English Edition: Say hi to the new fellows of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) - Anne-Lee Steele, Cass Gould van Praag, Samantha Ahern and Sara Villa. In this episode they tell us all about the plans for their fellowship. And it covers a wide range, as you will hear.

Links:

• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/anne-lee-steele Anne-Lee
• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/cassandra-gould-van-praag Cass
• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/samantha-ahern Samantha
• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/sara-villa

I'd like to thank the SSI for supporting this show.

Don't forget there is the Collaborations Workshop, organised by the SSI, coming up at the end of April: 28-30 April 2026 in Belfast.

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Deutsche Ausgabe: In dieser Folge machen wir uns auf die Suche nach dunkler Materie - mit dem ALPS II Experiment am Deutschen Elektron Synchroton in Hamburg. Mit meinen Gästen Axel Lindner und Sven Karstensen tauchen wir in die Welt der Axionen, mysteriöse Teilchen, und wie man sie aufspüren kann. Daneben gibt es, wie immer in der Teilchenphysik, spannende Fragen zu Software und Datenaufarbeitung. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören.

Links:

• https://alps.desy.de/ Die Home Page des ALPS Projekts
• https://www.desy.de/research/facilities__projects/alps_ii/index_eng.html
  • https://alps.desy.de/our_group/ Die ALPS II Kollaboration
• https://darkmatter-alps.desy.de/dark-matter.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axion

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English Edition: how are real numbers e.g. 0.1 represented on computers? What can go wrong with using their representation in calculations? And does it matter? These and other questions are the subject of this ByteSized episode with my guests Prof. Ulrich Ruede (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg), Andreas Herten and Edoardo di Napoli (both Research Centre Juelich).

Links:

• https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html an online tool to convert numbers into their bit/hex equivalent - also showing the rounding errors
• https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/103162.103163 Goldberg Paper: What every computer scientist should know about floating points
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02492 revisiting Goldberg, Vincent Lafage
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754 the Wiki entry on the IEEE 754 standard for floating points (the standard itself is not accessible for free)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in_the_last_place definition von "ulp"
• https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/floating-point-8-an-introduction-to-efficient-lower-precision-ai-training/ NVidia’s take on lower precision numbers
• https://indico.esa.int/event/445/contributions/8473/attachments/5559/9378/gernigon_cedric_EDHPC2023.pdf list of lower precision formats
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_remainder_theorem Chinese remainder theorem

I would like to thank the STEP-UP project in the UK for supporting this series of ByteSized episodes.

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