The Manchester Modelling Network has announced their second meeting “Modelling and Health” on Wed 1^st March.

There will be six talks from expert speakers from various schools across the university. Each speaker will outline the role modelling can play in their area and a discussion will follow. There will then be an opportunity where the participants can hold small group discussions and/or quiz the speaker, with an aim to making concrete plans for collaborations and, hopefully, grant applications.

The research software community event of the year - the Software Sustainability Institute's Collaborations Workshop 2017 (CW17) takes place from the 27th-29th March, in Leeds. This year’s focus topic is Internet of Things (IoT) and Open Data: implications for research. The themes of sustainable software will also be featured.

Have you ever thought about how you can make your results easier to reproduce?

Make is a tool which can run commands to read files, process these files in some way, and write out the processed files. For example, in software development, Make is used to compile source code into executable programs or libraries, but Make can also be used for many other tasks.

Research IT will be delivering an introductory training course on the UNIX shell (aka the terminal, the Linux command line) on 20th April 2017.

Thank you to everyone who came along to the latest Research IT Club. A fantastic turn out and great to see so many new faces! The presentations are now available from the links below.

If you attended the event and have any feedback then please let us know – it is only our second event so we are open to suggestions!

The first meeting of the Manchester Modelling Network will take place on Wed 15^th Feb in Renold E1. The Network is aimed at facilitating new collaborations / research applications rather than being a research seminar.

The next Research IT Club will be held on the 14^th of Feb and will feature presentations on the latest developments from Research IT, making the most of our Data Processing Shared Facility (DPSF) and how researchers can be involved in the Research Life Cycle Programme. To attend the event please register so we know how much coffee to order in.

The next set of dates for our Drop-in sessions has now been announced. We’ve really enjoyed hearing about your great research and helping researchers from across the Faculties tackle their Research IT issues.

A support group, Statsclinic, has been created by a group of statisticians from the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health. Led by Dr Paraskevi Pericleous, the group run regular drop-in sessions for researchers from across the university who have stats problems. The drop-in sessions are the 4th Wednesday of every month. The next session will be on the 25th Jan at 14:00-15:00 in room 4.24 in Ellen Wilkinson Building (please arrive within the first 15 mins).

Do you use Avizo, the 3D visualization and analysis software for scientific and industrial data? Research staff from the Henry Moseley X-ray Imaging Facility in the School of Materials are now running two drop in sessions per week.

Jisc, in collaboration with The University of Sheffield, have organised a free workshop for all researchers interested and passionate about developing or using research software.

The organisers want to collate common problems and share experiences around managing and sharing software, as well as developing new solutions. There will be experts on hand to answer any questions and inform participants of available resources.

Our flagship computational facility, The CSF, is currently only available to those researchers contributing funds to the platform. However we are pleased to announce that our recent case to provide limited free-at-the-point-of-use computational resource to users without funds, particularly for those who are not computational specialists, has been successful.