Hi all, I hope you don't mind me sharing two opportunities for PhD projects and studentships with you.
We are looking for Computer Scientists (with an interest in science and computation), or Physicists, Engineers, ... (with an interest in Python and computation), who like working with Python and want to take part in a 4-year PhD programme to develop software tools for computational science. Project 1 ========= The first project is to develop (in Python) a tool that accepts partial differential equations (for example specified in sympy), and a mesh and some more parameters, and generates -- through different backends -- code that can be compiled to execute on a CPU, or parallel system (OpenMP/MPI) or a GPU. More details are available at http://ngcm.soton.ac.uk/projects/Automatic-code-generation-for-computational-science.html Project 2 ========= The second project is to develop a particular simulation code (for the magnetism at the nanoscale) that executes on large parallel machines (such as Iridis [http://cmg.soton.ac.uk/iridis] and ARCHER [http://www.archer.ac.uk/about-archer/]) using MPI, based on a finite difference discretisation of space. As scientists love Python, we would like this code to have a Python interface for the user, and would like to write as much of this as possible at the Python level. More details at http://ngcm.soton.ac.uk/projects/High-Performance-Computing-Micromagnetics.html Resulting tools codes will be made available on github, developed with tests in an agile way, etc. The training programme and research environment =============================================== Both projects are to be carried out as part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Next Generation Computational Modelling (http://ngcm.soton.ac.uk), which provides unique training in Computational Science, and has chosen Python as one of the core tools in its training and research activities. I believe some on this list attended the Summer Academy in June 2015 (http://ngcm.soton.ac.uk/summer-academy/index.html) that was organised by the same centre (we will have another summer academy in June 2016). See also our list of facilities, studentship and support details on offer at http://ngcm.soton.ac.uk/facilities.html Project start date and application deadline =========================================== Both projects are to start in the middle of September 2016, but applications are invited now; earlier applications will increase chances of success. If you are interested or have informal queries, please get in touch (fang...@soton.ac.uk). Best wishes, Hans PS The Training Centre has an open day in Southampton on 25 November http://ngcm.soton.ac.uk/openday.html Hans Fangohr Head of Computational Modelling Group University of Southampton phone: 023 80598345 email: fang...@soton.ac.uk www: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~fangohr blog: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~fangohr/blog Twitter: @ProfCompMod http://ngcm.soton.ac.uk http://cmg.soton.ac.uk _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
