The first annual retreat for COMPUTE took place 20-21 August, 2012, at Hotel Åhus Strand, in Åhus. There were 55 registered participants for the meeting. The theme for the retreat was "Science Communication".

Sara Santesson from Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, was a specially invited guest, who, besides giving an introduction how to give a popular science presentations, gave input on the 10 PhD student presentations. Oxana Smirnova gave a keynote presentation on grid computing. Michael Green, Lund University alumnus, entertained during the evening lecture.

The detailed programme is found below together with PDF-versions of all the talks given during the meeting. Also available below are some photos from the event and PDF-versions of the top three posters at the retreat's PhD student poster competition - congratulations to winner Katrin Ros (Astrophysics).

Group photo from the 2012 retreat (by Joachim Hein)

Programme

Monday, August 20, 2012

• 12:00-13:00 Lunch
• 13:00-13:05 Anders Johansen (COMPUTE study director): Welcome
• 13:05-13:20 COMPUTE steering group: COMPUTE news (travel grants, courses, seminars) (PDF, 1.3 MB, new tab)
• 13:20-14:20 Sara Santesson (Department of Communication and Media, LU): Science communication (PDF, 2.3 MB, new tab)
• 14:20-15:00 PhD student talks (1,2)
• André Ahlgren (Medical Radiation Physics): Medical radiation physics: how to COMPUTE medical images (PDF, 30.5 MB, new tab)
• Jesper Roy Christiansen (Theoretical High Energy Physics): Event generators at the Large Hadron Collider (PDF, 2.6 MB, new tab)
• 15:00-16:00 Coffee break, socialising in groups, poster viewing
• 16:00-17:20 PhD student talks (3,4,5,6)
• Hongxiao Jin (Physical Geography): What are you looking at with light sensor? - A view from statistics and sensors (PDF, 2.0 MB, new tab)
• Alexei Abrikossov (Physical Chemistry): Self-assembly of spherical magnetic colloid (PDF, 3.7 MB, new tab)
• Christian Holzgräfe (Computational Biology and Biological Physics): Mutation-induced protein fold switching - a Monte Carlo study (PDF, 7.0 MB, new tab)
• Daniel Karlsson (Mathematical Physics): Condensed matter systems out of equilibrium: Theory and numerical implementations (PDF, 1.6 MB, new tab)
• 17:20-18:20 Oxana Smirnova (Department of Physics, LU): Principles of distributed computing in data-intensive science (PDF, 15.2 MB, new tab)
• 19:00-20:30 Dinner
• 20:30-21:30 Michael Green (Data Intelligence A/S, Copenhagen, LU alumnus): Sales modelling and the art of quantifying media’s effect on consumer behavior

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

• 8:50-9.30 PhD student talks (7,8)
• Sebastian Rämisch (Biochemistry and Structural Biology): Computational design of symmetric protein assemblies (PDF, 11.3 MB, new tab)
• Anil Kurut (Theoretical Chemistry): What can we do with a bunch of spheres? (PDF, 11.9 MB, new tab)
• 09:30-10:20 Coffee break, poster viewing
• 10:20-11:00 PhD student talks (9,10)
• Tony Stillfjord (Centre for Mathematical Sciences): Splitting methods (PDF, 0.2 MB, new tab)
• Michiel Lambrechts (Astrophysics): Giant planet formation by tiny pebbles (PDF, 15.8 MB, new tab)
• 11:00-11:30 Sara Santesson (Department of Communication and Media, LU): Reflection on PhD student talks
• 11:30-12:00 Tobias Ambjörnsson (COMPUTE study director): Closing words with poster prize (PDF, 0.2 MB, new tab)
• 12:00-13:00 Lunch

Poster prize - top three

1. Katrin Ros (Astrophysics): Ice condensation as a planet formation mechanism (PDF, 2.2 MB, new tab)
2. Erik Henningsson (Centre for Mathematical Sciences): Splitting Methods (PDF, 0.3 MB, new tab)
3. Wenxin Zhang (Physical Geography): Arctic potential natural vegetation changes driven by a RCAO climate scenario (PDF, 3.9 MB, new tab)
   Jon Grumer ( Mathematical Physics): GRASP2k - A general realtivistic atomic structure package (PDF, 0.3 MB, new tab)

Some more photos from the 2012 retreat (by Joachim Hein)