October BEAR Newsletter

Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter We have been busy meeting lots of new PhD researchers this month at their inductions, as well as over 100 members of staff at the Staff Benefits Fair last week. Welcome to those who have just joined the mailing list – it is great to see all the … Continue reading “October BEAR Newsletter”

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Upcoming maintenance in December and January

As part of the standard maintenance cycle, as usual there will be an extended shutdown of Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Services around the second week of December to carry out major maintenance. This year there are additional major pieces of work to complete which mean more downtime than in previous years: This complex … Continue reading “Upcoming maintenance in December and January”

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BEAR PGR/ECR Conference opportunity 2025

We are starting to plan for the 14th BEAR conference – an event originally created to give PhD students experience in running a conference, as well as provide a showcase for the fantastic research done on services provided by Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR).  With previous support from the Graduate School and our suppliers, … Continue reading “BEAR PGR/ECR Conference opportunity 2025”

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We’re recruiting! Senior Research Software Engineer and Manager

Advanced Research Computing (ARC), at the University of Birmingham, is seeking to appoint a permanent Senior RSE and Manager to our Research Software Engineering (RSE) Service. As an award winning team, ARC has earned a national and international profile. You will be joining colleagues with the same role, each of whom spends approximately 25% of their time … Continue reading “We’re recruiting! Senior Research Software Engineer and Manager”

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September BEAR Newsletter

Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter September is the month for RSECon and this year, several of our Research Software Engineers (RSE) headed to Newcastle, where Gavin Yearwood and James Tyrrell led a successful lunchtime meeting of RSE’s involved in their own regional subgroups, with a large number of our local RSE Midlands members attending. Data-related … Continue reading “September BEAR Newsletter”

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Studying battery materials using high performance cluster BlueBEAR

In this case study, we hear from Sandeep Das (based at the School of Chemistry), who has been utilising BEAR to design novel Li-ion battery materials. I am a postdoctoral researcher and computational chemist in the Scanlon Materials Theory Group based at the School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham. My research is currently focussed on … Continue reading “Studying battery materials using high performance cluster BlueBEAR”

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A computational fluid dynamic model of an ultra clean air operating theatre

In this case study, we hear from Andrew Thomas (Birmingham Medical School), a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, who has been utilising BlueBEAR to produce a new Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model of the type of operating theatre used for joint replacement surgery. The work is part of a … Continue reading “A computational fluid dynamic model of an ultra clean air operating theatre”

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July BEAR Newsletter

As we head into the summer after a successful BEAR Challenge (see below), July is a quieter month for events, and there will be no BEAR newsletter in August. This month we have updates on BEAR services, including the doubling in capacity of our supercomputer, BlueBEAR, and an excellent job opportunity for finishing PhD students … Continue reading “July BEAR Newsletter”

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