Computational modelling requires the use of advanced software tools, which are not always readily available for state-of-the art physics problems. By developing such software yourself, you do not only advance your own research, but also provide a tool that can be used throughout the community. In this talk, I will …
On the 14th and the 15th of June 2021, the Centre for Doctoral Training in Next-Generation Computational Modelling arranged a two-day intensive workshop on Natural Language Processing in Python. Natural Language Processing (NLP) seeks to obtain actionable insights from often vast amounts of language data, and has seen heightened …
Dirk Gorissen is one of the board members for our CDT-NGCM Strategic Advisory Board and delivered a virtual seminar to the NGCM cohorts and the faculty at large, giving his insight into the use of technical skills to benefit society in various ways. By presenting work undertaken throughout his career, …
Dirk Gorissen – Trying to Be Useful This seminar took place on Thursday 29 April 2021 13:00 – 14:30 In this digital age, contributing to society or engaging in development is no longer synonymous with handing out soup or installing water pumps. Doing data dives, labelling tweets, and flying drones …
A one-day coaching course by VOX Coaching took place on Wednesday 21 April 2021. “The way candidates conduct themselves, present ideas and respond to questions at interview has a powerful influence on the way they are perceived. Course participants learn how to rehearse for style and delivery as well as …
A one-day coaching course by VOX Coaching took place on Wednesday 10 March 2021. “For many, it is a terrifying prospect to stand up and speak in front of an audience. This course teaches techniques for managing nerves, rehearsing and preparing, enabling participants to speak compellingly under pressure. Students will come away …
Scientific computing and Noisy, intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) machines On 10th February 2021, we had the privilege of hearing from Prof Simon Benjamin’s QTech Theory group from the Materials Department at the University of Oxford. Their Quantum Exact Simulation Toolkit, QuEST, is the first open source simulator of universal quantum …
James graduated from the University of Southampton in 2018 with an NGCM funded thesis in theoretical particle physics involving both mathematical as well as data-science work and high-performance computing. He then decided to leave academia and took on a role as data analyst and developer at Flowminder, a Swedish non-profit …
This event took place on Wednesday 20 January 2021, 13:00 to 14:30 via Microsoft Teams. Dr James Harrison was an NGCM student at the University of Southampton, and completed his PhD in 2018. James’ PhD research was in the field of Lattice QCD (computational particle physics), supervised by Prof. Andreas …
On November 18th 2020 Dr Graham Hesketh, founder and CTO of the data science and cloud technology start-up Opsmorph, gave a talk on the transition from academia to data science for social science problems in industry. Dr Hesketh’s presentation discussed the transition from academic scientific computing to data science in …
