Talk 2: Research Opportunities and Challenges in Big Data
Speaker: Haruna Isah
Date: 11/06/2015
Time: 5.00pm
Venue: Horton D01.25
Title: Research Opportunities and Challenges in Big Data-BigDat2015 Lessons
- The 15 minutes presentation will go as follows;
- First 5 minutes: lessons learnt during BigDat2015 winter school
- Next 5 minutes: Overview of the presenter’s PhD work
- Last 5 minutes: questions, collaborative opportunities and links to resources
Talk 1: Agent-based modelling and its role in interdisciplinary research
Speaker: Dr Marian Kiran
Date: 28/05/2015
Title: Agent-based modelling and its role in interdisciplinary research
- The presenter talked about her experiences as a software engineer in developing agent-based models in a variety of disciplines.
- She also introduced concepts of ABMs and how they are used with case studies in biology and economics.
- She concluded by addressing some limitations of previous approaches and how her current work is addressing these.
womENcourage 2015
“My first poster was in the previous edition! It was a great experience.”
Chapter Proposed Programmes
We are currently planning several activities within and outside the University and in collaboration with other agencies and organisations:
- mentorship program
–pair up students at Bradford University with mentors (both academic and industrial)
- career fairs
–exposition for employers and recruiters to come to Bradford and meet with prospective job seekers and interns.
- distinguished speakers program
–an outreach program that brings speakers from academia, industry, and gov’t to give presentations
- student research competitions
- …..
Chapter Operations
The Chapter operations are in line with ACM Bylaws and exclusively for educational and scientific purposes to promote:
- an increased knowledge of and greater interest in the science, design, development, construction, languages, management and applications of modern computing
- greater interest in computing and its applications
- a means of communication between persons having an interest in computing