Yesterday I was in London for the evening, at the Times Higher Education Awards. These took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel, which is a rather fancy hotel on Park Lane and hosts many awards ceremonies – the Mercury Music Prize was held there a few months ago. As one would expect from such a [...]
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 [...]
The latest Top 500 list came out today. Our new machine is number 36. It is the largest UK academic machine and one of four systems in Berkshire in the top fifty. I’ll post some pictures of it when I manage to get them off my colleagues.
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 [...]
This week is another where I am teaching. This time I am just teaching the practicals, so I am only busy in the afternoons and not all day as last time. Though, at the moment, I have not done that much. There are only two students for this module. On Monday the students were busy [...]
My research group runs two MSc courses in the area of network and collaborative computing. One of these includes the possibility to take several mathematics modules. These courses are taught with one week intensive modules on a subject. This meant that I spent the past week teaching the first Linear Algebra module. This module covers [...]
Last week I was in Florida for SC06. The locals were saying it had recently got colder, which translated to only 25ish daytime temperatures. Of course the warm weather did not agree with me and I went down with flu and spent most of the week stuck in the hotel. My colleagues assure me that [...]
