Durham HPC Days 2026

Session Recordings

Missed a session? Catch up with recordings and download presentation slides from Durham HPC Days 2026.

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Session recordings

Talk
Computational Engineering
Speakers:
Ashutosh Shankarrao Londhe, Vahid Jafari, Henrique Bergallo Rocha, Robert Bird
Talk
HPC Centres
Speakers:
Cristin Merritt, Richard Knepper, Syed Ibtisam Tauhidi
Talk
HPC in Astrophysics and Astronomy
Speakers:
Sarah Johnston, Abouzied Nasar, Will Roper, Zhen Xiang, Romeel Dave, Britton Smith, Kyle Oman, Dmitry Nikolaenko
Keynote
CCMI - PhD Training on the Interface of Data, Software, and Computation
Speakers:
Timo Betcke
Keynote
Interactive On-Demand HPC at Lincoln Laboratory and Beyond
Speakers:
Albert Reuther
Keynote
What Works? Academic-Industry Collaborations Across Borders - US vs EU models
Speakers:
Melyssa Fratkin
Workshop
Knowledge Exchange in the DRI Community
Lead:
Marion Weinzierl
Talk
Reinforcement Learning for Scientific and Computational Decision Making
Speakers:
Bidipta Sarkar, Junyan Hu, Andrew Mole, Shruti Mishra, Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi
Talk
Research software development funding calls
Speakers:
Chris Johnson, Neil Chue Hong, Lorna Smith
Workshop
RIE's and RSE working together towards user friendly, sustainable HPC
Lead:
Helen Cooper
Workshop
We know what to do, so why aren’t we doing it? Closing the EDI Implementation Gap with lessons from EuroHPC, UKRI and Beyond
Lead:
Eleanor Broadway, Marion Weinzierl, Tom Meltzer, Jack Franklin

Slides

These sessions do not have a recording available, but the presentation slides are available to view.

Workshop
Building Community
Speakers:
Luke Davis, Luigi del Debbio, Sarah Harris, Jonathan Hays, Eugene Lim, Crispin Miller, Karina Rodriguez Echavarria, Katherine Rooke, Matthieu Schaller, Andrea Townsend-Nicholson, Mark Wilkinson, Scott Woodley
Talk
Past, present and future of HPC Services in the UK, and the people who make it work
Speakers:
Deepak Aggarwal, Simon Burbidge, Simon Clifford, Jannetta Steyn, Marion Weinzierl