Sixth Annual DiRAC Science Day

Thursday, 8 September 2016 - 09:00
James Clerk Maxwell Building, The King's Building (Lecture Theatre A)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Sep 2016
AM
10:00 --- Coffee & registration ---
10:30
Plenary session -Prof. Peter Boyle (Edinburgh) (until 12:45) (Lecture Theatre A)
10:30 Opening - Dr Jeremy Yates (DiRAC)   (Lecture Theatre A)
10:50 DiRAC discussion - Prof. Christine Davies (University of Glasgow)   (Lecture Theatre A)
11:15 Simulating realistic galaxy clusters - Ms Monique A. Henson (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester)   (Lecture Theatre A)
11:45 UKQCD review - Dr Nicolas Garron (University of Liverpool)   (Lecture Theatre A)
Slides
12:15 Gravitational waves, numerical relativity, and measuring black holes - Prof. Mark Hannam (Cardiff University)   (Lecture Theatre A)
Slides
PM
12:45
Lunch & poster session (until 14:00) (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 $D$ and $D_s$ decay constants from Domain Wall Fermions with physical pion masses - Mr Justus Tobias Tsang (University of Southampton)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 3D Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Carbon Shell in a Massive Star - Mr Andrea Cristini (Keele University)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 COSMOS Intel Parallel Computing Centre: from algorithms to architectures - Prof. Paul Shellard (University of Cambridge)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Dynamical perturbations on cosmic string solutions in full general relativity - Mr Thomas Helfer (Kings College London)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Exploring Large Scale Flows and Molecular Cloud Formation in Galaxy Simulations - Mr Gerardo Ramon Fox (University of St. Andrews)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Galactic Feedback and the Circumgalactic Medium - Dr Mark Richardson (University of Oxford)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 GRChombo: Numerical relativity with adaptive mesh refinement - Dr Eugene Lim (King's College London) Mr Thomas Helfer (Kings College London)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Grid: A next generation data parallel C++ QCD library - Dr Azusa Yamaguchi (Software Architect)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Impacts of nuclear physics uncertainty on nucleosynthesis on a Monte-Carlo Method - Dr Nobuya Nishimura (Keele University)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Magnetic fields in galaxies: the small-scale dynamo in a cosmological context - Mr Sergio Martin-Alvarez (University of Oxford)   (Lecture Theatre A)
Slides
12:45 Measuring non-Gaussianity in galaxy surveys: a new window on the Universe - Prof. Paul Shellard (University of Cambridge)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Models of Fully-Convective Stars: Differential Rotation, Meridional Circulation and Residual Entropy - Mr Felix Sainsbury-Martinez (University of Exeter)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Multigrid for Chiral Fermions - Prof. Peter Boyle (Edinburgh)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Radiation hydrodynamics of mini-haloes and their contribution to reionisation - Dr Taysun Kimm (KICC and IoA, University of Cambridge)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Radiative transfer simulations of the lyman alpha forest: Does the QSOs dominate the UVB at z~6 ? - Dr Jonathan Chardin (Institute of Astronomy (IOA) and Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge (KICC), University of Cambridge)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Recent Results from the Multi-dimensional Stellar Implicit Code - Dr Tom Goffrey (University of Exeter)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Semi-leptonic B−decays - Dr Oliver Witzel (University of Edinburgh)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Shaken and stirred - the role of turbulence, rotation, magnetism, and radiation in the formation of protostars - Mr Benjamin Lewis (University of Exeter)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 SWIFT - Vectorisation - Mr James Willis (ICC, Durham University)   (Lecture Theatre A)
Poster
12:45 The intergalactic medium at the end of reionization - Ms Laura Keating (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 The MACSIS Project: Simulating the giants of the Universe - Ms Monique A. Henson (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester)   (Lecture Theatre A)
Slides
12:45 The Spin of the Proton - Dr Roger Horsley (University of Edinburgh)   (Lecture Theatre A)
12:45 Using the AREPO code to study the ISM - Dr Rowan Smith (University of Manchester)   (Lecture Theatre A)
14:00
Science parallel session -Dr Matthew Wingate (University of Cambridge) (until 15:30) (Lecture Theatre B)
14:00 THE HVP contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon - Prof. Christine Davies (University of Glasgow)   (Lecture Theatre B)
Slides
14:30 Robustness of Inflation to Inhomogenous Inflation - Dr Eugene Lim (King's College London)   (Lecture Theatre B)
14:50 A critical view of the interstellar medium modelling in cosmological simulations - Mr Matthew Smith (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)   (Lecture Theatre B)
Slides
15:10 Magnetic fields in galaxies: the small-scale dynamo in a cosmological context - Mr Sergio Martin-Alvarez (University of Oxford)   (Lecture Theatre B)
Slides
14:00
Technical parallel session -Dr Antonin Portelli (The University of Edinburgh) (until 15:30) (Lecture Theatre A)
14:00 Emerging technologies - Prof. Peter Boyle (Edinburgh)   (Lecture Theatre A)
14:30 Grid, a next generation data parallel C++ library - Dr Guido Cossu (Edinburgh University)   (Lecture Theatre A)
Slides
14:50 An Overview of the DiRAC-3 Benchmark Suite - Dr Richard Rollins (DiRAC / University of Manchester)   (Lecture Theatre A)
Slides
15:10 SWIFT - Scaling on next generation architectures - Mr James Willis (ICC, Durham University)   (Lecture Theatre A)
Slides
15:30 --- Coffee break & poster prize announcement ---
16:00
Science parallel session -Dr Matthew Wingate (University of Cambridge) (until 17:00) (Lecture Theatre B)
16:00 From seed to supermassive: growing black holes at high redshift - Ms Ricarda Beckmann (University of Oxford)   (Lecture Theatre B)
Slides
16:20 Planet formation and disc evolution - Dr Richard Booth (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK)   (Lecture Theatre B)
Slides
16:40 Modelling the birth of a star - Dr James Wurster (University of Exeter)   (Lecture Theatre B)
Slides
16:00
Technical parallel session -Dr Antonin Portelli (The University of Edinburgh) (until 17:00) (Lecture Theatre A)
16:00 Co-design of Cray Software Components - Adrian Tate (Cray)   (Lecture Theatre A)
Slides
16:30 AAAI, Cloud & Data Managment; DiRAC in the National E-Infrastructure - Dr Jeremy Yates (DiRAC)   (Lecture Theatre A)
17:00 --- Drink reception ---
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