Dr. Shilong Lu and Fabrizio Lungo, researchers and developers at Fidelity Technologies Ltd., gave an informative presentation on Fidelity Technology Ltd.’s research strategies and product development, as well as detailing the challenges in developing an end-to-end real-time platform that provides meaningful and contextually appropriate interpretation of collected data, and delivers …
Jodie Walshe, Decision Support Manager for Engineering and Supply in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), gave a research seminar about the possibilities that computer modelling has to offer to many different aspects of the RNLI workings. He explained that the RNLI is funded by donations entirely, and it is …
This post follows after a seminar by Dr Hans Fangohr covering the usage of pelican and ReStructuredText to edit and create posts on the NGCM Blog. This post covers how to install pelican and set things up in OS X so that you can add posts to the NGCM blog. …
Dr Robin Wilson from Geography at Southampton gave a research seminar concentrating on the importance of reproducibility for satellite imaging. Dr Wilson explained the importance of satellite imaging for a broad range of applications, from disaster relief, government management and commercial exploitation. This computationally complex problem is challenging to automate, …
A 5-day intensive course on the foundations of Python was delivered by Dr Jacek Generowicz from 28 September to 2 October 2015, as joint training activity for the Centres for Doctoral Training in Complex Systems Simulations and Next Generation Computational Modelling A naive reading of the list of topics could …
Dr Lambkin from ABPmer opened the seminar series for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Next Generation Computational Modelling (NGCM) in the academic year 2015/2015, welcoming the new NGCM CDT students that have started in September 2015. Dr Lambkin explained why computer simulation is important for ABPmer and …
As part of the professional skills training, Dr Ian Hawke started the series of workshops by introducing the Git version control system. Git has become the de-facto standard in version control, and the NGCM doctoral students are introduced to it on the very first day in semester 1 of their …
The second group of doctoral students of the NGCM training centre has arrived in Southampton. The programme starts in the middle of September with tailored induction activities, which include an intensive 5-day programming course that introduces all students to Python, information about the upcoming taught programme, research opportunities, engagement with …
The NGCM programming primer is the first experience of each new cohort entering into the CDT. It‘s a 35-hour intensive Python course ran by Hans Fangohr, the director of the NGCM. Designed to get everyone ready for the first year of taught study. The course consists of taught informal lectures …
As part of the NGCM Summer Academy I took part in a three day workshop which was lead by Min RK one of the core developers of both IPython and Project Jupyter. To avoid confusion it should be noted that Jupyter is the new incarnation of what was known as …