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1. This week’s workshop
2. When – date and timings
3. Where
4. Please bring
5. Directions
   1. from Stepney Green station
   2. from Mile End station
6. Absences – important, please note!

1. This week’s workshop: Networks, Traffic Flow and the Missing Road Paradox

Adam Eppendahl and his team of assistants will be leading this week’s workshop, on “Networks, Traffic Flow and the Missing Road Paradox”. The class will be making a mechanical computer from paperclips and string, using the computer to find the shortest path and make predictions when a piece of string is cut (or a road is blocked).

2. When – date and timings
25 February 2023 – Week One

• Arrive: ~9.30am
• Registration: ~9.45am
• Workshop begins: 10am
• (Break in the middle for snacks – please bring your snack)
• Workshop ends: 12.30pm

3. Where

The venue is the Engineering Building, Mile End Road (directions below), post code: E1 4NS.

4. Please bring

Please bring a snack and a drink. There are supermarkets and other shops between Stepney Green or Mile End stations and the venue (please make sure you have your snack and drink before you arrive).

5: Directions
5.1: From Stepney Green station

Here’s a map with a route marked out.

• The nearest tube station is Stepney Green tube station. Exit the station and turn left (you are now on Mile End Road (A11) and in front of you Globe Road (B120) is on your left (you’ll cross Globe Road).
• If you want to pick up a snack first there’s a small Sainsbury’s on Globe Road, or once you’ve crossed the road there’s a Co-op further up Mile End Road.
• Keep walking up Mile End Road, past Bancroft Road
• You will come to a building set back from the road, with a glass front and five metal bollards in front of it, it’s also next to a Bus Stop (D) where the 25 and 205 buses stop – that’s the Engineering Building (Google Streetview shows what it looks like).
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• From 9.30am you’ll be able to enter the building and wait in the foyer; the workshop will also take place on the ground floor (“G2a”).
  

5.2: From Mile End station

Here’s a map with the route marked out.

• 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.
• You will come to a building set back from the road, with a glass front and five metal bollards in front of it, it’s also next to a Bus Stop (D) where the 25 and 205 buses stop – that’s the Engineering Building (Google Streetview shows what it looks like).
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• From 9.30am you’ll be able to enter the building and wait in the foyer; the workshop will also take place on the ground floor (“G2a”).

6. Absences

If you can’t attend this or any other session please let us know (please don’t rely on just telling your teacher or anyone else in case the message doesn’t get through). You or your parents / guardians can email Jo on j.brodie@qmul.ac.uk If we’ve not heard from someone by about 10.15am we’ll check with their emergency contact to make sure they’re OK and not lost somewhere.

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