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 …
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 Fortran programming and introduced them to commonly …
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 interactions, …
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 …
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 and parallel code optimisation. The course started with a general introduction to processors, …
Thu 23 June 2016 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 dolfin, with particular attention to …