Science Meets Humanities Event
- Time:
- 09:30 - 13:00
- Date:
- 23 January 2018
- Venue:
- Lecture Theatre B (65/1201) Avenue Campus University of Southampton
For more information regarding this event, please telephone Marie Cross on 023 80598823 or email M.Cross@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Applications of scientific and quantitative methods in the humanities.
You are all invited to this very special event at Avenue Campus.
Programme
09:30
Coffee and Welcome
09:45
Anne Curry (History), Tim Sluckin (Mathematical Sciences)
Introduction
09:55
James Burridge (Mathematics, University of Portsmouth)
Macroscopic spatial models of language, history and evolution
10:15
Alex May (IT Innovation, ECS)
Applications of machine learning in historical linguistics
10:35
Markus Brede (ECS)
Population dynamical models of human societal collapse
10:55
Break
11:10
Daniel Brown (English)
The poetry and writings of James Clerk Maxwell
11:30
David Wheatley (Archaeology)
The visual structure of historic and archaeological landscapes
11:50
Alistair Pike (Archaeology)
Applications of geochemistry in archaeology
12:10
Tomas Polcar (Tribology)
Modern engineering approaches to tackle open historical questions
12:30
Discussion
13:00
Close