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SUMMARY:UBiKuity: Trying to get RSE right on the first try - Thomas Daggit
 t - British Antarctic Survey
DTSTART:20260205T130000Z
DTEND:20260205T140000Z
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CONTACT:Jack Atkinson
DESCRIPTION:UBiKuity is a software library that I am currently developing 
 to model the behaviour of charged particles in magnetic and electric field
 s\, with the intention of eventually converting it into a full magnetosphe
 ric plasma model. It uses an under-explored mathematical formulation of ch
 arged particle motion to generate powerful insights into the phase space o
 f possible particle behaviour. It combines a variety of numerical methods 
 to find solutions to differential equations\, with most of the numerical c
 ode written in Fortran. As it is intended to be shared both within my rese
 arch group\, and eventually with the wider community\, I am simultaneously
  writing a Python wrapper to improve its usability.\n\nLike many other pie
 ces of software in the scientific community\, UBiKuity has been written by
  someone with little to no training in programming software engineering. B
 ecause of this\, I have tried to treat this first foray into research soft
 ware engineering as something of a learning experience. This talk will dis
 cuss some of the challenges I have faced in attempting to write shareable\
 , performant code to solve a complex research problem.
LOCATION:Room C\, West Hub
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