ICMS Newsletter

ICMS FACILITIES

Conference Rooms

In 1994 ICMS moved its headquarters to the Georgian house where James Clerk Maxwell was born. The drawing rooms have been converted into two conference rooms which seat 40-60 people.

Frequent research programmes are held regularly by ICMS on a variety of applications of mathematics to science, industry, commerce and medicine. Past programmes include: Novel Mathematical Methods in Petroleum Science, Algebraic Graph Theory, Quantitative Approaches to Managing Risk, Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, Statistics and Neural Networks, Mathematics in Medicine, Harmonic Analysis.

The James Clerk Maxwell Foundation also use the house to hold occasional events relating to Maxwell and to display a unique collection of rare books and papers relating to his work.

Computer Laboratories

The upper floor of the house provides space for computer laboratories. Facilities include four colour HP UNIX workstations, five colour X-terminals, postscript printer, CD ROM and DAT tape drive. All the workstations are connected to the INTERNET through a local area network.

The machines run Maple, Tex/LaTex, Pascal and C compilers, and Fortran.

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Chris Eilbeck / Heriot-Watt University/ chris@ma.hw.ac.uk