Third Annual
Stokes Modelling Workshop
For Undergraduate Students

NUI Galway
June 13th-16th, 2016

Contact: paul.greaney@nuigalway.ie.

       

UPDATE 06/07/2016: The workshop was recently featured on the SIAM-UKIE Blog.

UPDATE 13/06/2016: Files for the Matlab and Maple sessions are available here.

UPDATE 09/06/2016: The information/schedule/problems for the workshop are now available here.

The School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics at NUI Galway hosted a four day undergraduate modelling workshop from June 13th to 16th. The format was loosely based on the Mathematical Contest in Modelling, with training and small group study sessions provided by lecturers and postgraduate students of the School of Mathematics.

General queries relating to the workshop should be directed to paul.greaney@nuigalway.ie.

The poster announcing the workshop is also available, as are the webpages of the 2014 and 2015 workshops.

Problems & Presentations

The problem statements are available here. The results from each group are outlined in their slides given below.

Problem 1: Spread of Infectious Diseases in Human Populations.
Group members: Padraic Flood, Aoife Hill, Damian O'Connor, Bram Siebert, Andrew Whelan.

Problem 2: Playing with Elasticity.
Group members: David Colson, Seán Hehir, Róisín Hill, Brian Regan.

Problem 3: Modelling Fort McMurray.
Group members: Jack Collins, Patrick Fleming, Cormac Murphy, Ashley Sheil.

Problem 4: Who's the Bas?
Group members: John Cormican, John McFadden, Claire Moran, Szymon Urbas.

LAST YEAR: WHAT THE STUDENTS THOUGHT

"A great chance to meet students from other courses and other colleges. It was interesting to see their approaches to the problem and to learn from them. It was also great to chat to the mentor as he taught us a lot."

"Interesting and relevant range of projects available, with variety of skills/abilities catered for."

"It offered an opportunity to study problems in a relatively independent environment."

"The free lunch and coffee were really appreciated! The best part was the opportunity to do the problems our own way with programming etc, playing to our own skill set."

Organising Committee

Michel Destrade, Paul Greaney, Niall Madden, Robert Mangan, Petri Piiroinen, Eoghan Staunton, Michael Welby