UPCOMING EVENTS

Decarbonising the built environment and delivering the Warm Homes Plan - the role of social science and engineering

• 2025
• The Royal Society and online

Amongst the huge number of separate activities needed to reach net zero, decarbonising the built environment is one of the most challenging, particularly domestic homes - with millions of separate owners, and with retrofit a much bigger part of the problem than new build. With a policy backdrop of the government's Warm Homes Plan, how can social science and engineering contribute to solving this huge challenge?

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Exascale computing for research and the implications of quantum computing, AI and Net Zero

• 2025
• University of Edinburgh

The UK has provided a succession of increasingly powerful high-performance computing facilities for UK researchers for many years. Do recent developments in AI change what researchers might need in terms of high performance computing? What are the implications of any future provision of exascale computing of expected developments in quantum computing? And how can the environmental impact of exascale computing be reduced? As decisions on new investments in high performance computing come due, these are some of the issues we hope to explore in this event being organised by the Foundation for Science and Technology. This event is being held in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, which is the home of UK national high performance computing research systems such as ARCHER2, Cirrus and DiRAC-Tursa.

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