4th year student and his team attend Sauder Summit Global Case competition in Vancouver

Tim Backstrom, a fourth year undergraduate pure mathematics student, and aspiring management consultant, was accepted to represent the University in the Sauder Summit Global Case Competition in Vancouver. The Sauder Summit is a six-day case competition, held this year from Saturday 7th until Friday 13th of March, which puts students against each other and challenges them to solve real business situations. Talking of his experience at the competition Tim said:

“The main benefit of entering this competition was to experience what it was like to either be a consultant for a company, or to be part of the board of directors of the company. We were put in an extremely stressful situation where we had to use our combined knowledge and creativity to come up with solutions to these problems and back them up with financial data supporting our claims. From this we learnt not only to think on the spot, but also to work together in a group and being able to present to very senior people within the company.”

1st year student wins Higgs Prize

Julie Lynch, one of our first year undergraduate students, was one of the winners of the Higgs Prize. The prize rewards pupils who show a particular aptitude for the subject. There were four winners in total and they met Professor Higgs and also the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon MSP and Education Secretary Angela Constance when they collected their awards.

4th year student attends "Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today 2015" and scoops up prize for "best talk"

Eamon Quinlan, a fourth year undergraduate studying mathematics, was selected to give a talk at the Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today 2015 conference, in York.  At the conference, undergraduate students talk about either research they have been involved with or something they find interesting. Eamon participated in last year's edition by preparing a talk on Representation Theory but this year decided to join and give a talk on the work he carried out over his summer at Indiana University, Bloomington, under the supervision of Prof. Christopher Connell. Talking about his own research made Eamon eligible to opt into the prize for “best talk” which he then went on to win. Eamon said:

“About a week before the conference Prof. Connell and I found a mistake in our proof, so the first thing I had to say in my talk was that there was a mistake and show what we were working on in order to fix it. It was a great surprise to be selected for the prize of best talk even after announcing my mistake in the proof. Overall, the conference was very well organized and I had a great time. I would encourage any keen students to attend next year's edition.”‌

PhD student visits Ohio State University for research trip

Qingying Shu has just returned from a 3 week research visit to Ohio State University.  This was co-funded by STATMOS, the College and the School.  STATMOS is an NSF funded network dealing with the Statistics and Mathematics of climate science, Glasgow is one of the European nodes of the network.  Qingying is working on a sensor PhD project concerning space weather (jointly with Lyndsay Fletcher, P&A, Matteo Ceriotti (Engineering), Marian Scott (M&S) and Peter Craigmile) and during her visit to OSU she was analysing satellite observations of the magnetosphere.

First published: 30 March 2015

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