Events Summaries
Swansea 4/4/2011--8/4/2011
he meeting will consist of eight half-day sessions, each concentrating on a particular research area that is currently attracting significant interest within the community. The sessions will address the following themes: Multiscale modelling Interface modelling PDEs on surfaces and geometric evolution problems Biomedical applications, including new modelling techniques and patient-specific applications Computational rheology Atomistic-to-continuum passage, density functional theory and quasi-continuum methods Low order modelling: widening the range of high-fidelity time-dependent simulations Uncertainty modelling Go To Event Website
Edinburgh 20/09/2010--22/09/2010
This is a workshop on Matrix and Operator Pencils, run by the EPSRC-funded MOPNET Network. The final day of the meeting is devoted to HPC issues and funded by NAIS. Go To Event Website
Specific Themes
Note: it is anticipated that the meeting will be wider than these topics, but many of the invited presentations will be focussed on these issues.
Edinburgh 30/06/2010--3/7/2010
This meeting will address formulation issues, numerical methods, and the implementation of algorithms for probing molecular models, especially multiscale simulation methods. We will bring together mathematicians and computer scientists with physical scientists, to accelerate the transfer of theoretical methodology mathematical ideas into applications.
NAIS is providing partial support for this meeting, with cosponsorship from the EPSRC Research Network on Mathematical Challenges of Molecular Dynamics, and the E-Science Institute Go To Event Website
Edinburgh 25/06/2010
This is the annual meeting of the Numerical Algorithms and Intelligent Software Centre. The meeting will feature talks by Laxmikant Kale (Illinois) and Andreas Frommer (Wuppertal) as well as presentations by NAIS Staff. This is an open event for UK researchers funded by the NAIS Centre. Go To Event Website
Edinburgh 23/06/2010--24/06/2010
The workshop is intended to be a mix of training and project- facilitation. It will include elements of pertinent training for NAIS members, plus consider key themes that will help us to explore the vision of NAIS and plan future research areas for the consortium. The themes are:
* Extreme-scale computing.
* Novel approaches to scientific computing.
The workshop is targeted at NAIS members and NAIS-Network affiliates. Go To Event Website
Edinburgh 3/6/2010
Open research discussions on NAIS-related topics Go To Event Website
Warwick University 20/05/2010--21/05/2010
The European Finite Element Fair (EFEF) is an annual series of completely informal small workshops throughout Europe with equal initial conditions for each speaker. EFEF provides a platform for high-level discussions on current research on finite element approximation, in the broadest sense, of partial differential equations. Authors are encouraged to present *one* new idea rather than review a full research project. In this spirit, the communication of recent and new results, even not yet published, is very welcome. A few, but strict, rules apply to EFEF in order to distinguish it from existing workshops and minisymposia in the field. Go To Event Website
Edinburgh 6/5/2010
Open research discussions on NAIS-related topics Go To Event Website
Edinburgh 3/5/2010--5/5/2010
At the heart of the schedule there will be a poster session by researchers describing current work and presentation booths for SMEs allowing a dynamic interaction. The event includes a number of presentations by SMEs describing what they do, what they want from researchers and what they want the EU to do to help them.
The event will also include several cluster meetings discussing research directions relevant to NAIS, such as parallel programming and multi-core platforms. In addition, one of our keynote speakers is Mario Nemirovsky from the Barcelona Supercomputer Center. Finally, there will also be a presentation by the EU Project Officer Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos, outlining substantial funding opportunities in 2011.
If you are interested in interacting with the best computer systems researchers in Europe, meeting new industrial partners and getting funded by the EU, then this event will be of interest to you.
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Edinburgh 6/4/2010--9/4/2010
The 2010 Joint Meeting will span 4 days and include a programme of plenary and other invited talks, focus sessions (special sessions and minisymposia), and contributed paper sessions. Each day will address a range of topics in pure and applied mathematics. Go To Event Website
Edinburgh 1/4/2010
Open research discussions on NAIS-related topics Go To Event Website
Edinburgh 4/3/2010
The Intelligent Software team will lead the discussion by explaining the principles of our approach to parallel software development, and in particular the ways in which this requires algorithm designers to think about and express their problems. Go To Event Website
Edinburgh 1/3/2010
The third session covers MPI, which is by far the most widely used library for message-passing parallelism. MPI can be called from Fortran, C and C++, and provides support for point-to-point and collective operations. The practical sessions involve writing simple parallel codes from scratch, to illustrate how to use the basic MPI operations in practice. Go To Event Website
Edinburgh 22/02/2010
The second session will cover OpenMP, the language most commonly used in computational science for shared-variables parallelism. OpenMP extends Fortran, C and C++, providing extensive support for loop-based and task-based parallelism. The practical sessions involve parallelising simple example codes to illustrate the basic OpenMP concepts and constructs.
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Edinburgh 15/02/2010
This three-day course gives an introduction to the basic concepts and programming techniques relevant to applied HPC and parallel computing. The first session will cover the fundamentals of modern HPC architectures and the two major parallel programming models: shared variables and message passing. Practical sessions will involve running existing parallel programs to investigate issues such as performance and scalability. Go To Event Website
Edinburgh 27/01/2010
The aim of this (informal) meeting is for people funded by NAIS project to get to know each other and learn about the various research activities that will progress during the first couple of years of the project. The plan is for a representative subset of the participants will have ~15 minutes to make a short presentation (slides encouraged, though not required) on their work/ likely involvement with the project. Go To Event Website
Edinburgh 11/9/2009
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Edinburgh 10/9/2009
Dr Erickson is a Senior Research Staff member in the Computational Earth Sciences Group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is an expert in numerical models of global bio-geo-chemistry, and has developed simulations and models for the impacts of aerosols, biomass burning and soil moisture anomalies on climate. Recent activities have been related to extreme events. He is collaborating with NCAR and NASA on integrating numerical atmospheric/climate models, assimilation models and satellite data.
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Edinburgh 9/9/2009
Dr Erickson is a Senior Research Staff member in the Computational Earth Sciences Group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is an expert in numerical models of global bio-geo-chemistry, and has developed simulations and models for the impacts of aerosols, biomass burning and soil moisture anomalies on climate. Recent activities have been related to extreme events. He is collaborating with NCAR and NASA on integrating numerical atmospheric/climate models, assimilation models and satellite data.
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