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 Loading presentations
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 Loading presentations
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

Graduate Student Workshop Programme

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