UK Alexander von Humboldt Association Annual meeting
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Friday 19th September 2008One-Day WorkshopCentre for Scientific Computing, University of WarwickOrganiser: R.A. Römer (Warwick)Conference email: avh08 @ warwick.ac.ukThe meeting has been cancelled on Sep 17th, 2008 due to a low turnout of participants! Registered attendees should have received or will receive soon a cancellation email. We will endeavour to return the registration fees (minus handling fees) in the coming weeks. Please be patient, we never did this before! Any questions, pls use the conference email address.
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| Time | Title | Speaker |
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| 09:30-09:50 | Registration | |
| 09:50-10:00 | Welcome | |
| 10:00-10:15 | Career Mobility in the Late Ninth-Century West | Conrad Leyser (Manchester) |
| 10:15-10:45 | Transforming energies: laughter and love in contemporary German cinema | Seán Allan (Warwick) |
| 10:45-11:00 | Shelling out the facts on past European climate in a greenhouse world | Andrew L.A. Johnson (Derby) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Tea, coffee and biscuits | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Alternative Energies: Do they add up? | David J.C. MacKay (Cambridge) |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-14:30 | AvH Association AGM | |
| 14:30-14:45 | t.b.a. | Vladimir Terzija (Manchester) |
| 14:45-15:00 | Structure of Light Nuclei | Martin Freer (Birmingham) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea, coffee and biscuits | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Fusion: The way forward? | Ian Cook (Culham, UKAEA) |
Participants
Participation shall be subject to a conference fee and limited to about 40 participants. During the workshop, a light sandwich lunch as well as an afternoon tea shall be provided. Unfortunately, there will be no support for travel or accommodation.
Members (staff and students) of Warwick University can attend all talks for free. If you would also like to participate in the catering and lunch events, you need to pay the registration fee. In any case, please register if you would like to attend!
The symposium will start at 09:30am at the University of Warwick. Note that the university is located at the outskirts of Coventry and not in Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/ for travel details and http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/ for maps of the central campus. In case you come by car, parking is available for delegates at car park 15.
| Name | AvH | Affiliation | Contribution | £ |
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| Dr. Sean Allan | University of Warwick | delegate | ||
| Dr. Stephen H. Ashworth | ++ | University of East Anglia | delegate | + |
| Mr. Mohammed Reda Chellali | University of Oran Es-Senia | delegate | ||
| Prof. Martin Freer | ++ | University of Birmingham | delegate | |
| Geoff Glasby | + | University of Goettingen | delegate | |
| H. T. Hassan | ++ | University of Paisley | delegate | |
| Dr. Conrad Leyser | ++ | Worcester College, University of Oxford | delegate | |
| Prof. Roger Paulin | ++ | Trinity College, University of Cambridge | delegate | |
| Dr. Rudolf A Römer | + | University of Warwick | organizer | |
| Dr. Roy Ruddle | ++ | University of Leeds | delegate | |
| Dr. Erwin Verwichte | University of Warwick | delegate | ||
| Dr. Stephen Wells | University of Warwick | delegate | ||
| Dr. Peter Wilkinson | ++ | University of Nottingham | delegate | |
| Dr. James Wilton-Ely | ++ | Merton College, University of Oxford | delegate | + |
Venue
Registration will be held in the Physics Concourse and all talks will be held in the Physics Lecture Theatre (Room PLT of the Physics Department). This is building 44 of the Warwick central campus.
The workshop will start with the registration at 08:30 am at the University of Warwick. Note that the university is located at the outskirts of Coventry and not in Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/ for travel details and http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/ for maps of the central campus. In case you come by car, parking is available for delegates at car park 15.
