What is it?
The IT in Research Showcase aims to bring together members of the University of York research community in an informal setting, with a view to facilitating experience and knowledge sharing.
To this end, the event will consist of the following:
- a series of short 'showcase' presentations, delivered by researchers from a diverse range of departments. These will be accounts of how IT has been applied to research and how the application of IT affected the research (for the worse or for the better!)
- a conference-style information sharing session. During this session, stands manned by researchers and support staff will be set up and available for you to visit, affording you the opportunity to learn about and discuss IT.
The event is intended to cover as wide a range of IT applications as possible, from work done on a single desktop PC to work done on national high performance computing facility, and we encourage researchers at any level of technical expertise and from any department to attend.
There will be coffee/tea and biscuits available for both the presentations and the information sharing session, as well as a light lunch available between the presentations and information sharing session. If nothing else, you can come along to enjoy a free lunch and discuss interesting technologies with your peers!
Why are we doing this?
IT's importance within research continues to grow, and the rate of general technological developments matches and outstrips this growth. We believe that fostering an open and accessible knowledge exchange community could be beneficial to many, both in terms of exposing researchers to ideas and technologies that they otherwise wouldn't be exposed to and in terms of providing an informal forum within which all levels of IT discussion can flourish.
Presentation Schedule
| Time | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 11:05 | Phil Hasnip (Physics) | High Performance Computing |
| 11:15 | Mat Evans (Chemistry) | Modelling the Atmosphere |
| 11:25 | Philip Quinlan (Psychology) | Using the Web to Run Behavioural Experiments |
| 11:35 | Katie Green (Archaeology) | Data Mining and Image Recognition in Archaeology |
| 11:45 | Patrick Gibbs (History) | 3D Visualisation for Research and Public Presentation |
Information Stands
| Name | Information Available |
|---|---|
| Geoff Short, Emma Barnes, Richard Fuller (IT Services) | Desktop and printing services, research and high performance computing support, information security |
| Research Support Team | Open Access, research data management, copyright legislation, and much more |
| Ed Higgins, Phil Hasnip (Physics) | High Performance Computing |
| Katie Smith, Chengliang Dai (Chemistry) | Hardware prototyping with Arduino |
| Killian Murphy & Dan Bishop (IT Services) | Google Apps Script |
| Philip Quinlan (Psychology) | Qualtrics |
| Patrick Gibbs (History) | 3D Visualisation and Virtual Reality |
| Teaching & Learning Team | Collaborative tools, Google Apps, reference management |
| Richard Greaves & Norliza Abdullah (Computer Science) | Using YARCC to support research |
Who is involved?
The IT in Research Showcase is organised by IT Services, in collaboration with the Research Computing Working Group. If you wish to find out more about what IT Services can do for you, please visit the IT Services web pages. If you're interested in the activities of the Research Computing Working Group (or would like to join!), you can find out more at the Research Computing Working Group wiki space.
The participants are volunteers from the University of York research community and support staff.
When and where?
The IT in Research Showcase is taking place at 11:00 on Monday the 26th of June 2017, in the BS/104 Meeting Room (the 'Tree House') - the location of this building is available on the University's campus map. There is a hearing loop installed in BS/104, and access via elevator is available. Please be aware that access to the Tree House is via an open-plan office/study space, in which there may be people working. If you'd like to register for the event, you can do so using the event's Google Form.