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 [...]
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 [...]
