The following discipline-based CPD event will be of interest to staff in
mathematical and computing science departments in Scotland and the North of
England. Full details can be found at
http://www.ics.ltsn.ac.uk/events/maths/glasgow.html
We would be grateful if you would pass this message on within your institution.
Further workshops will be held in Belfast on 28 May and in England in the next
academic year.
Mathematics for Computing - a day workshop
University of Glasgow, 24 March 2004
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As many in higher education are aware, the inadequate mathematical preparation
of students entering higher education has become a serious problem over the
last 15 years. This so-called ‘maths problem’ has long been recognised by
engineering academics, but it is fast becoming an issue in computer science
too.
As a response to this the LTSN subject centre Information and Computing Science
and the LTSN Maths, Stats & OR Network are running a series of workshops on
mathematics for computing, the first of which is to be held at the University
of Glasgow on 24 of March; an event to which you are warmly invited.
This is an event which any academic who teaches mathematics to computer
scientists, or any computer science lecturer who finds themselves bewildered by
their students’ apparent lack of mathematical knowledge, will find useful.
Online booking, and a preliminary programme for the day are available at
http://www.ics.ltsn.ac.uk/events/maths/glasgow.html
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Pam Bishop, Assistant Director
LTSN Maths, Stats & OR Network
School of Mathematics and Statistics [log in to unmask]
The University of Birmingham tel 0121-414 4800
Birmingham B15 2TT fax 0121-414 3389
The Maths, Stats & OR Network is part of the Learning and Teaching
Support Network, which provides discipline-based support for
learning and teaching in UK universities.
More information can be found at http://ltsn.mathstore.ac.uk
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