Scientific Computation Day

Date: 20 March 2017

Venue: Engineering Department Lecture Theatre 0 (LT0)

LT0 is the main lecture theatre near the ground floor entrance of the Engineering Department Baker Building in Trumpington Street.

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The “Scientific Computation Day” will take place at the Engineering Department on 20th March, 2017.
There will be a range of talks, covering the breadth of scientific computing which takes place in and around the University of Cambridge, as well as software engineering topics:

• Engineering Computation launch
• Scientific computing research around the University
• Research Software Engineering and best practice in scientific software development, sustainability
• Computing infrastructure and high-performance computing

We will also have a generous lunch and breaks, to allow people to talk to each other as much as possible.

Schedule

Registration and Poster setup (9:30 - 10:00)

Computing in Science (10:00 - 11:15)

• Garth Wells (Engineering)
  Welcome, Introduction and Overview
• David Wales (Chemistry)
  Energy Landscapes
• Mike Bithell (Geography)
  Modelling the Anthropocene
• Timothy Jones (Computer Lab)
  Automatically Exploiting Program Parallelism
• Nikos Nikiforakis (CSC)
  Computational Multi-Physics at the Centre for Scientific Computing

Coffee break (11:15 - 11:45)

Research Software Engineering 1 (11:45 - 12:45)

• Chris Richardson (BP Institute)
  Introduction
• Chris Pickard (Materials)
  A short history of the development of CASTEP
• James Hetherington (University College London)
  Computational Science as a Service
• Dave May (Earth Sciences, Oxford)
  Computational Geosciences at Oxford

Lunch and Posters (12:45 - 13:45)

Research Software Engineering 2 (13:45 - 14:30)

• Matthew Johnson (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
  Diversity in Research Software Engineering
• Daniela Butano (CSBC and Genetics)
  InterMine: Best Practices for Open Source Software

• Filippo Spiga (UIS)
  Research Computing at UIS

• Closing Remarks

Tea and biscuits (14:30-15:00)

Posters

• Matt Danish - CL
• Anita Faul - CSC
• Knut Sverdrup - CSC
• Cinly Ooi - BCNI
• Haran Jackson - CSC
• Eiko Yoneki - CL
• Gábor Csányi group - CUED
• Michelle Cain - CCCS
• Clare Macrae - CCDC
• Girish Nivarti - CUED
• Matthew Evans - CSC
• Zekang Cheng - BPI
• James Hetherington - UCL
• Andrew Thomas - Med School
• Matthias Haimel - Med School
• Zahra Fahmi - Babraham Institute
• Roberta Pigliapochi - Chemistry

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