Thursday 6th July: Early Career Workshop

Location: Lecture Room A (Ground Floor) for all talks and Maths Learning Centre (1st Floor) for registration and refreshments, Watson Building, University of Birmingham Edgbaston, B15 2TT

13.00 Arrival and lunch

13.55 Welcome - Dave Smith

14.00 Data assimilation - lecture - Matthew Juniper

Suggested pre-reading: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 27, and 28 of David MacKay's book 'Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms', Cambridge University Press, ( https://www.inference.org.uk/itprnn/book.pdf ). Ideally, participants would have attempted exercises 28.1 and 28.2 in that book.

14.45 Data assimilation - Q&A - Matthew Juniper

15.00 Refreshments

15.20 Data assimilation - Matlab practical - Matthew Juniper

16.20 comfort break

16.30 Scientific careers in the public sector - a talk by Atticus Hall-McNair, DSTL

17.00 (In person only) Random access flash talks - 2 minutes per attendee, single slide per speaker to appear in random order!

17.30 Drinks in the Bratby Bar

19.30 Dinner at Ming Moon Restaurant, 16 Hurst Street, Birmingham City Centre, B5 4BN

Please note that participants other than invited speakers are asked to cover their own costs for evening drinks and dinner (ideally, payment of £24.20 to the organiser via Paypal prior to the meal - details to be circulated to registered participants).

Friday 7th July: All Career Stages Meeting

Location: Lecture Room A (Ground Floor) for all talks and Maths Learning Centre (1st Floor) for registration and refreshments, Watson Building, University of Birmingham Edgbaston, B15 2TT

Registration and coffee from 8.45

9.10 Welcome - Dave Smith

Session 1 - chaired by Dave Smith

9.15 Julia Yeomans - Modelling the dynamics of confluent cell layers

9.40 Matt Rogers - Leishmania transmission from phlebotomine sand flies

10.05 Eleanor Doman - Modelling blood flow in the maternal placental tissue informed by microfluidic experiments 

10.30 Coffee and discussion

Session 2 - chaired by Laurence Wilson

10.50 Paulo Arratia - Life in complex flows

11.15 Adam Cieplinksi - Free living stages of Schistosoma parasites

11.40 Sam Charlton - Mapping structure–function relationships in bacterial biofilms reveals a rheological phase transition 

12.00 Group photo in front of the Watson Building

12.15 Lunch

Session 3 - chaired by Smitha Maretvadakethope

13.15 Weida Liao - Theoretical model of confined thermoviscous flows for artificial cytoplasmic streaming 

13.35 Mohit Dalwadi - Emergent 3D dynamics of rapidly spinning chiral particles in shear flow

14.00 Rachel Bennett - Analytical framework for coordination of metachronal cilia

14.25 Luc Zorrilla - Internal coupling is sufficient to synchronize C. Reinhardtii eukaryotic flagella

14.45 Tea break and informal discussions

Session 4 - chaired by Marco Polin

15.15 Group discussion: future SIG activities and funding

15.45 Kirsty Wan - From sea cells to sea shells

16.10 Smitha Maretvadakethope - The interplay between bulk flow and boundary conditions on the distribution of micro-swimmers in channel flow 

16.30 Herbert Huppert - Chemical gardens:  the origin of life?

16.55 Wrap-up

(Those not immediately travelling home are then likely to head for informal drinks in the Bratby Bar followed by dinner; all participants would need to cover their own costs.)