Pupils and teachers from local secondary schools will visit UCC on 29
March to experience some of the exciting advances that have been made
in informatics at the interface between mathematics and computer
science. Hosted by the HEA funded Boole Centre for Research in
Informatics, the Department of Computer Science and the School of
Mathematical Sciences the Annual Boole Informatics Invitational (BII)
takes place on Wednesday, 29 March 2006 at 2pm, G18, Kane Building.
The BII is an annual event where a selection of high achieving 4th, 5th
and 6th year students and their teachers from the Cork area are invited
to visit UCC. The purpose of the invitational is to raise the awareness
in the Cork secondary schools of the excitement in the field by
exposing teachers and students to leading edge researchers, software,
and hardware.
As part of the open day, an interactive demonstration will be given by
team members from the SFI-funded WebCom-G project. This project
involves building software to harness the power of computers
distributed across the world to share resources and to tackle large
computing problems. This demonstration will make use of a fun
application to allow students in the lab to randomly discover and to
talk to each other. The importance of this type of flexibility, at the
machine level, will be explained.
This year, special guest, Patrick Collison, the 2005 BT Young Scientist
winner will give a talk titled "How to win the Young Scientist". The
participants will also hear from world class scientists, Dr James
Gleeson and Dr John Morrison, and Computer Science PhD Student Brian
Clayton.
Speakers and a selection of academic staff will be on hand to talk with
the attendees. This year approximately 15 teachers and 60 students from
18 secondary schools in Cork will attend.
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