Viva success

Ameneh Asgari Targhi successfully defended her thesis on Wednesday 31st May. Ameneh's research was on nonlinear dynamics and control of the electrophysiology of atrial fibbrillation. She was supervised by Radostin Simitev.

Congratulations Ameneh!

The annual UK Magnetohydrodynamics (UKMHD) meeting for 2017 took place at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st April. Mathematics postgraduate student Jamie Quinn attended the event and won the Early Career Researcher Outstanding Poster Award for his poster. Jamie explains:

"Being part of such a small field, UKMHD is a wonderful time to come together with fellow PhD students and researchers from all over the UK and interact both intellectually in talks and poster sessions and also socially, which for me is where some of the real collaboration potential comes from. This year I was ridiculously pleased to win the early career researcher outstanding poster award for my poster on how introducing anisotropic viscosity in solar simulations can dramatically change the predicted heating."

The Research Students Conference (RSC) in Probability and Statistics took place at Durham University between Tuesday 18th and Friday 21st April. Five postgraduates students in Statistics attended; Salihah Alghamdi, Randa Alharbi, Eilidh Jack, Bader Lafi Q Alruwaili and Suzy Whoriskey. Bader and Randa both presented a poster, while Eilidh, Salihah and Suzy presented a talk. Suzy said:

“The conference was a great opportunity to present our own work to other PhD students in the UK & Ireland and as well network and meet friends from other universities!

Eilidh and I both attended the castle tour which was out of this world, with images of the castle below. It's an 11th century castle and it feels it! The conference formal dinner was also held there, followed by a ceilidh in the Great Hall... Obviously, being the only Scots there, we did our best to represent the university by dancing every single dance.

The level of talks this year was great; everyone that presented done so confidently and all the talks were very interesting. Eilidh won the award for Best Talk!”

Hidden Talents

Statistics postgraduate student Umberto Noè was asked to give a recital in the University of Glasgow Lunchtime organ recitals series on Wednesday 12th April. He played pieces by M. E. Bossi, J. Pachelbel, F. Mendelssohn, A. Vivaldi, J. F. Dandrieu and V. Bellini on a beautiful organ built by Henry Willis, who also built the organ in the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Short Biography
Umberto Noè started playing the piano at six years old. At the age of nine, he switched to the organ studying with Wladimir Matesic and Gian Paolo Bovina in the organists’ school of the Cathedral of Bologna. He has been organist in a church in Bologna for 10 years, starting at the age of nine years old, playing a traditional Italian organ built by Antonio Colonna in 1622.

Meanwhile he studied Statistics in the University of Bologna, graduating with 110/110 cum Laude, and was chosen to complete the double-degree exchange programme with the University of Glasgow, graduating here with a first class degree in Statistics. Umberto is now a 3rd year PhD student in Statistics at the University of Glasgow, funded by the Biometrika Trust.

He has been playing during Morning Prayers in the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel since October 2013.

First published: 7 June 2017

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