Events

PSDI is so much more than a Digital Infrastructure. It’s also about building and connecting with our community. PSDI runs webinars, workshops, community townhalls and training events, we invite you to attend have a look at our upcoming events, look at our past events or check out our event recordings.

  • Webinar: Data Revival

    Online Virtual Event, Online

    This webinar continues our look at our pathfinder activities in the current phase. The subject of this webinar is extraction of knowledge from lab books, which is being undertaken as part of our Pathfinder 2 & 3 activities in conjunction with spin out company Data Revival. This webinar will be presented by Samuel Munday from Data Revival. The recording of this webinar is now available on YoutubeMaking the intangible tangible: The journey from lab notebook to digital insight The University of Southampton's chemistry department has accumulated a wealth of chemical knowledge over the years, some of which has been captured in over 2000 lab books. The vast majority of these have been sat gathering dust in a cupboard for a long time, unable to be destroyed due to both the value of knowledge they hold and their importance for Health and Safety reporting. However, this knowledge is intangible and difficult to access, offering no value to the department whilst taking up space and presenting a fire risk. We present our work on turning this unstructured resource into a structured accessible database that holds FAIR data open to analytics and intelligent search. Our system utilises AI-driven natural language processing techniques, as […]

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  • Webinar: Pathfinder – Data to Knowledge

    Online Virtual Event, Online

    This webinar continues our look at our pathfinder activities in the current phase. The subject of this webinar is pathfinder 5 which focuses on transforming data to knowledge through the construction of workflows. In particular this looks machine learning for interatomic potentials (MLIP). The recording of this webinar is now available on YoutubeThis webinar will be presented by Alin Elena and Federica Zanca from Science and Technology Facilities Council Daresbury Laboratory. Abstract  AI is ubiquitous in all walks of life and research. In the last 5 years active research in the field of understanding how atoms and molecules interact using AI has revolutionised the field. The outcome of these efforts, machine learning interatomic potentials, MLIP, has produced the breakthrough that recommends them as the next paradigm change in atomistic molecular simulations, with applications ranging from battery design to catalytic chemical reaction modelling for hydrogen storage or CO2 capture. All these advances need expensive calculations to be produced and used for training machine learning models. In addition, the models resulting from these models are non-trivial in terms of storage and distribution compared with previous generation interatomic potentials which tended to be analytical. Current models use millions of structures for training, and this […]

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  • Webinar: Sample Tracking with Ampletracks

    Online Virtual Event, Online

    This webinar continues the PSDI webinar series, in this webinar representatives from PSDI Partner the Henry Royce Institute present their Ampletracks sample tracking system. This webinar will be presented by Stavrina Dimosthenous (Henry Royce Institute) and Ben Jefferson. The recording of this webinar is now available on YoutubeAbstract  Ampletracks is a configurable web-app built, originally, for sample tracking in and out of laboratory environments. In this talk, we will discuss Ampletracks in brief, and why and how we built Ampletracks. We will demonstrate Ampletracks implemented for a materials science audience. We will demonstrate the ‘User’ workflow, and Ampletracks features across the multiple ways to register a sample record, and intrinsic (like record type) and extrinsic (unlike record type) relationships between records. We will then demonstrate how to set different permission profiles for users, and ‘superuser’ permissions. To finish, we will briefly discuss other domains to apply Ampletracks, and how we use Ampletracks to track the development of Ampletracks.Stavrina Dimosthenous is a Data Curator at the Henry Royce Institute for advanced materials (Royce) in the UK, based at the Royce Hub Building at The University of Manchester. She holds a PhD in Materials Science, and has conducted research in materials science and […]

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  • Webinar: Using the Galaxy Platform in Large Scale Experiments

    Online Virtual Event, Online

    This webinar continues our look at our pathfinder activities in the current phase. The subject of this webinar is pathfinder 7 and will discuss how their software helps in workflows containing large data sets generated by simulations and experiments at national facilities. This webinar will be presented by Leandro Liborio from STFC, Harwell

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    Free
  • PSDI Townhall

    IOM3 Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 297 Euston Road, London

    The Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) is running a Town hall event on 20th June and would like to invite representatives from across the Physical Sciences and related domains to attend. At this Townhall event we will be showcasing some of the development activities that are currently going on in PSDI, gathering feedback from the community and providing information on how to get more involved with PSDI activities.

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  • Webinar: Pathfinder CCP-NC Database

    Online Virtual Event, Online

    This webinar continues our look at our pathfinder activities in the current phase. The subject of this webinar is pathfinder 6 and will discuss the development of a Magres Database for improving FAIR data in the magres community. This webinar will be presented by Sathya Sai Seetharaman from STFC, Harwell

  • Workshop: PSDI community workshop – Edinburgh

    Charteris Land Building Charteris Land Building, Room 5.02, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    The Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) is running a community workshop on 24th July (Edinburgh) and would like to invite representatives from across the Physical Sciences, particularly data stewards, researchers, or research support staff. At this community workshop we will be showcasing an introduction to the PSDI project and an opportunity to share challenges and inform the development of services that PSDI might offer. This will be structured as a focus group, followed by a discussion of the points raised by each group. This is part of a series of workshops.

    Free
  • Workshop: PSDI Community Workshop Southampton

    Sir James Matthews Building University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

    The Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) is running a community workshop on 8th August (Southampton) and would like to invite representatives from across the Physical Sciences, particularly data stewards, researchers, or research support staff. At this community workshop we will be showcasing an introduction to the PSDI project and an opportunity to share challenges and inform the development of services that PSDI might offer. This will be structured as a focus group, followed by a discussion of the points raised by each group. This is part of a series of workshops.

    Free
  • Webinar: Introduction to NOMAD

    Online Virtual Event, Online

    This webinar will showcase NOMAD’s applications in material synthesis, characterization, simulations, and AI-driven research, with a focus on solar cells, heterogeneous catalysis, and metal-organic frameworks.

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  • Webinar: KnowLedger: An Open Ecosystem for Research Data Management

    Online Virtual Event, Online

    This hybrid seminar will showcase the KnowLedger project that is currently in development. The in person component at the University of Southampton Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Department and the online component through zoom.

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  • Webinar: Universal Usability

    Online Virtual Event, Online

    This Webinar explores the fundamental principles of usability and accessibility, emphasizing their vital role in designing effective and user-friendly tools. We'll address the diverse needs of different user groups and how accommodating these needs enhances software usability for everyone. Through this webinar, you'll discover best practices and design guidelines, illustrated with examples of both successful and flawed design practices.

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