Modelling social interactions and environments: advanced techniques for the Arts and Social Sciences

This half-day workshop for researchers in the arts and social sciences will highlight some of the opportunities now available through the use of networks and advanced digital technologies for research.

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This half-day workshop for researchers in the arts and social sciences will highlight some of the opportunities now available through the use of networks and advanced digital technologies for research.  Sponsored by Jisc, in collaboration with the training team at the National e-Science Centre (NeSC), it is one of a series of roadshow events for researchers and research support staff who are not currently using e-research tools or e-infrastructure services but would like to know how to get started.

The roadshow, which is coordinated by the Information Services Directorate, will provide an interdisciplinary perspective illustrated by examples drawn mainly from the computing and social sciences. Some of the practical methods researchers can use for modelling real world social situations will be presented.
 
Speakers include Dr David Fergusson, Deputy Director, Training, Outreach and Education, the National e-Science Centre and researchers at UEA who are working on projects to model historic buildings, identify language through computer lip-reading, and use HPC for applied economics. Dr Andy Turner from the National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation at the University of Leeds will present via the Access Grid.

If you are unable to get to Norwich, you can join the event via Access Grid.

Draft programme

Time
Activity

09.30 - 10.00
Registration and Coffee

10.00 - 10.10
Welcome
Dr David Fergusson, Deputy Director, Training, Outreach and Education, National e-Science Centre

10.10 - 10.40
Making use of the UK's advanced computing services for research - an overview
Dr David Fergusson

10.40 - 11.10
Using ESCluster for applied research in Economics
Dr Sasha Talavera, School of Economics, University of East Anglia

11.10 - 11.40
Spoken language identification using computer lip-reading
Jacob Newman, School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia

11.40 - 11.55
Coffee break

11.55 - 12.25
Social Simulation: A Geographical Agent Based Modelling Approach with Individual Human Agents
Dr Andy Turner, University of Leeds

12.25 - 12.55
Text mining of 19th century newspapers using a campus grid: a case study in high throughput computing in humanities research
Dr Gerhard Brey, King’s College, London

12.55 - 13.00
Close
Dr David Fergusson

13.00 - 14.00
Lunch – demonstration by the Urban Modelling Group on Virtual Past
Prof Andy Day, School of Computing Sciences and Mr John Williams, School of History, University of East Anglia