On Tuesday 18 January a small group of NGCM students and staff went to TeamSport in Eastleigh for Go Karting and pizzas – it was a fun-filled evening combining 2 racing sessions and pizzas. It was a well organised fun activity – after a safety briefing and getting kitted out …
We are all storytellers. For a great many of us, I suppose, research can often feel disjointed. A promising lab result here and a crashed simulation there can force us to fill up our minds with whatever is currently on the burner. We feel that we must, with laser focus, optimise …
A glimpse into high-performance sailing Summary of NGCM chat session held on Wednesday 17 June 2020; this included a presentation by Marin Lauber “Faster than the wind; a glimpse into high-performance sailing” followed by some questions and a chance to catch up with fellow NGCM students and academics. The field …
The 2019 NGCM Summer Academy took place between 01 – 05 July 2019 on University of Southampton’s Boldrewood Campus. Thanks to everyone who attended; we hope you had a great time and learned a lot! The 2019 CDT-NGCM Summer Academy at the University of Southampton was the last to be …
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 …
As part of the induction activities, the CDT students were given the following team building exercise. Given a printout of a computer-generated view of the Boldrewood campus (figure 1, top), they were given 30 minutes to re-create that scene as realistically as possible. Available props given were the Boldrewood campus …
