Prof. Nicholas Zabaras is organising a workshop on Big Data and Predictive Computational Modelling, together with Prof. Mark Girolami (Warwick Statistics) and Prof. Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis (TU Munich), to take place in the Institute for Advanced study at the Technical University Munich from 18-20th May 2015. The workshop will include plenary talks from internationally-renowned researchers in the areas of Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) and Computational Statistics/Machine Learning. In line with the goals of the Warwick Centre for Predictive Modelling, the emphasis of the meeting is on identifying synergies and common themes for these communities and proposing innovative research directions that can accelerate the impact of uncertainty modeling in engineering and the sciences as well as demonstrate the capabilities of computational uncertainty quantification methods and tools in various problems. For more details, see the workshop website.

Dr. James Kermode joins the Warwick Centre for Predictive Modelling and the School of Engineering as an Assistant Professor. He arrives from the Department of Physics at King's College London, where he worked with Prof. Alessandro De Vita to understand fracture at the atomic scale. Dr. Kermode is a theoretical physicist with expertise in developing multiscale materials modelling algorithms and the software that implements them. He has a track record in using this parameter-free modelling to make quantitative predictions of "chemomechanical" materials failure processes where stress and chemistry are tightly coupled, and is looking forward to applying and extending these techniques within the Centre.

Dr. Aldegunde Rodriguez joins the WCPM as a Research Fellow from Swansea University. After studies at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, he received his PhD from the same institution in 2009. He worked as a Researcher at the Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia from 2010 to 2012 (spending some time as Visiting Scholar at the University of Glasgow). In Swansea, he worked as Research Officer in the Nanoelectric Devices Group with Dr. Antonio Martinez and Dr. Karol Kalna.

His research interests are focused in the development of tools for the simulation of electron transport in semiconductor devices.