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Summer School - HPC for Engineering Simulation

Submitted by Lee Margetts on

The STFC Hartree Centre (in Warrington, UK - located between Manchester & Liverpool) is running 4 high performance computing summer schools from June to July 2016. They are primarily aimed at PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, but are also open to academics and industry at no extra cost. The tuition fees are subsidised by STFC and each week only costs £150. There is a 1 week school on each of the following topics:

Stochastic Review Paper in Movie Form!

Submitted by Lee Margetts on

A while ago, I shared news about the recent publication of our review paper titled: "Practical Application of the Stochastic Finite Element Method".  The first author David Arregui-Mena, a PhD student at the University of Manchester, created a YouTube movie which summarises the content of the paper.

For those interested, its worth a watch!

Link to movie

Cracks found at reactor at Hunterston B nuclear power station

Submitted by Lee Margetts on

Perhaps some of those on this site have seen the news article on the BBC website yesterday about cracks appearing in the reactor at the Hunterston B nuclear power station. As the article states, cracking in the graphite bricks is predicted and the regulators are happy that the reactor is safe to operate.

Post-Doc position in Computational Mechanics Institute of Structural Mechanics, Bauhaus Uni. Weimar

Submitted by pattabhib on

We are
looking for a Postdoctoral fellow to strengthen our
Research Training Group 1462 Model Qualities that
consists of 12 PhD students. This is a fixed-term position for a
period of one year. A renewal for a further year is possible.



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