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The Centre arranges the M&S colloquia with the intention of generating a perspective on current real-life applications of modeling and simulation as a methodology. These are presented by practising experts from industrial or academic research.
Details about our past colloquia and seminars are available in this sortable archive. Whenever possible, we try to make the presentation material of a colloquium available via our website.
The purpose of the M&S colloquia is twofold:
• These colloquia form a component of our
academic programmes, expected to
illustrate the art of (mathematical) modeling in practice through real-life examples and applications.
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These colloquia are intended to
generate a perspective on, and increase awareness about,
modeling and simulation as a scientific methodology.
The way we envision it, such a perspective could be generated in two distinct ways:
1 • By exposing the audience to a variety of applications and examples from diverse areas of science and technology that employ modeling and simulation as a methodology, and by imparting a clear understanding, at an appropriate level of detail or description, of
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the underlying scientific or technological system or problem, and
the complexities in it;
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the modeling decisions that went into building an appropriate
mathematical model for this system or problem;
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the (mathematical) complexity of this model, and possible ways of
extracting useful information from the model;
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the need to resort to computation and simulation, and the
complexities involved therein;
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what is learnt about the system or problem through modeling and
simulation, and how well does the model corroborate with real life.
2 • By presenting an overview, at an appropriate level of detail or description that depends on the audience, of one or more open problems in a field where modeling and simulation methodologies are likely to help.
These colloquia are usually biased towards the pedagogic end of the spectrum, and do not assume—generally—any domain-specific expertise on part of the audience. As such, the standard format of a one-hour presentation is usually not adequate. Indeed, through trial and error, we have settled down on a format that consists of two 45-minute sessions separated by a tea break that provides an informal setting for interaction of the audience with the speaker (however, the format of a colloquium is entirely left to the speaker's convenience).