SIAM UKIE Annual Meeting 2025

Friday 11th April

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

The 20th SIAM UKIE Annual Meeting will take place on April 11th, 2025, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Didcot. The event is hosted by the Computational Mathematics Group from STFC's Scientific Computing Department. All are very welcome to attend but registration is mandatory.

Invited speakers

Registration

All are welcome, and there is no registration fee for attendance, but registration is mandatory - registration DEADLINE: 31 March 2025. Please register using this registration form.
Please bring a valid ID (BRP, Passport, Driving Licence, etc) to allow you onto the RAL site.
 
We will go out to Didcot for dinner in the early evening. Attendees will pay for their meal. Please indicate on the form whether or not you'd like to join us when registering so we have a rough idea of the numbers.
 

Student Travel Award

If you are a student, you can apply for travel funding using the registration form - application DEADLINE: 3rd March 2025. The Section Secretary will contact those who apply.

Location

The postcode for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is OX11 0QX.

The nearest train station is Didcot, and the Thames travel X24/X34/X35 buses travel between Didcot Parkway Station and the Harwell Campus (~ 30 minute journey, with a bus every ~ 15 minutes). Taxis are also available at Didcot Parkway Station.

Detailed travel instructions are provided on the STFC "How to Find Us" page. The official website for the bus service can be used to plan your journey.

Talks will take place in the Pickavance Theatre building R22 on the main Rutherford Appleton Laboratory site. On arrival, please report to reception and they will direct you to the Pickavance Theatre. If driving, reception will direct you to a suitable place to park.

 

 

Hotels nearby

  • The Coseners House
    This hotel is in Abingdon.
    The X2 bus goes Oxford/Didcot to Abingdon.
    To go to RAL from Abingdon you need to take the 43 bus. The 43 bus has only two journeys in the morning from Abingdon to RAL and two journeys in the evening. 
  • Premier Inn Oxford South Didcot hotel
    This hotel is near Didcot.
    Take X2/X32/X36/33 from Didcot Parkway Railway to go to the hotel
    Take the ST1 bus from the nearby bus stop Turn (also called Milton Heights) to RAL and use the reverse direction on the way back
  • Ridgeway House
    This hotel is on the Harwell Campus, the campus that hosts RAL.
    Travel to RAL is explained here How to Find Us. Note that the ST1 bus service is limited to certain hours (last journey leaving Oxford is at 18:40). Please check the official website for more details.  
  • + many hotels in Oxford are also available. We recommend those being close to the High Street as they are closer to the ST1 bus stop.

Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge the support of our sponsors SIAM, the IMA, the Ada Lovelace Centre (ALC) and the Scientific Computing Department.

Local organising committee

Links

Provisional Schedule

09:00 Registration and refreshments  
10:00 Sven Leyffer (Argonne National Laboratory) Unifying nonlinearly constrained optimization
10:45 Coffee/Tea Break  
11:15 Claire Gormley (University College Dublin) Bayesian probabilistic partial least squares regression: predicting milk traits from spectral data
12:00 Poster Blitz  
12:20 Lunch + Poster session  
14:00 Business Meeting  
14:30  Patrick Farrell  (Oxford University) Designing conservative and accurately dissipative numerical integrators in time
15:15 Coffee/Tea Break + Tour  
16:00 Genoveva Burca (Diamond Light Source) Multiscale materials characterization using correlative neutron and x-ray imaging
17:30 Dinner TBC