A report by Vice-Chancellor's Travel Prize Winner - Matthias Gläfke
Here's a report from a winner of the Vice-Chancellor's Travel Prize.
"The Vice-Chancellor's Travel Prize gave me the opportunity to attend the conference Innovations in Wave Modelling (InnoWave2012), held at the University of Nottingham in September 2012. Senior academics and research students from Engineering, Mathematics and Physics were joined by industry practitioners in the splendid setting of the university's leafy campus, and it was widely agreed that the attendees' diverse backgrounds and their presentations gave everybody the chance to obtain an insight into thus far unfamiliar topics. Personally, I particularly enjoyed the presentations on Boundary Element Methods, which I use in my own research project. I learnt a lot about approaches which are used in the Engineering community of which I had not been aware of so far. Vice versa, my own presentation, which was about Adaptive Time Domain Boundary Element Methods (TD-BEM) for Scattering Problems, was met with interest, and I received some interesting feedback on it that shall be valuable for my future research.
The organisers had arranged accommodation for all attendees at a student hall on campus, so that all meals were taken together, and there also was a small bar on site. We therefore had the chance to discuss not only in the short intervals after each presentation, but also in these informal settings, which further provided excellent opportunities to socialise.
Overall, it was a great pleasure to attend InnoWave2012, and I am very grateful for the Graduate School's generous support."
