Dr. Mark D. Preston: News
1st January 2012
Membership: Royal Statistical Society
Became a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
14th October 2011
Talk: Micro-Manager architecture
Invited keynote speaker at a Micro-Manager meeting for UK users. Jointly organised by Media Cybernetics and Cairn. Download the talk and code.
15th June 2011
Project: Genomic Analysis Website
Designing and implementing a gateway website, www.pathogenseq.org, to access a suite of cloud hosted genomic analysis tools.
17th January 2011
Research: Research Fellow in Statistical Genetics at LSHTM
A 3 year post-doctoral research fellow position at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
13th January 2011
Project: Consulting on Micro-Manager development for Scientifica
Providing instruction and direction on best practices for developing hardware devices in Micro-Manager for leading electrophysiology company Scientifica.
1st January 2011
Research: Data Analysis and Simulation of Butterfly Movement Patterns
Translating and analysing highly-accurate GPS data movement data from butterfly field work. Using this analysis to create butterfly movement simulations.
25th November 2010
Research: Cloud computing to run agent based models via Amazon EC2
Utilising the computing power of the Amazon Cloud to launch Ubuntu instances, run many simulations in parallel for research projects with YCCSA.
1st November 2010
Project: RS232 Serial Inteface for a Prior Pro-Scan 2 microscope stage
A small project to provide a software interface to a 4-dimensional microscope stage.
1st-3rd September 2010
Talk: Models in Population Dynamics and Ecology 2010
University of Leicester
1st August 2010
Project: Cairn Research
Bespoke Java open source development for Cairn Research providing a new experimental interface to Micro-Manager.
21st June 2010
Talk: Nature Investment Interaction
University of Leicester
17th Match 2010
Paper: A Nyström method for a boundary value problem arising in unsteady water wave problems
IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (abstract)
Convergence analysis of the boundary integral equation solution to a two-dimensional water wave problem.
Submitted: 3rd September 2009
24th February 2010
Paper: Evolutionary optimality in search problems
Journal Royal Society: Interface, Volume 7, Number 50, Pages 1301-1310 (abstract)
An interesting paper on zero-information searching strategies and performance matrics.
Submitted: 9th July 2009
1st May 2010
Project: MediaCybernetics
Improvements and upgrade to the Stereology plugin previously written for Image Pro Plus.
1st January 2010
Project: Prismea Research and Development
Launch of Prismea Research and Development division. See our homepage or the press release.
3th August 2009
Project: Navier-Stokes Diffusing Vortices
University of Bath
A project in numerical analysis working for Prof Edward Fraenkel FRS.
17th June 2009
Talk: Workshop on Path Analysis and Modelling Movement Behaviour
University of Essex