Dear all,


I am copying below an email from Martin Schreiber who is organising our next SIG meeting in Exeter on December 11th-12th. I thought it might be of interest to some on this list...



The special interest group (SIG) "Next generation time-stepping 
strategies for computer simulations of multi-scale fluid flows", funded 
by the EPSRC UKFluids network, will have its 2nd meeting on December 
11th and 12th 2017 in Exeter to discuss recent and future research in 
the field of numerical time stepping algorithms which also involves 
software engineering.

Plenary speakers are:

*Michael Klemm* (Intel, CEO of the OpenMP organization)
   Title: "OpenMP at Twenty - Past, Present, and Future"

*Mario Acosta* (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
   Title: "BSC performance activities on NEMO: Exploring the use of mixed
           precision in the NEMO model"

*Chris Maynard* (MetOffice)
   Title: "Solving the solver problem: Can software enable productivity,
           portability and productivity?"

*Andrew McRae* (Oxford)
   Title: "Reduced precision in weather and climate simulations"

The main topic for this meeting will be
   *Mixed precision and how hardware impacts software abstractions*

More information on our SIG is available at

                 https://ngtssite.wordpress.com/




The meeting will also involve a joint dinner and a discussion about 
promising future research.

SIG members are from various UK universities and industry partners such 
as the UK Met Office, the European Centre for Medium Range Weather 
Forecasts (ECMWF) and Cray UK.

Please register by November 10th at
https://goo.gl/forms/Dg8dreG59rJcn7u63

PhD and PostDoc travel grants: Interested PhD students or postdocs can 
apply for travel grants to attend the meeting. The grants will fund 
train tickets and hotel costs. To apply, please send in an application 
explaining (1) why you are interested in attending the meeting and (2) 
how the topic aligns with your research. Please send your application to 
d.ruprecht@leeds.ac.uk, j.shipton@imperial.ac.uk and 
m.schreiber@exeter.ac.uk before November 10th 2017.

All the best,

Martin