CoSeC
March 3rd - 4th saw Dr. Barbara Montanari, (Director of CoSeC) participating in the Royal Society Yusuf Hamied Workshop for India and the UK, which is part of the Royal Society Yusuf Hamied Programme for India Organised by the Royal Society and the Indian National Science Academy. As part of the Royal Society Yusuf Hamied Programme for India, this bilateral workshop is multidisciplinary and focussed on Scientific applications of high performance computing and machine learning, and Understanding brain structure and function: from molecules to mind. The primary objectives of the workshop are to stimulate discussion and networking, and to foster international collaboration.
Barbara gave an invited talk on “The UK Software ecosystem: challenges and opportunities for materials research at the exascale" within the topic stream on Scientific applications of high performance computing and machine learning. Following an overview of the UK software landscape with contributions from EPSRC1 and the Society of RSE2, Dr. Montanari presented challenges and opportunities for materials research from the perspective of the ExCALIBUR3-funded Materials and Molecular Modelling Exascale Design and Development Working Group, which involves several CoSeC, STFC scientists (Dr. Ian Bush, Dr. Tom Keal, and Dr. Alin Elena).
Recognitions
Dr. Leon Petit (of STFC and Project Lead of CCP9: Collaborative Computational Project for the Study of the Electronic Structure of Condensed Matter) and Dr. Viv Kendon (of Durham University and Chair of CCP-QC: Collaborative Computational Project for Quantum Computing) have both been recognised by the American Physical Society as two of their 151 'Outstanding Referees' for 2021. They were selected from around 71,000 active referees for the collection of Physical Review Journals. Further details
Congratulations to Dr. Jian Fang (STFC) for winning the 2021 UKTC (UK Turbulence Community) Video competition. Jian's work illustrates a new turbulence amplification mechanism based on the analysis of data from direct numerical simulation of an oblique shock-wave/flat-plate boundary layer interaction at Mach 2.25, and was published in the Journal of Fluid Dynamics; the video is available here.
Events
Workshop
Dr. Charles Moulinec (STFC) and Dr. Juan Uribe (EDF) ran an online training course on Nuclear thermal hydraulics (NTH) modelling using Code_Saturne. Jointly organised by PRACE4, CCP-NTH, and CCP-Turbulence, registration closed early to limit the number of particpants to 20.
Up-coming
Conference
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Multiscale modelling conference March 29-31.
Workshops
CCP-WSI Code Developer's Workshop – 7-8 April 2021 The second CCP-WSI Code Developers Workshop will provide a forum for computer modelling discussions relevant to a broad range of Wave-Structure-Interaction (WSI) challenges. It will bring together computer scientists and CFD engineers to provide a focus for software development and code rationalisation with the ultimate goal of developing a framework for innovation and development of strategic software for WSI applications. The Workshop will consist of a number of presentations from invited speakers, to highlight the state-of-the-art in WSI simulations, followed by panel discussions centred around four key WSI themes. Further details and registration
UK Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics R-Matrix Consortium (UK-AMOR) online workshop, Atomic and Molecular Data Needs for Plasma Applications, 13-15 April 2021. The meeting is organized jointly by the High End Computing (HEC) Consortia UK-AMOR and the Plasma HEC, and Collaborative Computational Projects CCP-Plasma and CCPQ, and will explore areas of mutual interest to the "Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics" and "Plasma Physics" theory and modelling communities. The meeting will focus on both state-of-the-art atomic and molecular data, and practical applications of this data to plasma applications including nuclear fusion. The workshop also aims to boost effective communications between the communities and to strengthen inter-disciplinary links and collaborations. Further details and registration
Summer School
Registration is now open for the CCP5 Summer School (11-22 July), which will be held entirely online this year.
