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When writing about the Wokingham Half Marathon I mentioned that I had arrived back in the UK, from Santa Fe, shortly before the race, but I failed to mention why I had been away. At the beginning of February I started a new job, in the Evolutionary Biology Group, which is in the School of [...]

I rarely mention my work here, but decided to change that and show a recently produced image. I am currently working on modelling wind flow and dispersion in urban areas. This research is for the Boundary Layer Meteorology group, which is in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading. The image in this [...]

This morning I graduated. I am really glad that the hotter weather of earlier in the week had relented, making the wearing of a suit and robes much more bearable. The combination of a surname starting with a letter early in the alphabet and my degree meant that I was the first person to be [...]

Today I presented at the Reading e-Research Open Meeting. My presentation is on that website, but that set of slides is my notes rather than the presentation slides I displayed. My usual presentation style is to use many slides. Instead, for this fifteen minute presentation I decided to try a different style and I went [...]

Today is my last day of conferencing for a while. For the last six weeks I have either been attending a conference, travelling to a conference, or organising a conference. Tomorrow is a rest day and then it is back to writing the thesis. Yesterday I presented Sparse Hybrid Monte Carlo Methods for Matrix Inversion. [...]

I am back from Bulgaria and trying to catch up with all that has been going on while I have been away. In Bulgaria I attended the 6th International Conference on “Large-Scale Scientific Computations”. The conference was in Sozopol, which is on the Black Sea coast – my room was onto the sea. Then we [...]

For the past week I have been near Beijing, China. The primary purpose of the trip was to attend the International Conference on Computational Science 2007 (ICCS 2007). At the conference I presented, on behalf of Professor Ivan Dimov and Rayna Georgieva, Complexity of Monte Carlo Algorithms for a Class of Integral Equations. This is [...]