N8 CIR is delighted to announce its first in-person event since March 2020.
Starting at 10am, the event will use keynotes, presentations and lightning talks to celebrate the work and achievements of N8 CIR over the last 12 months.
N8 CIR's successful application to become a chapter of Women in HPC
The launch of our new machine learning research theme
Agenda
10am, Registration and Coffee
10.30am, Welcome and Introductions - Colin Bain,
10.45am, Keynote 1, Women in HPC - Alison Kennedy, Director of the Hartree Centre
11.15am, N8 CIR WHPC Chapter Overview - Marion Weinzierl, RSE Theme Leader and the WHPC Action Group
11.30am, Keynote 2, Using Bede - Syma Khalid, Professor of Computational Microbiology, University of Oxford and Sarah Harris, Associate Professor of Biological Physics, University of Leeds
12 noon, Lunch
1.00pm, EPSRC - Billy McGregor, EPSRC Portfolio Manager
1.15pm, DiRAC - Mark Wilkinson, DiRAC Director
1.30pm, Bede System Overview - Alan Real (N8 CIR Technical Director) and Andrew Laidlaw (IBM)
1.50pm, N8 CIR Research Themes, including the launch of our new machine learning thread - Matt Probert, Director N8 CIR, David Hogg, Professor of Artifical Intelligence, University of Leeds and Theme Leaders https://n8cir.org.uk/themes/
2.20pm, Lightning Talks
2.40pm, Coffee
3.10pm, Lightning Talks
3.40pm, CIUK Cluster Competition, Holger Schulz and the UKRI Cluster Competition Team
4.00pm, Close - Matt Probert and Alan Real
Lightning Talks
Oras Al-Ani - A Review on the Role of Materials Engineering in Renewable Energy Sources
Alison Clarke - From Turtles to HPC: Agent-based Modelling of a Classroom
Jochen Einbeck - The Condor Cluster in Mathematical Sciences
Phil Hasnip - TBC
Dave Horsfall - RSE Mental Health
Chris Jewell - Putting Epidemic Modelling into Practice in the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Response
Anna Krystalli - Building Communities of Practice in Reproducibility
Paul Richmond - Complex Systems Simulation on Complex Computing Architectures
Health and Safety
Durham university requires staff, students, and visitors to wear face masks or coverings if they can whilst on campus. This will include the Teaching and Learning Centre, where this event is due to take place. The venue has a capacity well in excess of the number of available places, which means you will be able to socially distance whilst listening to speaker presentations.
We would encourage attendees to take a lateral flow test no earlier than 48 hours before the event. If a positive test is returned then please do not attend.
Please remember to use your .ac.uk address when registering, this helps us to ensure you are eligible for the session. If you work for a partner organisation such as STFC there is a separate checkbox in the registration form.
