# Progress report for Southampton
Hans Fangohr
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## Financial and administrative setup
- Everything on track it seems: money arrived, first expenses done
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## Hiring
- Hiring research fellow
- Deadline for Applications: 15 December 2015
- Selection, Shortlisting and Interviews completed
- Job offer request submitted in December 2015
- Anticipated Start date: 15 February 2016
- Delay in recruitment as highest ranked candidate has Croation nationality and this required additional checks regarding the EU and UK employment laws.
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## Achievements 1/2
Main task for now: [T3.8: Python Interface for OOMMF micromagnetic simulation](https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/57)
- Presentation of OpenDreamKit and Jupyter-OOMMF (JOOMMF) project at largest international Magnetism meeting (combined Magnetism and Magnetic Materials and InterMag meeting, Jan 2016, San Diego, CA, US): http://opendreamkit.org/activities/2016-01-12-joommf-talk-MMM2016.html
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## Achievements 2/2
- Initial exploration of Python-OOMMF interface options https://github.com/fangohr/oommf-python
- Meeting with both OOMMF Core developers Michael Donahue and Don Porter (13 Jan 2016) to discuss and explore interface opportunities and challenges
- Set up of project webpages at http://joommf.github.io
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## Main upcoming tasks and deliverables
- [T3.8: Python Interface for OOMMF micromagnetic simulation](https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/57)
### Desirable
- Like to hook up with Virtual Machine/Image/Docker/Anaconda team to include Micromagnetic software in Virtual Images and Containers [D3.1](https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/58)
We have a PhD student who is keen to support the micromagnetic side (@mvousden)