Leading Enhancements in Assessment & Feedback (LEAF) symposium

‌On Monday 26th October 2015, Tara Brendle and Andrew Wilson gave an invited talk "Online assessment and feedback: how to square the circle" at the Leading Enhancements in Assessment & Feedback (LEAF) symposium held at Glasgow University.  The goal of the symposium is to identify common issues related to assessment and feedback practices to help create a Glasgow University Assessment and Feedback toolkit for staff and student use.  Tara and Andrew described ongoing implementation of online assessment and scanning technology currently being used in our Level 1 and 2 Mathematics courses. 

Antony Overstall was invited to give a seminar at Newcastle University on Friday 30th October 2015. Antony talked about "Bayesian Optimal Design for Ordinary Differential Equation Models".

Peter Stewart attended the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting in Boston (USA) from Sunday 22nd to Tuesday 24th November 2015. Peter presented his latest research in a talk entitled "Microscale effects in aqueous foam fracture".

Stuart White, and his collaborators, Aaron Tikuisis (Aberdeen), Wilhelm Winter (Münster), were invited to present their recent solution to Rosenberg's conjecture and its applications to the classification of simple nuclear C*-algebras in a series of 6 lectures in Copenhagen in November. You can read more about this by accessing the following link: http://www.math.ku.dk/english/research/conferences/2015/qd/

Stuart has also presented this work at a conference in Hawaii (http://sites.psu.edu/hawaii2015/), and in seminars in Australia, Germany and Belgium and will give another lecture series on these results in Virginia in December.

First published: 17 November 2015

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