Unlocking the Power of BlueBEAR for Social Science Research

In this case study, we hear from Shuyu Li (based in the Department of Economics), who has been utilising BEAR for tackling complex environmental economics problems. As a PhD student in Environmental Economics at the University of Birmingham, I’ve always been fascinated by the ways in which cutting-edge technology can unlock new avenues for research. My work … Continue reading “Unlocking the Power of BlueBEAR for Social Science Research”

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How BlueBEAR is helping us evaluate air pollution control policies around the world

In this case study we hear from Bowen Liu, an Assistant Professor in Industrial and Business Economics, who has been making use of BlueBEAR to enable his research into evaluating air pollution control policies around the world. Understanding the effectiveness of clean air policies is challenging, for example, short-term changes in air quality are dominated by meteorological variations, … Continue reading “How BlueBEAR is helping us evaluate air pollution control policies around the world”

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Bringing to BEAR – Creating a Challenge for the BEAR Challenge

This year June came around again and it’s BEAR Challenge time! This is an event we hold every year to try and introduce University of Birmingham undergraduates and masters’ students to the world of High-Performance Computing (HPC). This year we attracted ten groups of students from across the university from computer science, physics, maths, and … Continue reading “Bringing to BEAR – Creating a Challenge for the BEAR Challenge”

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Baskerville pushes the boundaries

In this case study, we hear from Christos Baziotis, from Edinburgh, who has been making use of Baskerville to enable his research in text generation using machine learning models.  I am a (3rd) final year Ph.D. candidate at the ILCC at the University of Edinburgh and a member of EdinburghNLP under the supervision of Barry Haddow and Alexandra Birch, in collaboration with Biao Zhang.  In … Continue reading “Baskerville pushes the boundaries”

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Joining Advanced Research Computing

On behalf of Dr Ryan Pepper Since March, I’ve been working in the BEAR team as a Research Software Engineer (RSE). For those who are not familiar with the term, RSEs are effectively software engineers with either a background or interest in working on problems in academic research, who work with researchers to write code … Continue reading “Joining Advanced Research Computing”

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