Events 20/21

Extraordinary General Meeting

6pm Mon 28 Jun

To join the meeting on Monday, you can use the short link here: https://go.uwcs.uk/egm2021/

Summer LAN

12pm Mon 28 Jun

It's that time of the year again, it's Summer LAN time! Join us Monday to Friday of Week 10, 28th June to 2nd July for a fun-filled week of games, chilling out and just generally doing things.

Nettitude Capture the Flag

2pm Wed 19 May

Nettitude will run a capture the flag (CTF) event at 2pm on May 19. This will be conducted remotely via Microsoft Teams.

⚡ Lightning Talks [Term 3, Week 3]

7pm Mon 10 May

We'll be running a session of lightning talks (short talks that last about 15 minutes) across a set of different areas and themes related to technology! They'll be given by current members of the society and some of our graduates who have gone on to work in industry. In the past we've had talks related to programming tools, problems encountered in industry and even a karaoke talk about functional programming! You can find the previous talks on our Read more >>

Annual General Meeting

6pm Fri 19 Feb

Every year societies elect their exec during term 2 at their AGM. These positions will be held from the start of term 3 to the end of term 2 the following year. The AGM is also a chance for the exec to meet with their membership to discuss the running of the society, so you should still attend if you have an interest in the society even if you don't want to run for exec. We'd love to hear from you regarding what we're doing well, and what we could be doing better.

G-Research Coding Challenge

6pm Thu 26 Nov

Join us for the G-Research Coding Challenge, where you'll compete in teams in a series of progressively more difficult software development challenges.

Lightning Talks II

7pm Thu 19 Nov

We'll be running a session of lightning talks (short talks that last about 15 minutes) across a set of different areas and themes related to technology! They'll be given by current members of the society and some of our graduates who have gone on to work in industry. In the past we've had talks related to programming tools, problems encountered in industry and even a karaoke talk about functional programming! You can find the previous talks on our Read more >>

Friday Night Gaming

7pm Fri 13 Nov

Every Friday during term we usually host an all-night gaming session in the computer science department building (the DCS). This term we will still be hosting the event but it will be online. Our Discord server is used by a huge selection of students with a variety of gaming interests, and a number of voice channels for gaming groups, as well as a lobby for finding people to play games with.

LSEG Talk

3pm Wed 04 Nov

One of our sponsors, LSEG is going to be giving a talk!

Jack-O-LANtern

6pm Fri 30 Oct

Replacing our weekly gaming session for this week, we're running our first weekend-long virtual LAN party! We're gonna be hosting a range of activities across the weekends, including various tournaments, social gaming sessions and a quiz! We'll be running our music server Amphi throughout so we can have synced audio playing too! It'll all be on our Discord server, so make sure to come along, no sign-ups a…

Optiver Webinar - Low Latency C++ Workshop

1pm Tue 27 Oct

Do you want to learn how to write the fastest and best performing code possible? Are you ready to dive into assembly, cache internals and squeeze the last nanosecond out of your code? If so, then join our low-latency workshop on code optimisation!

Friday Night Gaming

7pm Fri 23 Oct

Every Friday during term we usually host an all-night gaming session in the computer science department building (the DCS). This term we will still be hosting the event but it will be online. Our Discord server is used by a huge selection of students with a variety of gaming interests, and a number of voice channels for gaming groups, as well as a lobby for finding people to play games with.

Friday Night Gaming

7pm Fri 16 Oct

Every Friday during term we usually host an all-night gaming session in the computer science department building (the DCS). This term we will still be hosting the event but it will be online. Our Discord server is used by a huge selection of students with a variety of gaming interests, and a number of voice channels for gaming groups, as well as a lobby for finding people to play games with.

MathSoc Ada Lovelace Day Talks

2pm Wed 14 Oct

Our friends at Warwick Maths Society are running an event this week:

Friday Night Gaming

7pm Fri 09 Oct

Every Friday during term we usually host an all-night gaming session in the computer science department building (the DCS). This term we will still be hosting the event but it will be online. Our Discord server is used by a huge selection of students with a variety of gaming interests, and a number of voice channels for gaming groups, as well as a lobby for finding people to play games with.

Git Good

3pm Wed 07 Oct

Version control is a vital skill for computer scientists, considered more valuable to employers than ever before. Whether you're a lone programmer working on a pet project, or a huge team of hundreds of people working at several offices around the world on millions of lines of code - version control is extremely useful to help you organise your codebase.

Friday Night Gaming

6am Fri 02 Oct

Our first gaming session of the term!

Lightning Talks - Fresher's Edition

7pm Tue 29 Sep

We'll be running a session of lightning talks (short talks that last about 15 minutes) across a set of different areas and themes related to technology! They'll be given by current members of the society and some of our graduates who have gone on to work in industry. In the past we've had talks related to programming tools, problems encountered in industry and even a karaoke talk about functional programming!