GitHub Essentials for Researchers

Juan Pablo Flores - GitHub Education.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Supporting Digital Humanities Students

Jonathan Blaney - Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Talk Cancelled: Less is more

Anita Faul.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

An AI tool for Dementia.

Simon Clifford - RCS, University of Cambridge.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Open source research software project life cycles: understanding project maturity successes, and challenge events

Yo Yehudi - Open Life Sciences.

West Hub, East 1.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

In the age of the metaverse, metadata is even more important

Chris Wood - EPCC.

West Hub, East 1.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Nonlinear Preconditioning for Implicit Solution of Discretized PDEs

Note change of venue

David Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, CB3 0EZ.

Friday 27 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

Time-parallel integration and phase averaging for the rotating shallow water equations on the sphere

Hiroe Yamazaki - Imperial College London.

West Hub, South Room.

Thursday 13 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Who said using GPUs was straightforward? - Straightforward GPU programming in SYCL and OpenMP

Tobias Weinzierl - University of Durham.

West Hub, South Room.

Thursday 30 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Computational aspects of bio-image analysis with focus on lightsheet microscopy

Leila Muresan - PDN, University of Cambridge.

West Hub, West 1.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

From research to operation - development of a space weather forecast system

Sarah Glauert & Peter Kirsch - British Antarctic Survey.

West Hub, South Room.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Open Discussion and Soft Launch of a CambRidge Community

Thomas Zwagerman, BAS, Charlie Gao, Hibiki AI, Jack Atkinson, ICCS/University of Cambridge.

West Hub, South Room.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

From Machine Learning Parameterization to Full Model Emulation

David John Gagne - Head of Machine Integration and Learning for Earth Systems, NCAR.

MR5 DAMTP and online.

Friday 03 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

Optimal approaches with Zig

Fergus Baker - University of Bristol.

West Hub, South Room.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Tagging Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculptures Using Multi-Label Image Classification ML Techniques

Zeynep Aki - RSE, University of Durham.

West 2, West Hub.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

TexGen - Open-Source Software for Geometric Modelling of Textile Structures

Louise Brown - University of Nottingham.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Pydantic: A Package for Picky Python Programmers

Paul Sharp - STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Research Software Engineering in the Arts and Humanities : a community-driven approach

Anna-Maria Sichani - Digital Humanities Research Hub, University of London.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

NixOS: Pros and cons of truly reproducible builds

Ben Orchard - ICCS, University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Web Applications for Research: How to navigate tech stacks, dev-ops and UI/UX

Mark Turner - Head of RSE, Newcastle University.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Software architecture: between rigid process and ´somehow I manage´ approach

Jasmin Jahić - Computer Lab, University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Debugging HPC applications

Tom Meltzer - ICCS University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

How not to write a convection parameterisation code?

Mike Whitall - UK Meteorological Office.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Teaching RSE for Digital Humanities

Mary Chester-Kadwell.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Sustainability at The Netherlands eScience Center

Niels Drost - Netherlands eScience Centre and NL-RSE.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Widening Participation in the R Project

Heather Turner - Warwick University and R.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fortran 77: It's really C with none of the safeguards

Simon Clifford - RSE, University of Cambridge.

West 1, West Hub.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Code Execution during peer review with CODECHECK

Daniel Nüst, ifgi, TU Dresden.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

A random walk through Julia

Valentin Churavy - julialab, MIT.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Facing the MUSIC: towards a robust and flexible research code for stellar hydrodynamics

Thomas Guillet, Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter.

West 1, West Hub.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fpm and Stdlib: Recent developments in the Fortran Ecosystem

Laurence Kedward, RSE, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol.

West Hub, South Room.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Benchmarking with ReFrame

Tuomas Koskela - RSE, University College London.

West Hub, West 1.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Lowering the barrier to entry for GPU acceleration in complex systems simulation

Paul Richmond, Institute of Computing for Climate Science.

Virtual Only.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Automated and Semi-Automated bug finding for Fortran

Dominic Orchard - ICCS, Universities of Cambridge and Kent.

West Hub, East 2.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Packaging and Publishing your Python code

Liam Pattinson, RSE, York Plasma Institute.

West Hub, West 1.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Rust: first impressions and rough guide

Matthew Scroggs, UCL.

West Hub, South Room.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Using SYCL kernels for Finite Element assembly

Igor Baratta.

West Hub, South Room.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Using the LIKWID tool suite

Thomas Gruber.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 03 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

A summary of the reproducibility initiative for SC21

Kiril Dichev (University of Cambridge).

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 27 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

In-situ visualization of AMR datasets with ParaView Catalyst and Intel OSPRay

(University of Cambridge).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Latest RSE developments in RCS

Christopher Edsall (University of Cambridge).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, and on Zoom.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

A Comparison of Shared-Memory Parallel Programming Models for Accelerating Sparse Linear Algebra Kernels: OpenMP vs SYCL

Athena Elafrou, UIS.

Virtual Meeting; Zoom link in description.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Improving models of ocean turbulence with data-driven methods

Sam Lewin (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

Virtual Meeting; MS Teams link in description.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

POSTPONED - Improving models of ocean turbulence with data-driven methods

Sam Lewin ( Research Software Engineering, University of Cambridge).

Maxwell Centre, possibly. Else on Zoom. Link will be provided..

Thursday 21 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Understand and tune application-level GPU performance using NVIDIA Nsight Systems

Filippo Spiga, NVIDIA.

Virtual Meeting; Zoom link in description.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences: Computational Modelling Services

Grenville Lister, NCAS.

Virtual Meeting; Zoom link will be available on the day..

Wednesday 23 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Ripple: A C++ cross-GPU optimizing framework

Robert Clucas (University of Cambridge).

Virtual Meeting; meet.google.com/edp-ekea-vcr.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Full-stack CFD on AWS

Dr Nandan Gokhale (University of Cambridge).

Virtual Meeting; Zoom link will be available on the day..

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

How to Measure, Visualise and Interpret Performance Portability

Dr Tom Deakin (University of Bristol).

Virtual Meeting; Zoom link will be available on the day..

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

The Multiscale Universal Interface Code Coupling Library

Stephen Longshaw, STFC.

Virtual Meeting; Zoom link will be available on the day..

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Spack: the HPC package manager

Chris Richardson (University of Cambridge).

Virtual Meeting; Zoom link will be available on the day..

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Running the CSC network

Dr Philip Blakely (University of Cambridge).

Virtual Meeting; Zoom link in description.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Life is not FAIR but your software could be

Lauren Cadwallader (University of Cambridge).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Research in the Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Philip Blakely (University of Cambridge).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Ptycho! Image processing diffraction patterns

Chris Richardson (University of Cambridge).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Porting the astrophysical fluid dynamics application PROMPI to GPU

Dr Eleftherios Avramidis, UIS, University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamFort: lightweight verification for scientific Fortran

Matthew Danish (University of Cambridge).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Developing Online Tools for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk Prediction.

Andrew Lee, CRUK.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

How to do virtually everything with the Met Office Unified Model

Luke Abraham (University of Cambridge).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

A Reynolds-robust preconditioner for the 3D stationary Navier-Stokes equations

Patrick Farrell, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

MPI in TROVE: calculating high temperature line lists for large polyatomic molecules

Arjen Tamerus, UIS, University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Pushing the limits of exoplanet discovery via direct imaging with deep learning

Dr Piero Coronica, UIS, University of Cambridge.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Nektar++: an open-source spectral/hp element frameworks

Chris Cantwell, Imperial College London.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

The model is simple until proven otherwise

Anita Faul, LSC, University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

InSitu visualisation for large simulations

Kacper Kornet, DAMTP.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Machine learning approximations in finite volume methods

Sam Lewin, Research Software Engineering, University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Performance and scaling improvements for CASTEP

Research Software Engineering, University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Webassembly for total beginners (like me)

Chris Richardson (University of Cambridge).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Introduction to the University HPC system (Cumulus)

Jeffrey Salmond and Chris Richardson.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Image Processing for Fluorescence Microscopy

Leila Muresan (University of Cambridge).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Accelerating discrete element method (DEM) simulations in LAMMPS

Jeffrey Salmond (University of Cambridge).

Rutherford seminar room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Simple steps to improve reproducibility of your computational research

Stephen Eglen (University of Cambridge).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Using Revision Control - an introduction

Mark Williamson ( Department of Chemistry).

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

High-performance Artificial Intelligence. Scaling DL on Supercomputers.

Matt Archer, UIS.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Introduction to Finite Element Methods using Jupyter Notebooks

Chris Richardson (University of Cambridge).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Espresso: A high-performance GPU simulation code

Filippo Spiga.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Parallel I/O and HDF5

Philip Blakely (University of Cambridge).

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

One spiral to rule them all: and in the darkness bind them

Roman Klapauch (UCL).

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Debugging using valgrind

Philip Blakely (University of Cambridge).

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Profiling HPC applications

Philip Blakely (University of Cambridge).

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Using Python Packages - and interfacing

Chris Richardson (University of Cambridge).

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Docker Containers for Research

Chris Richardson (BPI).

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

How to work with other geographically dispersed people

David Rees-Jones.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Using the Git revision control system

Mark Williamson, Department of Chemistry.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

What every researcher should know about software development

Chris Richardson, BP Institute.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 13:00-14:00