NeST impact workshop - Relations to Industry

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On Thursday 22nd January NeST held a workshop on issues of impact of research and relations to Industry. Amongst the people who attended, there were researchers from several UK universities as well as people from the local industry.
 
The schedule was as follows:
10:00-12:30 Sharing of industrial collaboration experience and discussion about Algorithms UK
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Talk by Prof Rajeev Raman and discussion
15:00-15:30 Presentation by Dr Paul Gregory (Quantum of Value)
15:30-16:30 Presentation by Mr Michael Walker (AIMES Grid Services)
16:00-17:00 Talk by Dr Andy Dowsey, further discussion and conclusion
 
The external algorithms people who attended the event include:
- Dr Gregory Chockler (Royal Holloway)
- Prof Thomas Erlebach (Leicester)
- Prof Gregory Gutin (Royal Holloway)
- Prof Costas Iliopoulos (Kings College London)
- Dr George Mertzios (Durham)
- Prof Rajeev Raman (Leicester)
- Prof Iain Stewart (Durham)

Industrial representatives that attended:
-Quantum of Value: Dr Paul Gregory and Mr Josef Bacher
-AIMES Grid Services: Mr Michael Walker

The event was also attended by several members of the CTAG and ECCO groups of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Liverpool, as well as Prof Alan Marshall and Dr Andy Dowsey from the University's EEE department.