Programme
Thursday 10 September
DiRAC day programme:
Time | Session |
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 |
11:00 | Break |
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 |
12:00 | Break |
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 |
13:00 | Lunch |
14:00 | Director’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 |
15:15 | Break |
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 |
16:25 | Hackathon Presentations |
16:50 | Poster Competition results |
16:55 | Closing Talk |
17:00 | End |

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).
