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Informatics Jamboree 2003 Programme

21 - 23 May
Psychology Lecture Theatre F21
7 George Square

Unless otherwise specified, all events take place at the above location. Lunches and refreshments will be served in the Concourse.

Wednesday, 21 May
17:15	Professor Frank Kelly	Fairness of Internet Protocols	George Square Lecture Theatre
18:15	Reception
Thursday, 22 May
Chair:
09:30	Dr Marielle Lange	How a study of the grapheme-phoneme relations in English disyllabic words challenges theories of print-to-sound conversion derived from the properties of monosyllabic words
10:30	Coffee break
11:00	New research students	Rapid fire talks
11:30	New research students	Rapid fire talks
12:30	Lunch & Posters
14:00	Professor Frank Kelly	Brownian models of Internet congestion
14:45	Professor Lillian Lee	Knowledge-lean Approaches to Statistical Natural Language Processing
15:45	Coffee break
16:00	Professor Peter Ghazal Director, GTI	Integrative Genomics
Friday, 23 May
Chair:
09:30	Professor Ian Sommerville	Empirical Software Engineering: Reflections on an Industrial Experiment in Software Process Improvement
10:30	Coffee break
11:00	Dr Kousha Etessami	Model checking recursive game graphs using dataflow equation
11:45	Dr Frank Keller	Probabilistic Parsing for New Languages and Annotation Schemes
12:30	Lunch & Posters
14:00	Mark van Rossum	Neuroinformatics at Edinburgh
14:45	Professor Lillian Lee	The Iterative Residual Rescaling algorithm: An analysis and generalization of Latent Semantic Indexing
15:30	Coffe break
16:00	Dr Mark Parsons	The Grid: A Brief History of the Future
17:00	Poster Judges	Presentation of prizes for the Poster Competition
19:30	Ceilidh	Music by:Hugh MacDiarmid's Haircut	Debating Hall, Teviot Row, 13 Bristo Square
23:00	The End

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