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Day 1 – Tuesday 23rd April
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 09:30 | Coffees, Networking and Posters (Atrium) | |
| 10:00 | Day 1 Welcome (G35) | |
| 10:10 | Carol Sandys Head of ARC | BEAR State of the Union |
| 10:30 | Keynote: Neil Ashton | How HPC, ML and Cloud Computing are helping to move towards a digital design process for the automotive and aerospace industries |
| 11:10 | Coffee Break (Atrium) | |
| Session 1: CFD Session (G35) | ||
| 11:30 | Chandan Bose | CFD / OpenFOAM User Group |
| 11:50 | Roberto Hart-Villamil | On the AI driven geometry optimisation of a stirred tank CFD model in laminar flow |
| 12:10 | Xue Lian | Coupled SPH-DEM method for simulating coarse food particles in a non-Newtonian conveying fluid |
| 12:30 | Lunch Time (Atrium) | |
| 1:00 | Poster Session (Atrium) | |
| Session 2: Short Presentations (G35) | ||
| 14:00 | Kamilla Kopec-Harding | R User Group |
| 14:10 | Kamilla Kopec-Harding | Research Data Science Group |
| 14:20 | Lu Hai | FEM / Abaqus User Group |
| 14:30 | Josephine Bates | Using data analytics to break down outcome measures in liaison psychiatry |
| 14:40 | William Peace | Investigation of high gas flow rates on hydrodynamics in two phase gas-liquid stirred tanks using Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) |
| END |
Day 2 – Wednesday 24th April
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 09:30 | Coffees, Networking and Posters (Atrium) | |
| 10:00 | Day 2 Welcome (G35) | |
| Session 3: DEM Session (G35) | ||
| 10:10 | Keynote : Jack Sykes | EvoPhase – A University of Birmingham Spin-Out |
| 10:50 | Dominik Werner | Optimising Mixing Processes with DEM: From Problem Identification to Solution |
| 11:40 | Daniel Rhymer | A world of pure imagination? Understanding the dynamics of Vertical Stirred Mills within chocolate processing. |
| 12:00 | Lunch Time + Posters (Atrium) | |
| 13:00 | Keynote : Dr Kit Windows-Yule | AI-based optimisation of industrial processes and process equipment |
| Session 4: Biological Presentations (G35) | ||
| 13:40 | Andrew Quinn | CHBH-on-BEAR: cluster computing for neuroimaging analysis |
| 14:00 | Kirsty McCready | Deconstructing the Ceratopteris genome |
| 14:20 | Margarita Sarant | In search of the big data benefit when predicting language outcome after stroke using machine learning |
| 14:40 | Coffee Break (Atrium) | |
| 15:00 | Katherine Jeynes-Cupper | mobileRNA: A new tool for efficient analysis of RNA expression in multiple genomes |
| 15:20 | Christopher Mahony | Runx1 Is A Key Transcription Factor That Drives Synovial Fibroblast Pathogenicity In Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| 16:00 | Awards and Wrap-Up | |
| 16:30 | END |