The Burn 2024

This is a schedule for the St Andrews Mathematics and Statistics PhD student trip to the Burn. The trip runs from Friday 26th April to Sunday 28th April.

Day 1: Friday 26th April

1.30pm: Coach leaves St Andrews

2pm: Coach leaves Dundee

2.45pm: Coach arrives at the Burn

3pm: Afternoon tea

4pm: Talk session 1

• Luke Derry: C^*-algebras and a noncommutative box dimension
• Aimee Bebbington: Intracellular pulsatile actomyosin dynamics are sensitive to cell shape and polarity
• Peiran Wu: Formalising mathematics with Lean

5pm Piscopia workshop on imposter syndrome

6.30pm: Dinner

7.15pm: Quiz

8.30pm: Free time

Day 2: Saturday 27th April

9am: Breakfast

9.30am: Talk session 2

• Coen del Valle: Balancing graphs and integer matrices
• Victoria Ironmonger: Posets of combinatorial structures
• Alex Rutar: Lagrange multipliers without differentiability
• Jack Southgate: Minimal face numbers for volume rigidity

10.30am: Morning coffee

10:45am: Talk on Writing your thesis by Ashley Clayton

12 noon: Lunch, followed by free time

6.30pm: Dinner, followed by free time

Day 3: Sunday 28th April

9am: Breakfast

9.30am: Talk session 3 (stats)

• Rachel Drake: Enhancing Absence Inference in Occupancy Modelling of Citizen Science Data
• Mia Goldman: Grey seal pup production estimation: A Bayesian state-space approach
• Louis Backstrom: Hidden observer preferences drive biases in semi-structured citizen science databases
• Amber Cowans: Sample size considerations for detecting species co-occurrence with multispecies occupancy models

11am: Morning coffee, followed by free time

1pm: Lunch

2pm: Depart the Burn