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Past Events

The N8 CIR runs regular meetings to build communities of practice and research interests combined with training to improve the computational skills of the community. These are meetings that have been held in the last year. Selected recordings from these events can be found on our Event Resources pages.

19 APR
2021

Data Visualisation for Cultural Heritage Collections

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Data visualisation—making visual representations of datasets in graphs, charts, maps and other kinds of diagrams—is a powerful way of analysing, exploring and presenting cultural heritage data.

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13 APR
2021

Computer Vision for the Humanities

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification

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26 MAR
2021

RSE Leaders and Aspiring Leaders Event

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

N8 CIR is hosting an online meetup for research software engineering leaders and aspiring leaders.

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24 MAR
2021

RDM Network Event

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

The second meeting of our research data management network will take place on Wednesday 24 March.

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17 MAR
2021

Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

The CUDA computing platform enables the acceleration of CPU-only applications to run on the world’s fastest massively parallel GPUs.

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15 JAN

05 FEB
2021

Bede Instructors' Course

Registration is NOW CLOSED  22 day event   Online Event

This course has been developed by Martin Callaghan at the University of Leeds with the intention of helping to provide useful skills to the RSE team who will be supporting Bede.

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08 — 09
DEC
2020

Fundamentals of Deep Learning

Registration is NOW CLOSED  2 day event   Online Event

This workshop is now fully booked.

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25 NOV
2020

N8 RDM Network Launch Event

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Join us to celebrate the N8 RDM Network launch at our virtual kickstart event on November 25th 10-11:30 am, which will feature a series of short talks followed by a panel discussion.

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27 — 31
JUL
2020

University of Sheffield GPU Hackathon 2020

Registration is NOW CLOSED  5 day event   Online Delivery

Following the success of our 2019 event, the University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom) is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a 2020 GPU Hackathon as part of the international GPU Hackathon Series. However, this year's event will most likely be run online unless government restrictions around COVID-19 are significantly altered.

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29 JUL
2020

Microsoft Azure for Research

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

This short workshop, delivered by Microsoft’s Education Team, will introduce the Azure platform and how it can be used to support and accelerate research activity.

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22 JUL
2020

Python for Web Scraping - Digital Humanities

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

This workshop starts with an overview of using social media data for applications in digital humanities and an introduction to Python. It then covers Twitter data collection using the Twitter Developer API, data pre-processing and machine learning methods to process the collected data.

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21 JUL
2020

Introduction to Reproducible Analyses in R

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online delivery

A workshop to introduce the R programming language and help researchers to make their work transparent and reproducible.

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