April 25 and May 1, 2013 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm BMW Mini Plant, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 6NL First Tour Full, Second Tour arranged for May 1. Please visit second tour page for details. 100 Years of Car Production in Oxford We have a special guided tour of the Mini production plant as… Read more »
Category: Events
Past events at BCS Oxfordshire. For a list of coming events visit our Programme page.
A Contractual Approach to Manage Security Risks When Outsourcing
Dr Sam De Silva, Partner, Manches LLP Thursday 7th March 2013 – 7:30pm Oxford e-Research Centre, 6 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG Many businesses consider outsourcing because of cost savings, improved quality of the outsourced services and the opportunity to focus on its core competencies. One challenge in outsourcing which needs to be considered is… Read more »
Oxford Brookes-Oxford University “Bridging the Digital Research Divide”
21 March at St John’s College, Oxford The event is intended to improve the dialogue between practitioners, researchers and policy-makers in the broad area of ‘digital economy’ developments. If you’d like to attend, click here to complete the registration form. Number are limited, so please do this soon.
[Event Summary] Visit to European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
The visit to ECMWF was scheduled to start with a short introduction about ECMWF, the Computer infrastructure used at ECMWF and a guided tour to the computer hall where all the supercomputers used by ECMWF reside. Manfred Kloeppel started by introducing ECMWF as an independent intergovernmental organisation currently consisting of 37 Member and Co-Operating states.… Read more »
IT Challenges from Mars
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) Dr Helen Walker, Satellite Operations Group, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Thursday 24th January 2012 – 7:30pm Oxford e-Research Centre, 6 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG Abstract ESA’s Mars Express satellite was launched in 2003, and has been in orbit around Mars for almost 10 years. There are seven instruments… Read more »
