Name: ScotDIST annual research conference 2018
Start: 2018-08-01T10:15:00+01:00
End: 2018-08-01T17:30:00+01:00
Location: School of Physics & Astronomy, Kelvin Building, U of Glasgow

ScotDIST annual research conference 2018

Wednesday 1 August 2018 - 10:15

Monday 30 July 2018
Tuesday 31 July 2018
Wednesday 1 August 2018

10:15 Arrival and coffee
Arrival and coffee
10:15 - 11:00
Room: LT312
11:00 Studentship presentations
Studentship presentations
11:00 - 12:00
Room: LT312
Contributions

11:00 Globular Clusters and Dwarf Galaxies - David Behrendt (University of Edinburgh)

11:12 Search for doubly charmed baryon Xicc+ in LHCb - Dana Bobulska (University of Glasgow)

11:24 Solar Flare Signatures - Teri Love (University of St Andrews)

11:36 Measures of Chaos in Homogeneous Isotopic Turbulence - Daniel Clark (University of Edinburgh)

11:48 Optimal strategies for detecting and classifying kilonovae as the EM counterpart of gravitational wave transient sources - Laurence Datrier (University of Glasgow)
12:00 Industry talk: Digital Systems Engineering + questions - William Bell (Frazer Nash Consultancy)
Industry talk: Digital Systems Engineering + questions
- William Bell (Frazer Nash Consultancy)
12:00 - 12:30
Room: LT312
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: LT312
13:30 Studentship presentations
Studentship presentations
13:30 - 14:30
Room: LT312
Contributions

13:30 High Level Trigger Monitoring for the LHCb Experiment - Stefano Petrucci (University of Edinburgh)

13:42 Learning to correct for atmospheric seeing in solar flare observations - John Armstrong (University of Glasgow)

13:54 Bayesian approaches to modelling microlensing events - Fran Bartolic (University of St Andrews)

14:06 Generative Adversarial Networks for LIGO Parameter Estimation - Hunter Gabbard (University of Glasgow)

14:18 Data Analysis in Hadron Physics - Adam Thornton (University of Edinburgh)
14:30 Industry talk: Interest Rate Modelling + questions - Andrew Tadrowski (Moody's Analytics)
Industry talk: Interest Rate Modelling + questions
- Andrew Tadrowski (Moody's Analytics)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: LT312
15:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: LT312
15:30 Studentship presentations
Studentship presentations
15:30 - 16:18
Room: LT312
Contributions

15:30 Investigating the Distribution of Magnetic Features on the Solar Photosphere - Callan Noble (University of St Andrews)

15:42 Constraining New Physics Using Top Quark Effective Field Theory - Stephen Brown (University of Glasgow)

15:54 Taranis: GPU-Accelerated Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations - Gennaro Di Pietro (University of Edinburgh)

16:06 Applying machine learning to the LSST event stream - Amanda Ibsen (University of Edinburgh)
16:15 Discussion on "Is AI just a black box?"
Discussion on "Is AI just a black box?"
16:15 - 17:00
Room: LT312

17:00 Leave / Voyage to pubs on Byres Road
Leave / Voyage to pubs on Byres Road
17:00 - 17:30
Room: LT312