There will be various events throughout the year which we shall inform you of.
We organise a number of Open days and Visit days throughout the year as well as International Conferences and Seminars. Our next Open day dates are:
EASE 2009 is on Monday April 20th and Tuesday April 21st 2009 at Durham University - Department of Computer Science.
The Preliminary Call for Papers is now open.
For any other correspondence, please contact:
EASE Administrator,
School of Computing and Mathematics,
Keele University,
Staffordshire,
ST5 5BG,
United Kingdom
Tel:+44 (0)1782 583413
Fax: +44 (0)1782 713082
E-mail: ease@cs.keele.ac.uk
The event was a resounding success, as was the second European Postgraduate Fluid Dynamics Conference which was held at Keele University between Monday 21st July and Wednesday 23rd July 2008. We had three interesting plenary lectures from Professors Herbert Huppert, Patrick Huerre and Oliver Jensen, along with 29 student presentations and 9 student posters, the standard of which were excellent.
The award for the best presentation was won by Margrit Klitz, for her talk entitled Three-Dimensional Simulation of Two-Phase Flow Problems, and the award for best poster was won by Igor Chernyavsky for A Theoretical Analysis of Blood Flow and Nutrient Transport in the Human Placentone.
We thank everyone who came and hope to see you all at next year's conference.
We are currently looking for a team of postgraduates to host the EPFDC in 2009. Please contact us via email at contact@epfdc.org.uk if you are interested.
This Learning Community page gathers together some of the on-line materials that we have used to deliver: Gifted & Talented; public understanding of science; and widening-participation, activity days in Mathematics, Computer Science and ICT. The resources can be accessed by clicking on the links opposite and can be used by anyone. However, they are mainly targeted towards participants interested in experimenting further once they have returned back to school/college.
Elasticity (or solid mechanics in a broader sense) is traditionally viewed as a difficult subject and nowadays very few mathematics departments are offering a course on Elasticity or Solid Mechanics. Thus, most of the new PhD students in applied mathematics in the UK do not even have a basic knowledge of the elasticity theory, let alone a good understanding of the more advanced methods that are usually only available in research papers or monographs. However, there is now an increasing demand for a good understanding of linear and nonlinear elasticity due to its applications in biomechanics, industrial mathematics, and material science.
The proposed course is aimed at research students in applied mathematics who may need to use elasticity theory, in one way or another, in their research. It will seek to provide students with a unified derivation of nonlinear elasticity theory with the linear theory derived as a special case and to introduce, with minimal pre-requisites, a number of major methods and ideas that students may incorporate in their current or future research work. The attendees are expected to be familiar with the theory of partial differential equations, matrix algebra and tensor notation. Previous knowledge in elasticity and tensor algebra is useful but not essential.
The course will be organized around the following three lecture courses, each course consisting of 6 lectures and two example classes.
2.1 Introduction to nonlinear elasticity theory
(Prof. R.W. Ogden FRS, Glasgow University)
Prof. Ogden FRS is the author of Non-linear Elastic Deformations, a major reference book for the subject, and has taught the subject in various advanced schools. Prof. Ogden will present a concise derivation of the basic theory of nonlinear elasticity and then develop the linear elasticity theory as a special case. A few example problems with possible biomechanical applications will be solved to illustrate the theories.
2.2 Asymptotic models of solids with cracks and small inclusions
(Prof. A.B. Movchan, Liverpool University)
Singular perturbation methods are very effective methods for obtaining analytical solutions to problems which cannot be solved exactly. They are major tools in the tool box of applied mathematicians. This course will be given by Prof. Movchan, a leading expert in the area who has authored a number of text books and research monographs. He will first teach the fundamentals of the method of matched asymptotic expansions and then apply the technique to a selection of boundary value problems of linear elasticity defined on domains with regularly or singularly perturbed boundaries, including cracks, voids and inclusions. In particular, he will define dipole tensors and show how they can be used in determining the effective properties of dilute composites.
2.3 Stroh formulation and its application to linear and nonlinear elasticity
(Prof. Y.B. Fu, Keele University)
In linear and nonlinear elasticity, displacement and traction are natural conjugate variables. Stroh formulation is essentially a Hamiltonian formulation in which the governing equations for static or steady wave problems are rewritten as a dynamical system with one spatial variable viewed as a time-like variable. This formulation has proven to be extremely successful in solving boundary-value problems and the surface-wave problem when the material involved is generally anisotropic. Unfortunately, this formulation and the associated body of results are not as widely known as they should be. This course will be given by Prof. Fu who has recently made novel contributions which shed new light on the existing results and enable extensions of the classical Stroh fomulation to other situations. He will first give a concise exposition of the Stroh formulation and then illustrate how a number of problems involving generally anisotropic materials or generally pre-stressed isotropic materials can be solved elegantly. In particular, he will discuss the surface impedance matrix and its various applications, including its relation to various Green’s functions.
All research students registered at a UK university will be charged a registration fee of £100 (in the case of EPSRC funded research students, this fee should be paid by their departments from their DTA, for non-EPSRC research students, their department might be prepared to pay the fee). Overseas students, Postdocs and those working in industry must pay the full subsistence costs of £358, plus a registration fee of £250, making a total of £608 for this course. All participants must pay their own travel costs (for EPSRC funded students, this should be covered by their DTA). Applications should be made using the registration form available on the Society's website at: www.lms.ac.uk/activities/rmc/sc/41poster.html Numbers will be limited and those interested are advised to make an early application. The closing date for applications is Friday 30 May. All applicants will be contacted by the London Mathematical Society approximately one week after this deadline.
The School hosts a number of seminars each year, with previous topics ranging from Artificial Systems to Homelessness
Seminar Organiser - Dr. Mahmood Niazi
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Topic/Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Oct | 2-3PM | CR 114 | Professor Hong Zhu (Oxford Brookes) | A Formal Descriptive Semantics in First Order Logic and Its Applications |
| 22 Oct | 2-3PM | CR 114 | Rogério de Lemos (Kent) | Architecting Software Fault Tolerance using Abstractions |
| 29 Oct | 2-3PM | CR 114 | Steve Counsell (Brunel University) | Refactoring:- some empirical studies, potential and possible challenges |
| 19 Nov | 2:15-3:15PM | CR 114 | Ray Dawson (Loughborough University) | Knowledge Management Implementation Problems and How to Overcome Them |
Seminar Organiser - Prof. Victor Shrira
