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Our twelfth talk at our 2025 Conference was entitled 'Development of CHAPSim2 for Modelling Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence', led by Alex Old (University of Sheffield/CCP-NTH). https://lnkd.in/evYiXm_i You can also find out more about CHAPSim2 here - https://lnkd.in/e_HSxiTK which was featured in our Software Spotlight last month. #software #turbulence

It's Software Spotlight Day! CoSeC is involved with the creation, development and maintenance of a large number of community software codes. To highlight this work, every third Wednesday of the month, we publish a software spotlight to keep everyone updated as to the work that we are doing and highlight the importance of these codes to our communities and collaborators. This month it's CCP-EM's turn with their software, Doppio. https://lnkd.in/etRvGwkh The CCP-EM Software Suite 2.0 (aka Doppio) integrates software tools from 15+ collaborating laboratories to enable researchers to solve high resolution 3D structures of proteins by combining many thousands of 2D projections from electron microscopy images. #software #innovation #proteins #3Dstructures #CryoEM

CCP-QC will be holding an Algorithms Day at Warwick Conferences on 5 June 2026, following the CoSeC Community Forum on 3–4 June 2026.   If you're attending day two of the Community Forum and would also like to attend the Algorithms Day, please ensure you register by 21 May using the link below: https://lnkd.in/eN9amN39 Please do share this information with others that may find this event useful!   Further details about the event are available here - https://ccp-qc.ac.uk/qalg/

Our annual CoSeC conference is an opportunity to showcase research across the CoSeC communities, with a day comprised of invited and submitted talks, networking and an introduction to our CoSeC Fellows for the year ahead. The twelfth talk of the day was given by one of our new Fellows for 2025, Miquel Miravet Tenés (University of Southampton/CCP-UKNR), entitled 'Modelling sub-grid turbulence in simulations of neutron stars'. https://lnkd.in/eAWWWbkC

Nominations are now open for this year's CoSeC Impact Award! The CoSeC Impact Award is now open for nominations and celebrates outstanding research by master’s and PhD students and early career researchers supported by CoSeC and its communities. The award highlights work that delivers significant scientific, societal, or economic impact using computational methods and CoSeC software.    The winner will receive the CoSeC Impact Fellowship (up to £3,000), conference travel bursaries, an engraved glass award, opportunities to work with CoSeC scientists, present at STFC, and have their work featured as a formal impact case study on the CoSeC website. Apply here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/enCxyv73 Nominations close on 17 July 2026 and the winner will be announced in early September. You can read about our previous winners on our dedicated Impact Award page on the CoSeC website -   To be eligible, nominees must be master's or PhD students, or early career researchers (in academic or industry) with no more than 5 years of postdoctoral experience. Nominees will have benefited from CoSeC or CoSeC- related support, such as attending a CoSeC workshop, using a CoSeC code or received one on one staff training.  

The latest addition to our blog series is from CoSeC 2024 Fellow Christopher Woodgate about his experiences during his Fellowship and the opportunities it gave him. Chris is an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow in the School of Physics at the University of Bristol. He is both a theoretical physicist and computational materials scientist who works on the development, implementation, and application of novel modelling methodologies to technologically relevant materials. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e6-Ms2q8 "Overall, the CoSeC Fellowship has raised my profile both within the University of Bristol and externally, while simultaneously giving me a stronger platform from which to advocate for sustainable software and community-centred computational research. I would strongly encourage others in similar positions to consider applying in future years. It is an excellent opportunity both to develop your own research profile and to contribute to something much bigger than one individual project." Chris is seen here with CoSeC 2025 Fellow Chengcheng Xiao at the APS Global Physics Summit 2025. Openings for our 2026 Fellowship will open this summer. #fellowship #fellow #sustainablesoftware #software #community

Final reminder of registration deadline this Thursday! CCPBioSim Biomolecular Simulation are pleased to announce that there is a one day workshop on using ChemShell for QM/MM simulations of biomolecular systems. This workshop will take place at Daresbury Laboratory on 4 June 2026 and the registration deadline is 14 May 2026. Details and registration can be found at https://lnkd.in/erBwT6uT. This workshop will introduce the background principles of the program and hands-on tutorials for biomolecular simulations, starting from setting up simple systems to running production calculations. It will also include discussion sessions on usability challenges and future priorities. The workshop is targeted at researchers who are interested in applying hybrid QM/MM calculations to understand their scientific problem, and existing users of ChemShell who would like to learn more about its biomolecular simulation features.   #biomolecular #simulation #workshop

We continue to showcase our videos from our 2025 conference. Our conference is held every autumn prior to Computing Insight UK. The eleventh talk of the day was given by Han Zhang (Durham University/CCP-UKNR), entitled 'ExaGRyPE – Numerical Relativity Solvers Based upon the Hyperbolic PDEs Solver Engine ExaHyPE'. https://lnkd.in/epvVzjbd

STFC, STFC Scientific Computing, DiRAC, IRIS and the Ada Lovelace Centre are collaborating to deliver a Training Workshop: GPU Performance Portability Training to be held in Nottingham 15-17 September and this could be of interest to our communities. Are you a computational researcher within the STFC DiRAC, IRIS or ALC communities thinking about adapting your codes for GPUs? You can attend either: • A 1-day essentials session, or • A fully funded 3-day residential course with guided hands-on exercises and RSE support Whether you’re an early career researcher or lead coding strategy and implementation within your group, you’ll learn how GPU acceleration can enhance your research and gain valuable insights, practical skills and a network of peers and experts to support your next steps. For further information and to express interest in attending - https://lnkd.in/djf_xdYK Deadline: 8th June

CCP-WSI will be holding a three-day residential event dedicated to #AI methods for accelerating multi-physics simulation codes. The hackathon will bring together selected members of the WSI community to collaborate on coupling computational continuum-mechanics codes, with particular emphasis on AI-driven acceleration of fluid-dynamics solvers. Participants will receive advanced, hands-on training in the design, implementation, and training of neural networks, delivered by domain experts in scientific machine learning and computational physics. The programme is structured to support the development of sustainable, open-source research software and reproducible workflows, while fostering technical exchange and long-term collaborations across the wider CCP-WSI community. To apply for your place at the 3rd CCP-WSI Hackathon please complete the registration form  (before midnight on Friday 29th May 2026) here: https://lnkd.in/eXuVZd6X The event will be hosted by the University of Exeter at the Streatham Campus. CCP-WSI are proud to fund this event, participants need only fund their travel. However, places on the Hackathon are limited and only successful applicants will be invited to join the Hackathon activities in Exeter. The hackathon is aimed at early career researchers and late-stage PhD students interested in AI acceleration for Offshore Wind Turbine relevant applications. Successful applicants will be working on new features in wave-structure-interaction (WSI) simulations and be willing to share ideas for code improvements and development of new functionality. #AI #fluiddynamics #windturbine #opensource #software #training