Getting there

St Peter's is a short walk from the bus and rail stations, in the middle of New Inn Hall Street, Oxford.
Here is a map. The college has some more detailed maps on its "getting there" web page.

Programme

The Divergence of Languages: Mathematical Modelling and Estimation

Informal Workshop, The Latner room, St Peter's college, Oxford, 

Thursday 7the December 2006

9:55  Welcome
10:00 Geoff Nicholls (Oxford, cognate models, mis-specification)
10:35 David Welch (Imperial, software)
11:50 Robin Ryder (Oxford, WALS, problems and possibilities)

11:05 Tea and biscuits in the seminar room

11:30 Gesine Reinert (Oxford, phonetic data, dendrograms)
12:05 Paul Heggarty (Edinburgh, network analysis)

12:40 Lunch - buffet in the SPC bar

14:00 Michael Benskin (Oslo, scribal analysis, Atlas of Middle English, MDS)
14:35 Quentin Atkinson + Mark Pagel (Reading, rate heterogeneity)
15:20 Tea and biscuits in the seminar room

15:40 Russell Gray (Auckland, cognate data)
16:15 Evaluation session: Are we getting anywhere? How best to proceed?
16:45 Bar

Audience members

Marco Archetti, Russell Gray, Andrew Meade, Laura Fortunato,
Thomas Currie, Barry Cunliffe, Dario Spano, Geoff Nicholls, 
Mark Pagel, Quentin Atkinson, Jotun Hein, Gesine Reinert,
Robin Ryder, Keith Briggs, Michael Benskin, Paul Heggarty,
David Welch, Stephen Oppenheimer

Mechanics

We will be based in the Latner room at St Peter's, immediately to the right
on entering the college from New Inn Hall street. We will have an OHP and a
computer data-show. There is a white board, though it  is not terribly convenient to use.
Bring your talk on a memory stick, bring a laptop, or overheads.

A fairly simple buffet lunch will be provided. Please let me know right away
if you have any dietary requirements.