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Fwd: Distinguished Seminar Series in Computer Science -- Vint Cerf -- 27-11-2013
by Kelly, Paul H J 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

You have to attend this (and arrive in good time - it will likely be mobbed). I'll be in Paris, unfortunately. Paul Begin forwarded message: From: "Hall, Margaret J" <margaret.hall(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:margaret.hall@imperial.ac.uk>> Date: 1 November 2013 13:52:51 GMT To: doc-academic-list <doc-academic-list(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:doc-academic-list@imperial.ac.uk>>, doc-ra-list <doc-ra-list(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:doc-ra-list@imperial.ac.uk>>, doc-all-students <doc-all-students(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:doc-all-students@imperial.ac.uk>> Subject: Distinguished Seminar Series in Computer Science -- Vint Cerf -- 27-11-2013 SENT BY MARGARET HALL ON BEHALF OF MAJA PANTIC --------------- Dear all, Just a reminder about the upcoming lecture of the Distinguished Seminar Series in Computer Science to be given by Vint Cerf. For more information about Vint Cerf's Distinguished Lecture in Computer Science, please scroll below. For more information about Vint Cerf and his work, please visit: http://research.google.com/pubs/author32412.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf The talk will take place on Wednesday 27-11-2013 at 15.00, 308/311. The main organiser of the talk is Alex Wolf. If you would like to meet Vint Cerf in person, please contact Alex for arrangements. I hope that all will be able to attend. Best wishes, Maja *************** Date of the talk: November 27, 2013, at 15.00, in 308/311 (Huxley Building, 180 Queens' Gate), followed by a drinks reception in DoC Common Room Speaker: Vint Cerf Title: Internet Challenges for the 21st Century Abstract: The Internet continues to expand, to support new applications and to excite public and government concerns over abuse of this infrastructure. This talk will explore technical directions for further Internet evolution and explore the implications of the Internet of things, the Information explosion and the extension of the Internet to operate across the solar system. Bio: Vinton (Vint) G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company. Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code used to transmit data across the Internet has put them "at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and entertainment." >From 1994-2005, Vint served as Senior Vice President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), and from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of MCI. During his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies. Since 2000, Vint has served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and he has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. He served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995 and was on the ISOC board until 2000. Vint is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering. Vint currently serves as President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Vint has received numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computer Machinery, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, among many others. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and more than a dozen honorary degrees. ***************

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meeting next week
by Lawrence Mitchell 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Hi all, next week, friday is again bad. Since everyone appeared to be available on Thursday at midday, assuming I hear no cries of anguish to the contrary by lunchtime, I shall go ahead and book for next week (WPL is free). Lawrence

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Fwd: gmd-2013-83 - Manuscript accepted for Final Publication
by David Ham 31 Oct '13

31 Oct '13

Woohoo! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: editorial(a)copernicus.org <editorial(a)copernicus.org> Date: 31 October 2013 11:00 Subject: gmd-2013-83 - Manuscript accepted for Final Publication To: "Ham, David A" <david.ham(a)imperial.ac.uk> Dear David Ham, We are pleased to inform you that your following manuscript was accepted for final publication in GMD: Title: Automating the solution of PDEs on the sphere and other manifolds in FEniCS 1.2 Author(s): M.E. Rognes et al. MS No.: gmd-2013-83 MS Type: Development/Technical Paper Iteration: Minor Revision Special Issue: Isaac Newton Institute programme on multiscale numerics for the atmosphere and ocean Presently, your manuscript is being transferred to the Copernicus Publications Production Office for typesetting and publication. To proceed, please upload all files that are required for production no later than 10 Nov 2013 at http://editor.copernicus.org/GMD/file_manager/gmd-2013-83. For further information on files and formats we kindly refer you to the submission guidelines: http://www.geoscientific-model-development.net/submission/manuscript_submis… To log in, please use your Copernicus Office User ID 79961. You are invited to monitor the processing of your manuscript via your MS Overview: http://editor.copernicus.org/GMD/my_manuscript_overview In case any questions arise, please contact me! Kind regards, Anna Feist-Polner Copernicus Publications Editorial Support editorial(a)copernicus.org on behalf of the GMD Editorial Board -- Dr David Ham Departments of Mathematics and Computing Imperial College London http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/david.ham

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Ana Varbanescu visiting next week
by Kelly, Paul H J 31 Oct '13

31 Oct '13

I mentioned that Ana is visiting from Delft next week. Here is an indication of the kinds of things she does: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=UypyD2wAAAAJ&hl=en Her home page is here: http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/varbanescu/ Paul

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Firedrake group meeting 1200 TODAY
by David Ham 31 Oct '13

31 Oct '13

Dear all, This is a reminder that the rescheduled group meeting will be held today in WPL at 1200. Regards, David -- Dr David Ham Departments of Mathematics and Computing Imperial College London http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/david.ham

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cx1/dolfin
by Gorman, Gerard J 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

Hi Matt Harvey has kindly installed dolfin on cx1. To use it simply load the module dolfin/1.2.0 Cheers Gerard

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Re: [firedrake] Informal finite element course.
by Fabio Luporini 29 Oct '13

29 Oct '13

Very good idea, I'm definitely interested. -- Fabio 2013/10/29 Ham, David A <david.ham(a)imperial.ac.uk> > Hi All, > > Having been extensively lobbied over many months, and also being aware > that I am explaining basic finite element repeatedly to different people, I > have decided to cave in to the pressure and actually do something a bit > more organised. > > Following very loosely the model of Colin's FEEC course, I think the > plan would be to do a session of 90 minutes or so perhaps once a week for a > few weeks until we have got far enough. The target market is anyone who > doesn't yet know how to derive the finite element method for systems like > Poisson, the wave equation, advection diffusion etc. We would cover the > basic theory of finite element, and matters such as quadrature, boundary > conditions, Galerkin orthogonality and so on. > > At this stage I am just gauging interest, so please reply (to list) > indicating if you would be interested. This will enable me to work out > whether its worth doing and where I should do it. > > Regards, > > David > > > > -- > Dr David Ham > Departments of Mathematics and Computing > Imperial College London > > http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/david.ham >

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DOLFIN: Expressive and scalable finite element simulation beyond 1000 cores
by Florian Rathgeber 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

Some of you will have seen this, if you haven't it's well worth a read to see what's cooking in DOLFIN with regards to parallel scaling: http://www.hector.ac.uk/cse/distributedcse/reports/UniDOLFIN/UniDOLFIN.pdf It addresses the lack of (i) scalable parallel I/O, (ii) parallel mesh refinement and (iii) hybrid MPI + OpenMP in DOLFIN. Florian

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Fwd: LMS Computer Science Day - on Mathematics Research Beyond the Blackboard. 29 Oct. All welcome!
by Kelly, Paul H J 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

This looks like quite an exciting day. Paul Begin forwarded message: From: Tom Melham <Tom.Melham(a)CS.OX.AC.UK<mailto:Tom.Melham@CS.OX.AC.UK>> Date: 21 October 2013 22:11:11 GMT+01:00 To: <cphc-members(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:cphc-members@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>> Subject: LMS Computer Science Day - on Mathematics Research Beyond the Blackboard. 29 Oct. All welcome! Reply-To: Tom Melham <Tom.Melham(a)CS.OX.AC.UK<mailto:Tom.Melham@CS.OX.AC.UK>> Dear Colleagues, Please allow me to remind you of the "Computer Science Day" run by the London Mathematical Society, which this year is co-organised by Professor Ursula Martin and is on the topic of Mathematics Research Beyond the Blackboard. We still have a few places left, and warmly welcome your participation. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers: John Harrison (Intel), Nick Trefethen (Oxford), Ursula Martin (QM), and Steve Linton (St Andrews). The theme of the colloquium is the way in which computer science has made a variety of contributions to how contemporary mathematics research is done. This forward-looking colloquium will take place at the London Mathematical Society on Tuesday 29 October, and all interested mathematicians and computer scientists are welcome to come. Some funds are available to help with travel costs of PhD students. I attach a poster about the colloquium, and I would be very grateful if you would circulate this to colleagues in Computer Science and Mathematics. Please see the poster for how to register. All best regards, Tom Melham Chair, Computer Science Committee, LMS

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Re: [firedrake] UK visit?
by David Ham 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

AFAIK we haven't yet done this. It's a bit off the short term critical path which probably explains why nobody has looked at it, although we really should since we want to claim performance portability in upcoming publications, and this is a potential bottleneck. David On 22 October 2013 11:59, Gorman, Gerard J <g.gorman(a)imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > On 22/10/13 05:20, Jed Brown wrote: > > Have you set up a test case showing matrix insertion to be > > performance-critical, so that we can show Matt? > > Lawrence, Florian et al - where are we with this? Anything interesting > for the PETSc folks yet? > > Cheers > Gerard > > _______________________________________________ > firedrake mailing list > firedrake(a)imperial.ac.uk > https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/firedrake > -- Dr David Ham Departments of Mathematics and Computing Imperial College London http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/david.ham

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