Fourth Scottish Constraints Meeting
Friday the 8th of September
Conference Room 121
17 Lilybank Gardens
Department of Computing Science
University of Glasgow
Location map
Organiser: Patrick Prosser
PROGRAMME
Report of the Meeting
This is the fourth in the series of meetings in Scotland of researchers
and practitioners interested in constraints, funded by the UK Constraints
Network (ConsNet), which in turn is
funded by EPSRC. The meetings
are informal (with about 12 to 20 attendees), and the intention is to discuss ideas,
present ongoing
research, examine industrial problems, and ask questions (such as, who's going to host the
next meeting). There is a
mix of long talks and short talks, with plenty of time for discussion
and lunch!
We are particularly keen to involve people from industry who have
problems which may be amenable to constraint methods and researchers starting out in the area
of constraints.
So far, we have held three meetings. The
first was
held in St. Andrews
(chaired by Ian Gent), the
second in Edinburgh (
Josh Singer), and the
third in Aberdeen (Ken Brown)
Call for participation
Would you like to attend the next meeting? Would you care to make a presentation?
Presentations can be quite informal. You can present your research plans, describe a problem
that is interesting (and maybe relevant),
even completed research with results! Maybe you would like to report on the conferences
you have attended this year, or talk about funding opportunities and collaboration.
There are no proceedings, and nothing is published, so you can safely say what you want
(the audience is friendly).
At the previous meeting Ken Brown invited all attendees to make a 5 minute, single slide
presentation. These presentations gave a snap shot of the state of research in
Constraints in Scotland. There were also a number of longer research presentations,
some by experienced researchers, some by PhD students just starting off.
If you would like to attend, and would like to make a presentation, then please email
pat@dcs.gla.ac.uk for
more details.
Provisional Programme
An OHP and data projector will be available. If you wish to email me a powerPoint
presentation in advance I can put it on my lapTop for you.
The final session is intended to focus on the future. Everyone is invited
to give a micro presentation. Only one slide can be used, and you are allowed
no more than 5 minutes. Your presentation might be a snap shot of the
work you are doing or are about to do, something that you would like to do,
an interesting problem, a new language or toolkit, etc.
11:00 - 11:15 | Welcome & coffee |
11:15 - 11:45 | Barbara Smith: Modelling of a permutation problem |
11:45 - 12:15 | Patrick Prosser: Constraint programming and the stable marriage problem |
12:15 - 2:30 | Lunch: DiMaggio's, Ruthven Lane |
2:30 - 3:00 | Toby Walsh: Uncertainty in Constraint Satisfaction |
3:00 - 3:30 | Ian Gent: Symmetries in Constraint Programming |
3:30 - 3:45 | Coffee |
3:45 - 3:55 | Toby Walsh: Constraint Patterns |
4:00 - 4:30 | Micro presentations (all attendees) |
4:30 - 4:45 | Conclusion, next meeting, directions to pub |
Attendees
The people below have indicated that they will be attending. We need to know
numbers to organise lunch: if you are not on this list, but want to attend,
or you are on the list but will not be coming, please contact Patrick Prosser
(pat@dcs.gla.ac.uk).
- David Manlove
- Barbara Smith
- Ian Gent
- Toby Walsh
- Patrick Prosser
- Rob Irving
- Ken Brown
- Ian Miguel
- Josh Singer
- Isla Ross
- Richard Cooper
Location
The meeting will be held in the conference room (room 121) in the Department
of Computer Science, Lilybank Gardens.
You need to enter via house 17. The meeting room is on the 1st floor.
Lilybank Garden is marked in red on the
Location map. If you are coming by train then
use the underground and go to Hillhead. When you get out of the station
turn right, walk up Byres Road to the first junction,
turn right up Great George Street, and then take the second turn on your
right (that's Lilybank Gardens). Walk along to the last Victorian
terraced house, number 17. (So, that's a right, right, right. There is
a shorter route via Ashton lane, but any of you that know me will
realise that I am incapable of giving anything but simple directions).
If you are arriving at Glasgow via Queen Street Station you will find
a tube station beside it. If you arrive at Central station then
walk up to the tube at Queen Street Station.
If you really get lost, take a taxi to 17 Lilybank Gardens, just off
Byres Road.