HoDoMS
Heads of Departments of Mathematical Sciences in the UK
Annual Conference, 4th-5th April 2002
University of Birmingham Conference Park
Provisional Programme
Thursday, 4th April
- 12.30 pm
- Enrolment (Lucas House)
Lunch
- 2.00 pm
- The government vision for school mathematics over the next
ten years - what should we prepare for?
Stephen Timms MP (Minister of State for School Standards)
- 3.00 pm
- Recent developments in learning and teaching
Professor John Blake, Professor Neville Davies and Dr Joe
Kyle (Learning, Teaching & Support Network for
Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research)
- 3.45 pm
- Tea/coffee
- 4.15 pm
- Curriculum 2000 and the Mathematical Sciences
Dr Jack Abramsky (Qualifications
and Curriculum Authority)
- 5.00 pm
- Discussion on issues around Council for the Mathematical Sciences,
QAA, the National Qualifications Framework and the benchmark, and
MMath/MSc
Led by the Chair
- 5.45 pm
- HODOMS Annual General Meeting
- 7.30 pm
- Dinner
Friday 5th April
- 9.00 am
- Mathematical modelling in the post-genomic era
Dr Olaf Wolkenhauer
(University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology)
- 10.00 am
- The aims and activities of the Smith Institute and Faraday
Partnerships
Dr Robert Leese
(Director, Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering)
- 11.00 am
- Tea/coffee
- 11.30 am
- Recent issues at the EPSRC
Professor John O'Reilly FREng
(Chief Executive, EPSRC)
- 12.30 pm
- Lunch
- 2.00 pm
- Committee Meeting
Enquiries about the HODOMS Conference should be addressed
to:
Dr Neil Challis (HODOMS Secretary), Sheffield Hallam
University,
e-mail n.challis@shu.ac.uk,
tel. 0114 225 3269,
or
Prof. Charles Goldie (HODOMS Chair), University of
Sussex,
e-mail C.M.Goldie@sussex.ac.uk,
tel. 07876 565395.
Information about the University of Birmingham Conference Park, along
with travel advice and a map, are available at
http://www.bham.ac.uk/conferences.