7^TH MAY 2014 at the UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

Full Programme

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Summarised Programme

09:00

Registration opens

Tea & coffee

09:25

Opening
remarks

09:30

Complex systems, complex models and complex understanding: some issues to think about

Tim Benton (University of Leeds, UK Champion for Global Food Security)

10:10

Food Security: Representing Reality in an Agent-Based Model of Malawian Small Holders (talk slides)

Samantha Dobbie (University of Southampton)

10:30

Close Contact Fluctuations: Bonding Time and Sustenance Length in T cell Immunological Synapse (talk slides)

Amit Chattopadhyay (Aston University)

10:50

Tea & coffee

Posters on display

11:20

Development of a Resource Secure City using the City Analysis Methodology: the Liveable Cities approach to addressing this challenge over the next 50 years (talk slides)

Susan Lee (University of Birmingham)

11:40

Engineering Transparent Simulations for Science (talk slides)

Paul Andrews (University of York)

12:20

Buffet lunch

Posters on display

13:20

Mr Darcy was good enough for me - pragmatism and prediction in groundwater science (talk slides)

Alan Herbert (University of Birmingham)

14:00

A data-driven approach for blood glucose modelling

Yan Zhang (University of Warwick)

14:20

Microbiology's N-body problem: interspecies metabolite transfer within spatially distributed populations (talk slides)

Robert Clegg (University of Birmingham)

14:40

Tea & coffee

Posters on display

15:10

Modeling Complexity: A Case-Based, Mixed-Methods Density Approach (talk slides)

Brian Castellani (Kent State University, USA)

15:50

Discussion panel

Panellists: Paul Andrews, Alan Herbert, Brian Castellani, Aaron Sloman

16:50

Closing
remarks

17:00

Tea & coffee

Posters on display