Research Computing Showcase Day 2025

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Ingvars Vitenburgs gave a talk on “Extended coupled cluster approach to twisted graphene layers”. This video presents a study of correlation effects in twisted bilayer graphene using the extended coupled cluster method at consistent mean-field and beyond mean-field truncations. 

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Matthew Gummow gave a talk on “Demonstrating the utility of 2DIR as a tool for experimentally validating structural prediction”. This video presents the research aimed at demonstrating that experimental 2DIR data can be reliably interpreted by establishing a robust method for calculating vibrational couplings. 

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Alvaro Cea gave a talk on “Geometrically nonlinear analysis of flexible aircraft on modern hardware architectures”. This video introduces the novel methodology developed for the structural and aeroelastic analysis of large flexible systems with slender, streamlined components, such as aircraft or wind turbines.  

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Jonathon Murray gave a talk on “Far-infrared Observation GUI software (FROG)”. This video outlines a graphical user interface (FROG) for front end systems for the full control and monitoring of commercial spectrometers measuring ground and airborne far-infrared spectra developed in collaboration with the RSE team. 

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Mike Heyn gave a talk on “Global simulations for operational space weather forecasting”. This video presents recent developments within the SWIMMR-A project at the UK Met Office and Bergen-Imperial Global Geospace (BIGG) project at ESA. 

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Bozhidar Stevanoski gave a talk on “Query Cheetah: Fast automated discovery of attribute inference attacks against query-based systems”. This video outlines QueryCheetah, a fast and effective method for automated discovery of privacy attacks against Query-based systems. 

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Juan Carlos Bilbao-Ludena gave a talk on “An exploration of the Mandelbrot set and the use of scientific visualisation tools”. This video examines the computational aspects of the Mandelbrot set in C++, which was part of the ReCoDe (Research and Code Development) project run by the RSE team. 

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, David Orme gave a talk on “The virtual ecosystem”. This video describes the Virtual Ecosystem simulation, aiming to represent microclimate and hydrological processes in their full complexity and explicitly model all three relevant biotic domains (plants, animals and soil microbes) using metabolic principles.

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Pierre Lasorak gave a talk on “DUNE’s run control”. This video describes the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) and its unique challenges for data acquisition and details the ongoing and future work with the run control carried out at Imperial College London. 

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Ryan Payton gave a talk on “Imperial x Microsoft: Trusted Research Environment & Self-Service Azure”. The video describes the work that Imperial have done with Microsoft to develop a Trusted Research Environment in Microsoft Azure.  

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Dipanjan Majumdar gave a talk on “uDALES: a multi-physics large-eddy simulation framework for urban microclimate modelling”. This video outline the open-source, multi-physics microclimate modelling framework uDALES, specifically developed for studying outdoor urban environments.  

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Edwin Garcia gave a talk on “Single molecule localisation microscopy in HPC environment for processing, analysis and applications in biomedical imaging’. This video outlines the development of a modular open-source microscope instrumentation (easySTORM), a cost effective impermetation of dSTORM (Direct Stochastic Optical Reconstruction microscopy), using their openFrame hardware platform 

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Isabella von Holstein gave a talk on “the STEP-UP platform”. This video gives an overview of the STEP-UP project, a Strategic TEchnical Platform for University technical Professionals, what it has already achieved and the plans for the future 

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Balazs Bohar gave a talk on “ iSNP: An advanced computational pipeline for stratifying patients in complex diseases”. This video introduces the integrated Single Nucleotide Polymorphism network platform (iSNP), a precision medicine pipeline engineered to elucidate the mechanisms by which SNPs perturb cellular regulatory networks and contribute to disease pathogenesis through their combinatorial effects 

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Wes Hinsley gave a talk on “ Hipercow – how easy could HPC be?”. This video explains how they empower a department of disease modellers to use high performance and high throughput cluster facilities from their own desktops while hardly being aware they are doing so.  

As part of the Research Computing Showcase Day 2025, Arianna Cox gave a talk on “Fast Machine Learning on FPGAs for Particle Physics”. This video highlights the collaborative efforts of Imperial College, Intel, and Lenovo within the ICICLE partnership, focusing on enhancing machine learning capabilities using Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)