What is it?
The Research Computing Showcase aims to bring together members of the University of York research community in an informal setting, allowing them to showcase computational research, share knowledge and experience, and enjoy the opportunity to network with colleagues from across the university faculties. There will be a particular focus on computational research that has made use of (or could make use of!) the university's main research computing facility, Viking.
The event will consist of the following:
- A series of short 'showcase' presentations, delivered by researchers from each of the university faculties. These will be accounts of research projects with computation at their core.
- A poster session with refreshments
The event is intended to cover a wide range of computational research, and we encourage anybody interested in delivering a talk or presenting a poster to get in touch via email to killian.murphy@york.ac.uk.
Why are we doing this?
Computation drives a lot of research. We think it is important to try and bring together researchers from different fields to showcase what they are doing, as there may be tools and techniques being used in some field that could greatly benefit work being carried out in another. Additionally, the university has invested heavily in research computing, and we are keen to understand how the facilities are being used, as well as how they might be better used in the future.
When and where?
The Research Computing Showcase is taking place at 14:00 on Friday 14 February 2020, 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.
Event Schedule
| Time | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Matt Probert (Physics) | Welcome & Introduction |
| 14:05 | Patrick Gibbs (Christianity & Culture) | "Research for Digital Heritage and Visitor Interpretation" |
| 14:20 | Eleanor Green (Archaeology) | "HPC for Archaeology: A genomic investigation of mysterious skulls from the River Thames" |
| 14:35 | James Chong (Biology) | "The Challenges of Microbial Metagenomics" |
| REFRESHMENT BREAK | ||
| 14:55 | Huw Jenkins (YSBL, Chemistry) | "YSBL’s cryoEM journey: the beginning of a new era of structural biology at York" |
| 15:10 | Noemi Kreif (Centre for Health Economics) | "Can machine learning help us understand the impacts of health policies?" |
| 15:25 | Johan Gustafsson (Philosophy) | "Computational Philosophy" |
| REFRESHMENTS & POSTERS | ||
Posters
| Researcher | Title |
|---|---|
| Ryan Pound (WACL, Chemistry) | "Impacts of Oceanic Deposition of Ozone in the Troposphere" |
| De-Sheng Ker (YSBL, Chemistry) | "Structural study of the Nipah virus Nucleocapsid protein" |
| Annabel Cansdale (Chong Lab, Biology) | “CLUSTard: A reproducible pipeline for metagenomic analysis” |
| Leandro Soares Indrusiak (Computer Science) | "Cloud-based optimisation and reconfiguration of smart factories" |
| Aurore Monnereau (BioArCh, Archaeology) | "Ancient genomic analysis of multi-faith populations from medieval Sicily" |
| Paul Bond (YSBL, Chemistry) | "Predicting protein model correctness using machine learning" |
| Genadi Naydenov (Physics) | TBC |
| James Robson (Chong Lab, Biology) | TBC |
| TBC | TBC |
Who is involved?
The Research Computing Showcase is organised by Information Services, in collaboration with the High Performance Computing Management Committee. If you wish to find out more about Research Computing at York, please visit the Research and High Performance Computing wiki space.
The participants are volunteers from the University of York research community.
How to book a place
The event is free but we ask that you book a place beforehand, using Eventbrite.
