UCL Engineering Inaugural Lecture Series: Professor James Hetherington

Abstract:

Professor James Hetherington will review his journey in computational science: the use of data, software and compute intensive methods and tools in science and scholarship. He will focus on computational science as an engineering discipline, addressing questions of reliability and trustworthiness in simulation and modelling, and touch on the emerging impact of generative artificial intelligence on this field.

About James Hetherington
James is Professor of Computational Science and Director of UCL’s Advanced Research Computing Centre. The Centre for Advanced Research Computing is both a professional services centre providing the supercomputers, data, software, and staff scientists and engineers that enable digital transformation in research across the university, and an academic research and teaching institution in the methods of digital scholarship.
He is also joint Pro-Vice Provost for the Data Empowered Societies grand challenge at UCL, and is particularly interested in the technical and sociotechnical methods that ensure data and compute intensive research is trustworthy. He was previously Director of Research Engineering at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. He was chief data science advisor to the joint biosecurity centre during the coronavirus pandemic.

This event takes place in person at UCL East. It will be recorded.

5.30pm - 6.00pm: Arrival - Marshgate, UCL East. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

6.00pm -7.00pm Inaugural Lecture:

• Introduction - Prof Daniel Alexander, Head of Department, UCL Computer Science

• Inaugural Lecture - Professor James Hetherington

• Vote of Thanks - Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein CBE FREng

7.00pm - 8.30pm: Reception
Drinks reception and a light buffet with views over Stratford.

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Info: Drinks and light bites on the 7th floor with views over Stratford.

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