Hear inspirational speakers, learn how fellow researchers use HPC to advance their research and share best practices.
The event is a also great opportunity for you to network and establish collaborations with other supercomputing users.
Venue: The Chancellors' Building, Room 2.6
Morning session
9.30 Registration and refreshments in the foyer
10.00 Welcome and introduction, Professor James Davenport
10.05 Official launch of the Nimbus cloud supercomputer
Professor Ian White, Vice-Chancellor and President
10.15 Turbocharging your research with cloud HPC + AI
Dr Stefano Angioni, Research Computing Manager (Acting)
10.30 Keynote Talk: Modelling clouds in the cloud
Richard Lawrence, IT Fellow - Supercomputing, Met Office
11.15 Refreshments and delegation photography
11.45 Using 3-D satellite observations, spectral analysis and HPC to produce the world's largest climatology of atmospheric waves, Dr Neil Hindley
12.00 Surface-to-space atmospheric waves from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption, Dr Corwin Wright
12.15 Cluster-based HPC solution for logistic regression, random forest and XGBoost algorithms to predict memory impairment in older adults, Dr Prasad Nishtala
12.30 Simulations of the Realheart Total Artificial Heart Using a Novel Fluid-Structure Interaction Approach: The Influence of Heart Rate Variation, Joe Bornoff and Dr Katharine Fraser
12.45 Lunch in the foyer
Afternoon session
13.45 Afternoon Keynote: Future development of the Azure HPC platform, applications and intelligent services, Laura Parry, Senior HPC + AI Senior Specialist at Microsoft
14.15 Exact conservation laws for neural network integrators of dynamical systems, Dr Eike Mueller
14.30 Applications of multireference methods in computational chemistry, Dr Elizaveta Suturina
14.45 Survival analysis of a wave energy convertor, Dr Haoyu Ding
15.00 Rapid-fire poster presentations. Presenters: Samuel Espley, Samuel McCallum, Dr Kit McColl and Dr Lee Nissim.
15.15 Break and poster viewing
15.45 Electronic structure of two dimensional materials, Professor Daniel Wolverson
16.00 Using in-plane anisotropy to engineer Janus monolayers of rhenium dichalcogenides, Dr Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski
16.15 Anion-polarisation: Induced short-range-order in the heterocationic lithium-ion cathode material Li2FeSO, Dr Samuel Coles
16.30 Constraining the nuclear symmetry energy parameters with resonant shattering flares, Duncan Neill
16.45 A molecular dynamics approach to modelling oxygen diffusion in PLA and PLA clay nanocomposites, Dr Jasmine Lightfoot
17.00 The Electronic Structure and Cooperative Reactivity of a Highly Unusual Magnesium Sodium Complex, Dr Samuel Neale
17.15 Presentation of prizes and close of symposium
17.30 Pizza reception in the foyer
Who should attend
- Current and prospective users of Bath's Research Computing environments
- Researchers and PhD students doing computationally and data intensive research
