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What impact is generative AI having on research software engineering and scientific computing, and how can we identify where the real benefits could lie? ICCS Co-director (Computer science) Professor Dominic Orchard outlines the current situation and how GenAI might be explored in future.The rise of generative AI via pre-trained transformers presen…

At the Durham HPC Days 2026, ICCS team members Marion Weinzierl, Jack Franklin and Tom Meltzer – all members of the Women in HPC (WHPC) Cambridge and East Anglia chapter – collaborated with Eleanor Broadway of the WHPC Executive Board to examine how the HPC community can close the EDI implementation gap.WHPC is an international organisation working…

Last week saw the fifth annual ICCS Summer School – and what a week it was.More than 70 people – including representatives of the members of the Virtual Earth Sciences Institute (VESRI), PhD and postdoc students, ICCS summer interns and staff – attended the 5-day event at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge.Providing training and supp…

Josh Lanham, a Postdoctoral Research Associate based at ICCS, and Laura Cimoli, Assistant Research Professor, are lead author and co-author of a recent paper published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment. Get the inside story on how they inferred that deep-ocean heat has been marching closer to Antarctica...Antarctica is losing ice at an i…

Mathematical modelling work by Charles Powell, an Early Career Researcher based at ICCS, is the focus of an article in Plus magazine.Inigo is funding a three-year research programme at ICCS called InSPIRe – “Inigo Storm Prediction and Impact Research” – which will apply the latest advances in computing and artificial intelligence to deepen understa…

The Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS) at the University of Cambridge is a cross-disciplinary centre for computational science, data science and machine learning, focusing on the application of these disciplines in climate science research. ICCS will host the 29th European workshop on Automatic Differentiation (EuroAD29) on 29 and 30…

The Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS) is delighted to announce the appointment of Jack Atkinson, Marion Weinzierl and Tom Meltzer as Principal Research Software Engineers.The Principals will share line management of the rest of ICCS’s team of Research Software Engineers (RSEs) and will have responsibility for these themes: Science a…

ICCS Research Software Engineers Joe Wallwork and Jack Atkinson ran a workshop in Cambridge that brought together 40 researchers, scientists and software engineers from across Europe to discuss coupling machine learning technologies into large-scale scientific models. The two-day event at the Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge, featured eight …

This year, several students joined the ICCS team as summer interns, with projects ranging from environmental modelling to science communication. During this eight-week programme, the interns had the chance to hone their skills in a variety of different fields and get a taste for what it’s like to do research in academia.Michael Lin, a maths undergr…

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly is the largest geoscience conference in Europe, with nearly 21,000 participants from over 120 countries. The conference brings together geoscientists, particularly early career researchers, from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space science…

The following blog is written by Dr Adeleke Bankole. Adeleke is a research software engineer at the ICCS specialising in computational methods for fluid dynamics.In June this year, ICCS's Research Software Engineer (RSE) Dr Adeleke Bankole was invited as a speaker at the yearly Data Science Africa (DSA) Summer School and Workshop in Ibadan, Nigeria…

Earlier this year, ICCS Early Career Advanced Fellow Dr Laura Cimoli set off to the Bellingshausen Sea off the coast of Antarctica to study the ocean circulation and the impacts of glacial melting in the region.As the team was conducting their survey, however, an enormous iceberg calving event caused them to rapidly change course. Iceberg A-84, app…

Earlier this month, the ICCS hosted its fourth annual Summer School at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. The week-long event brought together members of the Schmidt Sciences Virtual Earth System Research Institute (VESRI), other project partners, and local students for a variety of training workshops, networking opportunities, and a full-da…

Dr Joe Wallwork, ICCS Research Software Engineer, reports back from Kaiserslautern.Derivatives are at the core of scientific computing: from the Jacobian matrices used in nonlinear solvers to the gradient vectors used in optimisation methods; from the back-propagation operator in machine learning (ML) to the Hessian matrices used in uncertainty qua…

The Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS) is proud to collaborate on TiMBER — a bold, multi-institutional research effort to forecast tipping points in marine ecosystems and help the UK prepare for their consequences and opportunities, especially in the fishing and aquaculture industries.Funded by the UK Government’s Advanced Research +…