Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Scholarship event

PhD student Craig Alexander won second prize in the poster competition during the Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Scholarship event on Tuesday 22nd November 2016. This is a yearly event for all of the LKAS funded PhD students to showcase their work. Well done Craig!

Maths, Stats, SofTMech and Computing Science postgraduate students' mixer

During this informal event on Friday 18th November 2016, research students were able to socialize with new PhD students in our School and those from Computing Science. The event offered the opportunity to share interests, research topics, and exchange ideas on study techniques. It was well attended by postgraduate students from across the School and also from Computing Science.

Viva success

Vinny Davies successfully defended his thesis on Monday 7th November 2016. Vinny's research was on Bayesian Computational Statistics in Systems Biology. He was supervised by Dirk Husmeier. Congratulations Vinny!

Audi’s Global Business Case Competition (GBCC 2016)

The GBCC 2016 took place at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University between Tuesday 11th and Monday 17th October 2016. The University of Glasgow was represented by “Meticulous Medley”. The team, which included three students from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, are:

  • Mateusz Del Percio - MA in Economics and Mathematics
  • Petr Perina - MA in Business Economics and Business Management
  • Ivona Voroneckaja - MSci Statistics
  • Karol Yearwood - MA in Economics and Mathematics

Team member Ivona explains:

“It was an amazing experience to be a part of the team representing the University of Glasgow at the Global Business Case Competition in Japan organised by Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU). This year, the competition was sponsored by Audi Japan and hence the business case was on the issue that Audi Japan currently faces - the war for talent. Teams from all over the world had 24 hours to come up with a solution to the problem, prepare income/cost plans and present the proposed plan to the panel of judges. It has been an intense however extremely rewarding experience as we got to improve on a variety of skills such as public speaking, team work, working under pressure and many more. As a representative of Statistics field, I contributed by performing Monte Carlo simulations for net present value calculations to evaluate our proposed solution under various states of economy. Each and every member of the team brought a different set of skills to the table and we worked well together to deliver a great presentation. Our team came second in our division and took a shared fifth place in the world.

Also, APU had a variety of events organised for us in order to explore Japan and cultures of other teams. After the opening ceremony, we had a gift exchange between the teams where the lucky team of The University of Waikato got to experience the taste of Scottish whiskey while our university team received lovely t-shirts from University of California, Berkeley. We also got to explore cities of Fukuoka, Beppu and Yifei and even enjoy the famous Japanese hot springs. Overall, it has been an amazing experience to meet so many talented people from all over the world and make the University of Glasgow proud!”

Well done to the team and congratulations for representing the School, and the University, so spectacularly!

Further information about the competition can be found on the GBCC website at https://gbccapublog.wordpress.com/.

First published: 30 November 2016

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