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Graduate Student Workshop Programme

 

Wednesday 8 January to Saturday 11 January 2014

Wednesday 8 January 2014

8:00  – 9:00  

Registration
Venue:  School of Computational and Applied Mathematics,
First Floor, Senate House
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9:00  –  9:15             

Official Opening and Welcome
Venue:   CAM Honours Computing Laboratory
Chair:     David Mason
Welcome address:  Professor Ebrahim Momoniat,  Head of       
School of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Coordinator: David Mason                          
Organisation of Workshop 

9:15  –  10:40 

Chair:   David Mason
Problem Presentations
20 minutes each presentation

  • Neville Fowkes: Traffic lights or traffic circles
  • Alan Watson: Warehouse stock layout
  • Charles Fodya: Predicting survival on the Titanic
  • Ashleigh Hutchinson:  Application of Euler-Bernoulli beam  theory to fracturing of rock layers and surface buckling                             

 

10:40  –  11:00 

Morning tea
Students asked to think on the problems and decide on one.

11:00  –  11:15

Chair David Mason
Identification of Study Group
Formation of Study Groups and Room allocation

11:15  – 13:00

Study Group meetings
Students work under supervision

13:00  –  14:00

Lunch

14:00  –  16:00

Study Group meetings

16:00  –  16:30

Afternoon tea

16:30  –  18:00

Study Group meetings

18:00  –  19:00

Dinner

19:00

Free evening

Thursday 9 January 2014

8:30  –  9:00           

Study Group meetings
Planning the work for the day

9:00  –  10:30

Study Group meetings

10:30  –  11:00

Morning tea

11:00  –  12:00

Presentation: Real Impact Analytics
Sebastien Leempoel will describe the activities of the company and the opportunities for graduate students

12:00  – 13:00

Study Group meetings

13:00  –  14:00

Lunch

14:00  –  16:00

Study Group meetings

16:00  –  16:30

Afternoon tea

16:30  –  18:00

Thursday
Progress reports (10 minutes each)
Venue:   CAM Honours Computing Laboratory
Chair:     David Mason

  • Traffic lights or traffic circles
  • Warehouse stock layout
  • Predicting survival on the Titanic
  • Application of Euler-Bernoulli beam theory

18:00 – 19:00

Dinner

19:00

Free evening

Friday 10 January 2014

8:30 – 9:00

Study Group meetings
Planning the work of the day

9:00 – 10:30

Study Group meetings

10:30 – 11:00

Morning tea

11:00 – 13:00

Study Group meetings

13:00 –14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 16:00

Study Group meetings

16:00 – 16:30

Afternoon tea

16:30 – 18:00

Study Group meetings

18:00 – 19:00

Dinner

19:00

Free evening

Saturday 11 January 2014

8:30 – 9:00

Study Group meetings
Planning the work of the day

9:00 – 10:30

Study Group meetings

10:00 – 11:00

Morning tea

11:00 – 13:00

Study Group meetings
Preparation of presentations

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Study Group meetings
Preparation of presentations
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15:00 – 16:30

Formal presentations of results (30 minutes)
Chair: David Mason

  • Traffic lights or traffic circles
  • Warehouse stock layout
  • Predicting survival on the Titanic
  • Application of Euler-Bernoulli beam theory

16:00 – 16:30

Afternoon tea

16:30 – 18:00

Formal presentations of results (continued)
Closing

18:00 – 19:00

Dinner

19:00

Free evening

 

 

Sunday 12 January 2014

Free day

Arrival of MISG participants

 

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