The School has organised a number of events over the last few months and has several more planned for the coming months, these include a research school for postgraduates and ECRs in Algebraic Lie theory and representation theory;  a NERC sponsored training course for Environmental Science PhD students in the UK in statistical methods for modelling and quantifying the environment.  Two further events include a further 1 week training course in January sponsored by NERC and a workshop in May on Soft Tissue Modelling.

Solving big data challenges

Drs Mayetri Gupta and Surajit Ray will be organising an international workshop in May next year titled "Solving big data challenges".  This workshop is jointly funded by the: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), U.K., and  Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST)  through the EPSRC-DST Indo-UK Initiative in applied mathematics.

Banff International Research Station (BIRS) workshops

Two members of staff have been successful in bidding to organise BIRS workshops.

In 2015, Surajit Ray is one of the organisers of a workshop on “Frontiers in Functional Data Analysis” which will take place from Sunday 28 June until Friday 3 July 2015.

In 2016, Andy Baker will organise a workshop on “Operations in Highly Structured Homology Theories” from Sunday 22 May until Friday 27 May 2016. Further details will be available in due course.

If you are interested in hosting an event within the School, please contact maths-stats-events@glasgow.ac.uk.

First published: 12 December 2014

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