Dr Andrew Baker gave a Topology seminar at University of Manchester on 8th February on "Hopf invariant one elements and E-infinity ring spectra".

Dr Kelly Gallacher, a research assistant in Statistics, recently completed a two week secondment with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) as part of her EPSRC SECURE network funded project: "Statistical software to identify spatiotemporal patterns and coherence over river networks". During the secondment Kelly developed a tool using TIBCO Spotfire software to allow users within SEPA to implement statistical methods developed during Kelly’s PhD.   

The tool enables users to identify dominant spatial and temporal patterns in data collected on river networks and can be applied across the whole of Scotland, as well as individual river catchments. This will help identify areas where water quality has remained stable over time or groups of monitoring sites exhibiting the same temporal pattern, and this information can be used to improve the focus of water quality monitoring programmes. 

Kelly is grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with SEPA and for advice received from programmers and environmental scientists that helped ensure the tool would be useful for both statisticians and non-statisticians. The tool will be launched in April with an information session and demonstration for potential users in SEPA.    

Dr David MacTaggart presented his research work at the final of SET for Britain on 7th March, which contained a mixture of politicians, academics and people from industry.

Dr Peter Stewart presented his research in a seminar at the University of Durham on 8th March entitled "Using Fluid Mechanics to improve medical treatment protocals".

First published: 30 March 2016

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