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The Role of Uncertainty in Mathematical Modelling of Pandemics, Cambridge, UK, 8 – 10 February 2022

The VECMA toolkit (VECMAtk) we have developed to support VVUQ for multiscale applications has been made available to the community in stages throughout the project, under an open source release with a final updated release scheduled in January 2022. The toolkit has been equipped with UQPs and VVPs which are optimized and flexibly applicable for…

VECMA Training Event – EasySurrogate, QCG-PilotJob, and FabSim3

Learn to apply automated Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification (VVUQ) to complex single- and multi-scale applications! We at VECMA are pleased to announce a free online training event on EasySurrogate, QCG-PilotJob, and FabSim3. Date and Time: 23 July 2021, at 09:55- 15:30 CET (08:55-14:30 UK) Length: 5h35m Platform: Zoom Registration Fee: Free Services accessed: Jupyter…

VECMA at ISC 2021

VECMA will participate in ISC High Performance, one of the most prestigious supercomputing conferences, for the second consecutive year. This year, ISC will address current developments critical to high performance computing, machine learning and data analytics, as well as the future advances that will shape these technologies, through the following topics: System Architecture, Applications/Algorithms, Emerging…

VECMA Toolkit Hackathon – 25-27 May 2021

The Fifth VECMA Toolkit Hackathon is taking place on 25-27 May 2021. The Hackathon will allow you to interact with our VECMAtk experts, who will help you apply your choice of VECMAtk tools on your own codes and applications. VECMAtk enables automated Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification (VVUQ) for complex single- and multi-scale applications that can…

Research Fellow in Virtual Human Cardiovascular Modelling & Simulation at the Emerging Exascale

Supervisor: Professor P. V. Coveney Closing date: 26 April 2021 The UCL Centre for Computational Science (CCS) are recruiting for a candidate to join a very active inter-disciplinary group in the Centre for Computational Science and will perform modelling and simulation of the cardiovascular system on the whole human scale. The post-holder will work on…

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Theme Issue on Reproducibility

We are delighted to announce the publication of a Theme Issue in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. The issue is titled “Reliability and Reproducibility in Computational Science: Implementing Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification in Silico” and a significant proportion of the papers contained therein stems from research led by UCL’s Centre…

Seminar on VECMAtk and the impact of uncertainty on predictions of the CovidSim epidemiological code

You are invited to join an online seminar on VECMAtk and the impact of uncertainty on predictions of the CovidSim epidemiological code, which takes place on 10:00UK/11:00CET, Friday 16 April This seminar covers two related subjects: 1) Speaker: Dr Derek Groen, Brunel University London The first part of the seminar introduces the VECMA Toolkit (VECMAtk).…

VECMA Toolkit Hackathon – 21-23 April 2021

The fourth VECMA Toolkit Hackathon is taking place on 21-23 April 2021. The Hackathon will allow you to interact with our VECMAtk experts, who will help you apply your choice of VECMAtk tools on your own codes and applications. VECMAtk enables automated Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification (VVUQ) for complex single- and multi-scale applications that can…

Online talk on the role of simulation-based science

In this edition of the Simulation-based Science series hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of the University of Amsterdam, Peter Coveney will give a talk on the role of simulation-based science in decision-making for healthcare, government and industry. When: 26 February 2021 | 1600-1700CET / 1500-1600GMT Where: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/6023898922 Title: The Role of Simulation-Based…

VECMA on CovidSim

In an article titled ‘The impact of uncertainty on predictions of the CovidSim epidemiological code’ and published by Nature Computational Science on 22 February 2021, VECMA reports on an analysis of CovidSim, the Imperial College model upon which the UK government relied in part to model various non-pharmaceutical intervention strategies, and guide its government policy…