Week Six – Saturday 5 April 2025

We are in a different building this week: The Graduate Centre (see #2 and #5 for how to find it). We are on the same road as last week though, opposite the Peter Landin building. We’ll be on the 2nd floor (there is a lift!). The foyer should be open though we will have our break in the same room as we’re not using computers this week). Venue details below.

This page was updated on Wednesday 2 April 2025.

Please let Jo know if you can’t attend this session: j.brodie@qmul.ac.uk. Please don’t rely on telling teachers as they might not have my contact details, thank you.
Remember to bring a snack for the mid-morning break.

1. What

Morgan Stanley: Problem Solving Masterclass

Problem solving is a crucial skill not only for job/university interviews but for day to day work in any field in Science or Technology. During the session technologists from Morgan Stanley will present you with a variety of problems you will work in small teams to solve using logical thinking and deduction, without the need for a screen.

2. Where

We will be in The Graduate Centre (Room GC 204 on the 2nd floor) on Bancroft Road, off Mile End Road. This building is directly opposite the Peter Landin building that we were in last week and is also just round the corner from the Engineering Building. (Please see 5. Venue directions for more detailed information).

That entrance looks like this.

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Entrance to QMUL’s Graduate Centre on Bancroft Road. That’s the same road as we were on last week but this time it’s the building on the other side of the road, opposite the Peter Landin building. Pic credit: QMUL venues.

Note: the post code (E1 4NS) is not very informative as we are a campus university so all post arrives centrally before being redistributed, and we are some distance from the post code ‘point’.

3. When

Saturday 5 April 2025.
Registration will be from 9.45am but you can come to the building any time after 9.30am.
The class begins at 10am and ends at 12.30pm.
I will wait with any student who hasn’t been collected but please collect everyone by 1pm, thank you.

4. Please bring a snack

We will have a mid-morning break at some point during the workshop. Please bring with you a snack and drink if you would like one. There is a Sainsbury’s on Mile End Road just across the road from the venue (also one near Stepney Green station, and a Co-op). It’s possible that, with other events taking place on campus, the Graduate Café will be open but I’m not certain.

5. Venue directions

More photographs of the building and also how to use the lifts to the second floor (or take the stairs).

From Stepney Green tube station [NEAREST]

The nearest tube station is Stepney Green tube station. Exit the station and turn left (you are now on Mile End Road (A11) and Globe Road (B120) is on your left (you’ll cross Globe Road). If you need to get a snack you have Sainsbury’s on your left (on Globe Road) and a Co-op in front of you once you’ve crossed Globe Road.
Keep walking up Mile End Road, turn left into Bancroft Road (you will walk under a stone bridge announcing the Faculty of Engineering, keep going. You will soon pass the Infusion shop on the left (usually closed at weekends). The Graduate Centre is the large glass building on the right. Don’t go any further than the green and black panelled building (G.E. Fogg) which spans the road.

If you are arriving by bus it’s the 25 or 205 which will drop you closest, at Bus Stop D.

From Mile End tube station

Mile End station is a little further away (but not much).
If you want to take the bus (25 or 205) Stop C is to your right as you exit the station
If you want to just walk then turn left as you exit the station (you are on Mile End Road) and keep walking in that direction – there are plenty of shops on the way including a Sainsbury’s that’s close to the venue.
You can cross to the other side of Mile End Road at the Sainsbury’s and keep walking in the same direction.
When you cross the road you’ll be looking at a very large white building called the Queen’s Building, walk past the Engineering Building where we had the first four sessions (you are now heading in the direction of Stepney Green) and then turn right into Bancroft Road.
You will walk under a stone bridge announcing the Faculty of Engineering, keep going. You will soon pass the Infusion shop on the left (usually closed at weekends). The Graduate Centre is the large glass building on the right. Don’t go any further than the green and black panelled building (G.E. Fogg) which spans the road.

You can also alight at Bus Stop E (Queen Mary University of London) for the Sainsbury’s.

Other bus routes that go nearby include 309 (Stepney Green station) and 339 (passes part of Mile End Road).

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