DiRAC Day 2020 – Virtual

DiRAC Day 2020 – Virtual

Programme

Thursday 10 September

DiRAC day programme:

TimeSession
10:00
Practicalities, Welcome and Introduction
Adrian Jenkins/Alastair Basden
10:10
Introduction to The DIRAC3 Technical Case
Jeremy Yates
10:25
The new Data Intensive Service
Paul Calleja
10:35
The new Extreme Scaling Service
Antonin Portelli
10:45
The new Memory Intensive Service
Alastair Basden
10:55 Questions
11:00Break
11:15
The new Research Software Engineer Service
Andy Turner
11:25
The new Data Curation Service
Alastair Basden
11:35
The ExCALIBUR Hardware and Enabling Software Programme
Martin Hamilton
11:45
Multi-factor authentication on DiRAC resources
Jon Wakelin
12:00Break
12:15
Meet the technical team
All teams
12:25
Student Cluster Competition
Mark Wilkinson
12:35
Innovation Placement outputs
Mark Wilkinson
12:45
Suggestions for follow up meetings and projects
Alastair Basden
13:00Lunch
14:00Director’s talk
14:20
A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact.
Thomas Davison
14:45
B Meson Oscillations
Christine Davies
15:00
The external photo-evaporation of planet-forming discs
Tom Haworth
15:15Break
15:30
DiRAC enables prediction for matter-anti-matter asymmetry in the Standard Model.
Christopher Sachrajda
15:55

Identifying and Quantifying the Role of Magnetic Reconnection in Space Plasma Turbulence.
Jeffersson Andres Agudelo Rueda
16:10
Extreme QCD: Quantifying the QCD Phase Diagram
Aleksandr Nikolaev
16:25Hackathon Presentations
16:50Poster Competition results
16:55Closing Talk
17:00End

All posters and videos can also be downloaded from this page.



Jake Bennett: Resolving shocks and the multiphase CGM (poster).



Josh Borrow: SWIFTsimIO (poster).



Victoria Clark: High temperature molecular line lists for modelling exoplanet atmospheres (poster).



Laurence Cooper: Lattice QCD: a heavy to light quark transition (poster).



Ryan Hill: Semileptonic form factors for B → πlν decays (poster).



Jack Holligan: Sp(2N) glueballs (poster).



Sophie Koudmani: The Impact of AGN Feedback on Simulated Dwarf Galaxies (poster).



Fionn O’Hogain: A Physical Point Lattice of the K → πl+l- Decay (poster).



Matthew Orkney: Dark Matter cusps and cores at the EDGE of galaxy formation (poster).



Henrique Rocha: Holographic Cosmological Models on the Lattice (poster).



Sahl Rowther: Are gravitationally unstable protoplanetary disks rare? (poster).



Rosie Talbot: High resolution simulations of Blandford-Znajek jets (poster).



James Wurster: Numerical stellar clusters: A data rich environment (poster).



Andrew Yong: QED Corrections to Hadronic Amplitudes (poster).