Ben Waugh on The Carpentries

Teaching Support IT Job at UCL Physics and Astronomy

Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We’re looking for someone with IT skills, and interests in teaching and physics, to work with us at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL (University College London).

This is a system manager job with an emphasis on supporting our teaching, and will involve a wide range of responsibilities, including managing a Linux cluster and interfacing PCs to lab equipment as well as providing first-line support for the university Windows environment.

Teaching Support IT Job at UCL Physics and Astronomy

Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We're looking for someone with IT skills, and interests in teaching and physics, to work with us at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL (University College London).

Other responsibilities may include maintaining and developing an IPython notebook server for teaching, and working with teaching staff to apply other innovative tools.

The application deadline is midnight on Sunday 6th July. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK.

Workshop for High-Energy Physics at UCL, Part 2

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Three months after part 1, the second half of the UCL Software Carpentry workshop for High-Energy Physics took place on Friday 15th February 2013.

The experimental format with two sessions three months apart might have worked better if, as envisaged, we had managed to get an online discussion going in the gap. Unfortunately this did not work out. Despite several attempts at chasing up the participants, no-one registered or posted anything on the course web site. After talking to some of the students, I think their interest was just not great enough to overcome the bureaucracy involved in registering on the UCL Moodle server and the tendency to focus on their other (assessed) courses and research projects. Attendance was down from 65% to 30% (6 of 20 students), although those who did attend were clearly motivated, worked hard and asked thoughtful questions. With two helpers (James Hetherington and HEP postgrad Sam Cook) and myself as instructor, we had a student:staff ratio of 2:1.

Workshop for High-Energy Physics at UCL

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Following the success of the open bootcamp at UCL in April/May this year, we decided to have a go at introducing some Software Carpentry to the first-year postgraduate students in my own research group, High-Energy Physics (HEP). There is already a longstanding University of London intercollegiate lecture programme for these students, including some programming in C++ and Python. The new workshops aim to help participants consolidate and extend their existing Python knowledge, as well as learning about more general best practice in software development, by following an extended worked example using version control and test-driven development.

UCL Researchers to Get Help with Software Development

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

University College London (UCL) has hired a team leader to start a three-person team for Research Software Development. James Hetherington will spend a lot of his time in the next few months talking to those of us working in various areas of research, so we will get to provide some input into the team's activities. However, we do know what they will be offering advice and consultation on software development best practices, including the fundamentals as well as the headline-grabbing HPC work, and hosting version control and issue tracking services.