2018

TimeSpeakerTitle
09:00Simon Hands (Swansea)Welcome (pdf)
09:10Mark Wilkinson (Dirac)Director’s Report (pdf)
09:30Debora Sijacki (Cambridge)Simulating the most energetic events in the Universe (pdf)
10:00Jacek Dobaczewski (York)Computing Atomic Nuclei (pdf)
10:20Coffee
11:00David Wilson (TC Dublin)Hadron resonances from lattice QCD (pdf)
11:30Mark Hannam (Cardiff)How DiRAC helps us measure black holes (pdf)
12:00Vera Guelpers (Southampton)Lattice QCD calculations for high-precision tests of the Standard Model of particle physics (pdf)
12:30David Britton (Glasgow) /
Peter Clarke (Edinburgh)
GridPP (pdf) / IRIS (pdf)
13:00Lunch, (Room 218, Wallace Bulding)
14:30Parallel Sessions
17:00Poster Presentations, (Room 218, Wallace Bulding)
18:00Close

2019

TimeSessionLocation
9:00 – 9:30Welcome and Director’s reportOak Room
9:30 – 10:30Morning sessionOak Room
10:30 – 11:00Coffee
11:00 – 13:00Morning session (cont.)Oak Room
13:00 – 14:30Lunch
14:30 – 17:15Parallel Session 1Left hand side
of Oak Room
Parallel Session 2Right hand side
of Oak Room
17:15 – 18:00Poster session, prizes and receptionChestnut and
Birch Rooms
18:00Close

2020

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
10:55Questions
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

DiRAC-3 Launch

Welcome: Jeremy Yates, Chair of DiRAC Technical Directorate

Overview of the new HPC Systems and hardware across all services: Mark Wilkinson, Director

Overview of User Guide: Anushka Sharma, Senior Technical Programme Coordinator

Overview of DiRAC Training: Richard Regan, Training Manager

TauREx on DiRAC-3: Dr. Ahmed Faris Al-Refaie, University College London

A Lattice Field Theory Ecosystem for DiRAC-3: L Del Debbio, University of Edinburgh

Large cosmological runs on the new DiRAC MI “Cosma-8” facility: Matthieu Schaller, Lorentz Institute, on behalf of the Virgo Consortium

The Technical Working Group experience of deploying DiRAC3: Alastair Basden, Technical Manager

The Research Software Engineer Experience: James Richings, Edinburgh and Athena Elafrou, Cambridge

Closing remarks: Simon Hands, DiRAC Community Development Director


Welcome: Jeremy Yates, Chair of DiRAC Technical Directorate

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