part in the activities available. Amongst a wide variety of displays and hands-on experiments at Highfield Campus, there were also a number of exhibits at the new Boldrewood Innovation Campus. This included a flight simulator, …
As part of the Advanced Computational Methods 2 module, Craig started the presentation by showing the capabilities of Reveal.JS such as themes, transitions and the ability to work with Markdown or use dynamic graphs such as those produced by D3.js. Kostas then went on to live-code the skeleton html file …
As part of the student-led workshops of Advanced Computational Methods II module, NGCM students Gabriele Boschetto and Alejandra Vergara prepared a 2-hours workshop focused on the introduction to LaTeX and BibTeX . LaTeX is a typesetting system that produces professional documents with high typographical quality and BibTeX is a powerful …
As part of the Advanced Computational Methods 2 module, iPhD students at NGCM CdT Emanuele Zappia and Hossam Ragheb delivered an introduction to the overall idea of computing with units approach in a form of a workshop. Specifically, the workshop focused on the Python library Pint. In the first part, …
As part of the Advanced Computational Methods 2 module, Ashley Setter and Thorsten Wittemeier gave an introduction to Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) with OpenSCAD. A complete blog post accompanying this session is provided here. Ash started by giving a general introduction to CSG. Constructive solid geometry is an approach to …
As part of the Advanced Computational Methods 2 module, Hans Fangohr started with an introduction to modern task management workflows such as Getting Things Done and Inbox zero. The slides are available. The session was open to all students at the University. In the second part of the sessions, students …