By Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director, Software Sustainability Institute I’ve attended a lot of events during my time in academia, but I can think of only one where women outnumbered men (one of the BSA’s Science Communication Conferences). This is not a revelation, of course. It’s well known that women are poorly represented at events: as…
DetailsWe are excited to announce that the conference’s Tuesday keynote session will highlight contributions from female researchers and scientists in advancing the field of computational science. This ongoing commitment to recognize the importance of diversity in the HPC community will provide a platform for women to address computational challenges in HPC, science and engineering. This…
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[section background_repeat=”repeat” background_position=”center top” background_attachment=”static” background_scroll=”none”] [/section] [section background_repeat=”repeat” background_position=”center top” background_attachment=”static” background_scroll=”none”] Raquel Alegre I work as a Software Developer at University College London in the Research Software Development Group where we collaborate with researchers across campus, covering fields from Ancient History to Astrophysics, to facilitate their research by improving the quality of their…
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Guest post by Alex Simperler, NSCCS, Imperial College London. Intrigued by talking to Toni Collis of “Women in High Performance Computing” who are working towards equal representation in HPC, I started to question how “equal” we are in Scientific Application Software usage. The NSCCS – short for EPSRC National Service for Computational Chemistry Software –…
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Our Co-Founder, Toni Collis, has been named an ‘HPCWire Person to Watch in 2016’. This interview is published here with the permission of HPCWire. Toni Collis is the Director and founder of the Women in HPC (WHPC) network in the UK, as well as an Applications Consultant in HPC Research and Industry at Edinburgh Parallel Computing…
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