Events (5)

School of Computing PhD Workshop Series - Final Event
Oct 31, 2018

Location	16:00 in CoRe44 (room C44) Merchiston Campus
Description	Please join us for the closing event of the PhD masterclass. As a reminder, PhD masterclass was a seminar series run last semester to promote knowledge and skills exchange between students. For this closing event, there will be 4 short talks on: How can students take a step towards research impact? Lindsey Middleton How to simplify reality ? An introduction to the purposes and approaches of modelling Cedric Perret Why statistics matter Sean McKeown Visualising your results and other tricks with R Andreas Steyven The seminar starts at 4pm in C44 and it is followed by a social gathering (including a lot of food). All students and staff welcome.
People	Sean McKeown Andreas Steyven
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

10 reasons why I should learn about HPC - School of Computing PhD Workshop Series
Feb 7, 2018

Location	CORE44, room C44 Merchiston Campus
Description	High Performance Computing (HPC) is a fundamental technology used in solving scientific problems. Many of the grand challenges of science depend on simulations and models run on HPC facilities to make progress; for example: protein folding, the search for the Higgs boson, and developing nuclear fusion. In this talk, several key concepts about HPC will be introduced. In addition, we will also talk about ARCHER, the latest UK National Supercomputing Service, and how to make the most of it by requesting ARCHER time or attending training courses, among others. Speaker: Dr Juan Rodriguez Herrera (EPCC) I joined EPCC as an Applications Developer in December 2015 after completing a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Almeria (Spain). At EPCC, I am currently involved in the NEXTGenIO project (an EC H2020 project about the I/O challenge for the Exascale), and the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research. I am also one of the ARCHER Helpdesk team. Occasionally I collaborate in teaching ARCHER training courses as well as Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry workshops.
People	Andreas Steyven
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

3rd BiVi: Biological Visualisation Conference and Training Workshop
Apr 20, 2017

Location	Craiglockhart Campus 219 Colinton Road Edinburgh EH14 1DJ
Description	The Biological Visualisation Community's 3rd Annual Meeting takes place at Craiglockhart Campus in Edinburgh on 20th-21st April 2017. This two day meeting comprises one day with 3 keynotes, 7 talks on biological data visualisation as well as lightning talks, posters and demos. The second day involves hands-on training workshops. The talks and training include information visualisation across the whole spectrum of biological data types. This is a meeting of interest to anybody working in biomedical science as well as developers of visualisation techniques. The keynote speakers are: - Jean-luc Doumont: The Three Laws of Communication - Marc Streit: From Visual Exploration of Biomedical Data to Storytelling and Back Again - Bang Wong: Art and Science: A partnership catalyzing discovery in biomedicine Registration is £50. We also have student bursaries available for research degree students to cover the costs of attending.
People	Jessie Kennedy Alan Cannon
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
URL	http://bivi.co/event/3rd-bivi-annual-meeting

PhD students present their work at the school of computing post-graduate research conference
May 11, 2016

Location	H5 & H9 Merchiston Campus
Description	This years post-graduate research conference will be held Wednesday (11th of May) on H-floor.  Presentations and the keynote will be in H5, the poster session, breaks and the reception will be in H9. We are proud to welcome Dr Wendy Moncur from the University of Dundee as this years keynote speaker. The programme schedule, the running order of all sessions, presentation titles and abstracts and can be downloaded here: http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/~zz388/soc-pgrc2016/SoC-PGRC2016-Programme.pdf The conference is organised and chaired by student volunteers and Dr Kevin Chalmers.
People	Frances Ryan Andreas Steyven Baraq Ghaleb
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

Ahmed Al-Dubai organised the annual Firbush trip, workshop for the 1st and 2nd PhD students of School of Computing
May 4, 2015

People	Ahmed Al-Dubai
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment