Events
Published: 4 August 2016
Hosted both within and out with the School
Future Events
The Academy for PhD Training in Statistics is a collaboration between major UK statistics research groups to organise courses for first-year PhD students in statistics and applied probability nationally. The intention of APTS is to provide courses which will be attractive and relevant to the research preparation and background education of all statistics and probability PhD students in the UK. APTS is open also to students from institutions outside the UK.
This year, week 4 will be held at the University of Glasgow from 22nd to 26th August 2016 and is being organised by Dr Antony Overstall.
SAILR Meeting
The SAILR Meeting will be held at the University of Glasgow from 22nd to 24th August 2016 and is being organised by Dr Tereza Neocleous.
This is a workshop for a project funded by the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI). The University of Glasgow is a partner alongside forensic research centres such as the Netherlands Forensic Institute and the Institute of Forensic Research (Poland) as well as several European universities (e.g. Edinburgh, Lancaster, Chalmers in Sweden). The project aims to build evidence evaluation software to aid forensic practitioners with case work. The workshop will be attended by the team of statisticians who have developed the software and by forensic scientists who will test out the software before its general release.
The 31st British Topology Meeting will take place from Monday 29th to Wednesday 31st August 2016 as organised by Dr Andy Baker, Prof Tara Brendle, Dr Vaibhav Gadre, Dr Brendan Owens, Dr Andy Wand and Dr Liam Watson of our School. For further information, see: http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~btm31/
Past events
Summer students’ event
On the morning of 28th July 2016, six of the School’s undergraduate summer students gave short talks about their research projects to an audience of fellow students and staff.
The 26th international Environmetrics conference was held in Scotland for the first time from 18th to 22nd July 2016. There was a very strong Glasgow presence in organising the conference, in planning invited sessions and in presenting at the conference. The School’s own Prof Marian Scott was a member of both the scientific and organising committees and also on the local organising committee were Drs Duncan Lee and Claire Miller from our School.
The best student poster award went to a Glasgow student, Marnie Mclean as well as the best student oral presentation award which was presented to Amira Elayouty, so very well done to both of them.
We also had a very strong presence in the programme with invited talks from Dr Duncan Lee, and Dr Ruth O'Donnell, and contributed talks from Mengyi Gong, Craig Wilkie and posters from Qingying Shu, Eilidh Jack and Guowen Huang.
Glasgow shone at the event, and all of the delegates went home with a "Think Glasgow" message.
Street Maths
Street theatre and mathematics collided at the Glasgow Science Festival on 11th and 12th June 2016, to great success reaching out to around six hundred participants over three days. Audience members were recruited from passers-by and enthusiastically involved in messy mathematical experiments and interactive demonstrations. Some comments about Dr Andrew Wilson’s Street Maths:
- "Amazing show…thanks for explaining maths with easy words and making it fun!”
- "Absolutely brilliant. My son was transfixed for an hour and more.”
- "Bringing science to life, fantastic!”
- "Excellent, fantastic show for adults & kids”
- “Great ability to interact with children & explain complex ideas in an understandable way."
As feature in our June Newsletter, the first Dialogue (on Heart Failure) was held on 22nd April 2016 at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University Glasgow. This dialogue aims to identify some crucial challenges in the area of heart failure and diseases for the next 20 years as seen by clinicians today, which may be tractable to a mathematical modelling approach.
The event has been recorded as a YouTube video which you can view here: https://youtu.be/mH8CgNYvRw8
First published: 4 August 2016
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