Headstart 2007 Timetable

  Monday 9th Tuesday 10th Wednesday 11th Thursday 12th Friday 13th
Breakfast   0830 Café 21
(if stayed overnight)
0800 Café 21 0800 Café 21 0800 Café 21
Morning 1030 Registration & refreshments
Cartmel JCR
0900 Mobile application development - Dr Paul Coulton, department of Communication Systems 0900 Project time 0900 Final project work: preparation of presentations
1130 Course Induction
Masters Training Suite
1200 Break 1100 Break 1100 Break
1200 Campus Challenge 1215 Applying to University - Alan Darragh, Science Partnership Officer, Faculty of Science and Technology 1115 "Socialising Technologies" - Kinglsey Dennis, Centre for Mobilities Research, Department of Sociology 1115 Presentation Rehearsal
Lunch 1230 County South 1300 County South 1200 Packed lunch 1200 Sandwich lunch
Masters Training Suite
Afternoon 1330 Introduction to Ubiquitous Computing 1400 "BigDog" - Dr Simon Lock 1300 Coniston trip - Coach leaves InfoLab21 at 1300 prompt, returning at 1845 1230 Project presentations and awarding of prizes
Prof Gordon Blair (Head of Computing Department)
1415 Project aims and objectives 1515 Break
1445 Prototyping embedded systems with Mindstorms 1530 Project time
1600 Break 1715 Grapevine: Q&A sesion with recent graduates 1500 Departure
1615 Studying computing based courses at University - Dr Adrian Friday  
1700 - 1745 Initial project brainstorming 1800 Project time
Dinner 1800 - 1900 Café 21 1900 Chinese meal at Wong's Restaurant 1900 BBQ Café 21
Evening Overnight accommodation available if required 2000 Sports Evening
LU Sports Centre
2030 Quiz
Cartmel JCR
2030 Film Evening
Masters Training Suite

All talks, workshops and project work are in the Masters Training Suite in the Engineering Building unless otherwise indicated.

All Ubiquitous Computing sessions will be lead by Dr Mike Hazas (Academic Fellow and Lecturer, Computing Department)