Sixth Annual DiRAC Science Day

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Sessions

8 Sep 2016
Plenary session

09:30—09:50

Opening (0h20′)

Speaker(s):

• Yates, Jeremy (DiRAC)

09:50—10:15

DiRAC discussion (0h25′)

Speaker(s):

• Davies, Christine (University of Glasgow)

10:15—10:45

Simulating realistic galaxy clusters (0h30′)

Speaker(s):

• Henson, Monique A. (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester)

10:45—11:15

UKQCD review (0h30′)

Speaker(s):

• Nicolas GARRON (University of Liverpool)

11:15—11:45

Gravitational waves, numerical relativity, and measuring black holes (0h30′)

Speaker(s):

• Hannam, Mark (Cardiff University)

8 Sep 2016
Lunch & poster session

11:45—13:00

Magnetic fields in galaxies: the small-scale dynamo in a cosmological context (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Martin-Alvarez, Sergio (University of Oxford)

11:45—13:00

GRChombo: Numerical relativity with adaptive mesh refinement (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Helfer, Thomas (Kings College London)

11:45—13:00

Measuring non-Gaussianity in galaxy surveys: a new window on the Universe (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Paul SHELLARD (University of Cambridge)

11:45—13:00

Semi-leptonic B−decays (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Oliver WITZEL (University of Edinburgh)

11:45—13:00

The MACSIS Project: Simulating the giants of the Universe (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Henson, Monique A. (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester)

11:45—13:00

Impacts of nuclear physics uncertainty on nucleosynthesis on a Monte-Carlo Method (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Nishimura, Nobuya (Keele University)

11:45—13:00

Recent Results from the Multi-dimensional Stellar Implicit Code (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Goffrey, Tom (University of Exeter)

11:45—13:00

The Spin of the Proton (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Roger HORSLEY (University of Edinburgh)

11:45—13:00

Radiative transfer simulations of the lyman alpha forest: Does the QSOs dominate the UVB at z~6 ? (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Chardin, Jonathan (Institute of Astronomy (IOA) and Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge (KICC), University of Cambridge)

11:45—13:00

Radiation hydrodynamics of mini-haloes and their contribution to reionisation (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Kimm, Taysun (KICC and IoA, University of Cambridge)

11:45—13:00

Exploring Large Scale Flows and Molecular Cloud Formation in Galaxy Simulations (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Ramon Fox, Gerardo (University of St. Andrews)

11:45—13:00

Galactic Feedback and the Circumgalactic Medium (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Richardson, Mark (University of Oxford)

11:45—13:00

Models of Fully-Convective Stars: Differential Rotation, Meridional Circulation and Residual Entropy (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Sainsbury-Martinez, Felix (University of Exeter)

11:45—13:00

COSMOS Intel Parallel Computing Centre: from algorithms to architectures (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Paul SHELLARD (University of Cambridge)

11:45—13:00

Shaken and stirred - the role of turbulence, rotation, magnetism, and radiation in the formation of protostars (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Lewis, Benjamin (University of Exeter)

11:45—13:00

SWIFT - Vectorisation (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Willis, James (ICC, Durham University)

11:45—13:00

Dynamical perturbations on cosmic string solutions in full general relativity (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Helfer, Thomas (Kings College London)

11:45—13:00

Using the AREPO code to study the ISM (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Smith, Rowan (University of Manchester)

11:45—13:00

3D Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Carbon Shell in a Massive Star (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Cristini, Andrea (Keele University)

11:45—13:00

Grid: A next generation data parallel C++ QCD library (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Yamaguchi, Azusa (Software Architect)

11:45—13:00

Multigrid for Chiral Fermions (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Peter BOYLE (Edinburgh)

11:45—13:00

The intergalactic medium at the end of reionization (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Laura KEATING (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

11:45—13:00

D and D_s decay constants from Domain Wall Fermions with physical pion masses (1h15′)

Speaker(s):

• Tsang, Justus Tobias (University of Southampton)

8 Sep 2016
Science parallel session

13:00—13:30

THE HVP contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (0h30′)

Speaker(s):

• Davies, Christine (University of Glasgow)

13:30—13:50

Robustness of Inflation to Inhomogenous Inflation (0h20′)

Speaker(s):

• Lim, Eugene (King's College London)

13:50—14:10

A critical view of the interstellar medium modelling in cosmological simulations (0h20′)

Speaker(s):

• Smith, Matthew (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

14:10—14:30

Magnetic fields in galaxies: the small-scale dynamo in a cosmological context (0h20′)

Speaker(s):

• Martin-Alvarez, Sergio (University of Oxford)

8 Sep 2016
Technical parallel session

13:00—13:30

Emerging technologies (0h30′)

Speaker(s):

• Peter BOYLE (Edinburgh)

13:30—13:50

Grid, a next generation data parallel C++ library (0h20′)

Speaker(s):

• Guido COSSU (Edinburgh University)

13:50—14:10

An Overview of the DiRAC-3 Benchmark Suite (0h20′)

Speaker(s):

• Rollins, Richard (DiRAC / University of Manchester)

14:10—14:30

SWIFT - Scaling on next generation architectures (0h20′)

Speaker(s):

• Willis, James (ICC, Durham University)

8 Sep 2016
Science parallel session

15:00—15:20

From seed to supermassive: growing black holes at high redshift (0h20′)

Speaker(s):

• Beckmann, Ricarda (University of Oxford)

15:20—15:40

Planet formation and disc evolution (0h20′)

Speaker(s):

• Booth, Richard (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK)

15:40—16:00

Modelling the birth of a star (0h20′)

Speaker(s):

• Wurster, James (University of Exeter)

8 Sep 2016
Technical parallel session

15:00—15:30

Co-design of Cray Software Components (0h30′)

Speaker(s):

• Tate, Adrian (Cray)

15:30—16:00

AAAI, Cloud & Data Managment; DiRAC in the National E-Infrastructure (0h30′)

Speaker(s):

• Yates, Jeremy (DiRAC)