Presentation by Dr Gabriel Weymouth On Tuesday 12 June, Dr Gabriel Weymouth, Associate Professor for the Marine and Maritime Institute at the University of Southampton, gave a seminar on advancements in fluid simulation software and the biologically-inspired engineering designs this has enabled. This research is motivated by recent interest in …
Presentation by Professor Syma Khalid Syma Khalid is a professor of computational biophysics at Southampton. She spoke to us on the 29th of May 2018 about the simulations constructed by her group with the aim of understanding bacterial cell walls. The discovery of antibiotics in the 20th century revolutionized medicine …
During the final two days of the third annual NGCM Summer Academy, students and academics received a two day training course on 3D visualisation using Mayavi and VTK from Prabhu Ramachandran from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Bombay. VTK is an open source library providing 3D visualisation and …
Using a modification package written for the popular children’s game Minecraft by Alvaro Perez-Diaz called PythonTool, several students from the CDT ran an event at the Winchester Science Centre where they introduced programming to young children via the popular game. The package allows users to write python code and then …
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 make participants aware of the many different ways of engaging the public with science and engineering research, and to inspire …
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. …