MIMS New Directions Workshops

MIMS is marking its first year in the new Alan Turing Building by holding a series of workshops during 2008 organized by members of the School of Mathematics. These New Directions workshops showcase the broad spectrum of research in the School and some of the current interdisciplinary collaborations.

• New Directions in Functions of Matrices, 15-16 May 2008. Organizer: Nick Higham.
• New Directions in Statistics and Biostatistics: Manchester-Tampere Workshop, 29-30 May 2008. Organizer: Jianxin Pan.
• New Directions in Analytical and Numerical Methods for Forward and Inverse Wave Scattering, 23-24 June 2008. Organizers: Timo Betcke, Wagner Muniz and Will Parnell.
• New Directions in Tomographic Image Reconstruction, 30 June-1 July 2008. Organizers: Marta Betcke, Bill Lionheart, Wagner Muniz and Philip Withers (School of Materials).
• New Directions in Toric Topology, 4-5 July 2008. Organizers Nige Ray, Victor Buchstaber and Jelena Grbic.
• New Directions in Noncommutative Geometry, 10-11 July 2008. Organizers: Roger Plymen, Jacek Brodzki (University of Southampton).
• New Directions in Ergodic Theory: Probabilistic Aspects of Skew-Product Dynamics, 10-11 September, 2008. Organizer: Charles Walkden.
• New Directions in Philosophy of Mathematics, 4 October 2008. Organizers: Alexandre Borovik, David Corfield (University of Kent).
• New Directions in Statistics with Industry, 16 September 2008. Organizers: Alex Donev and Jinaxin Pan.
• New Directions in Wildland Fire Behaviour and its Implications, 2009 (part of the FIRES seminars and workshops). Organizers: John Dold, Julia McMorrow (School of Geography), Jonathan Aylen (Manchester Business School).