Programme — PDF

Tuesday, 9th January

9:30 Registration
10:25 – 12:30 Chair: Jonathan Hirst
Jonathan Hirst 5 min Welcome from Chair
Colin Bannister 30 min hpc@nottingham - the old and the new
Mark Greenaway 30 min Applications of HPC in THz electronics
Mark Oakley 30 min Simulations of Supercritical Fluids
Jaume Bacardit 30 min Data Mining Large-scale Bioinformatics Datasets
12:30 Lunch & Posters
14:00 – 15:30 Chair: Frazer Pearce
Kim Evans 30 min Comparing protein surfaces for similar binding sites
Will Hartley 30 min Distant galaxies: ever increasing numbers
Stephen Hamby 30 min High throughput computing and protein structure
15:30 Tea
16:00 – 17:30 Chair: Carol Eastwick
Keith Benedict 30 min Bose condensates - Mean Field Dynamics and Beyond
James Smaldon 30 min Membrane Simulations with a Parallel Implementation of Dissipative Particle Dynamics
Michael Lees 30 min Meshless numerical methods and GPU computing

Wednesday, 9th January

10:30 – 12:00 Chair: Phil Williams
Liz Bailes 30 min Origins of Human AIDS Viruses
Mike Stout 30 min Predicting Aspects of Protein Structure Using Evolutionary Computation
Michael Mazanetz 30 min Exploiting Protein Flexibility in Molecular Recognition
12:00 - 13:00 Keynote Address
Bissan Al-Lazikani
(Discovery Informatics, BioFocus DPI)
60 min Knowledge-based approaches to solving drug discovery problems
13:00 Lunch & Posters
14:30 – 16:30 Chair: Chris Booth
Lorena Gazzola 30 min Simulating the Universe: gas physics in the millennium run
David Robinson 30 min Fluorescence calculations using high level ab initio techniques
Chris Roberts (HP)
& Tim Cooke (Streamline)
60 min Technology update
16:30 Drinks & Close