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, …
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 …
Dr Joseph Barker from the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan, has given a research seminar as part of his visit to the University of Southampton this week. Atomistic spin dynamics (ASD) is often used when considering temperature dependent effects need to be combined with dynamics in magnetic materials. …
Mike Wong from Integration Systems (formerly iSys Capital Technologies) introduced the computational challenges in the financial sector, in particular in trading context. He introduced important characteristics such as latency, lag, and jitter and the relevance associated with each of them for computer systems applied in financial markets. Mike managed to …
Dr David Toal from the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre for Computational Engineering in Southampton recently gave a talk on turbine blade design in the presence of uncertainty and (despite a power outage in most of Southampton that afternoon) presented the associated design and research challenges. Dr Toal introduced the audience …
Dr Andreas Jüttner, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southampton, gave a seminar on computer simulation of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). QCD is the theory governing interactions between quarks and gluons within hadrons, such as protons and neutrons. Dr Jüttner introduced the Standard Model of Particle …
Presentation by Dr Thomas Blumensath Dr Blumensath came to give a presentation on his work in x-ray computed tomography – the process of reconstructing the interior structure of objects using x-ray’s. We were introduced to the basic model of x-ray absorption that allows for reconstruction to take place. This model …
Optical fibres dominate the telecommunication industry for data transfer and are also used as an active gain medium (doped with rare earth elements) in fibre lasers. Both these application of optical fibres use single mode beams. Dr Peter Horak pointed out that if single mode optical fibres are to be …
Dr Florian Rathgeber introduced the Firedrake project. Similar to the FEniCS project, the end user specifies their (partial differential) equations in a domain specific language (UFL) as a weak form. The framework then translates this into fast compiled executable code, in principle for a number of different computational backends, such …
Mon 24 November 2014 Sham Mustapha and Alex Sheen visited the CDT in Next Generation Computational Modeling from Boeing Defense UK, part of The Boeing Company that employs 170,000 people globally; 1,800 in the UK. Boeing’s business comprises Commercial Airplanes and Defense, Space and Security. Boeing is the largest aerospace …