On the 14th and the 15th of June 2021, the Centre for Doctoral Training in Next-Generation Computational Modelling arranged a two-day intensive workshop on Natural Language Processing in Python. Natural Language Processing (NLP) seeks to obtain actionable insights from often vast amounts of language data, and has seen heightened …
A one-day coaching course by VOX Coaching took place on Wednesday 21 April 2021. “The way candidates conduct themselves, present ideas and respond to questions at interview has a powerful influence on the way they are perceived. Course participants learn how to rehearse for style and delivery as well as …
A one-day coaching course by VOX Coaching took place on Wednesday 10 March 2021. “For many, it is a terrifying prospect to stand up and speak in front of an audience. This course teaches techniques for managing nerves, rehearsing and preparing, enabling participants to speak compellingly under pressure. Students will come away …
Geospatial data is the geographic data around us, it contains location information as well as extra information known as attribute information. This data can range from things like smart phones GPS information to voting preferences across a country to natural geographic features like the distribution of natural water sources, amongst …
NGCM students recently had the opportunity to take part in an AgileFrame project management course developed and run by Dr Serkan Ceylan; this was an online format which ran over 4 days in June 2020. The course gave a framework for successful project management which aimed to combine the strengths …
An AgileFrame Project Management course was offered by the NGCM CDT. Initially this was intended to be a three-day AgileFrame® Project Management course on the University campus in April 2020. The course was postponed and was rearranged in an online format to run over 4 Thursdays in June 2020 (June 04, 11, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
