Past Events

Third Workshop on Soft Tissue Modelling

The third workshop on Soft Tissue Modelling was held at the University of Glasgow from Wednesday 7th to Friday 9th June. Following successful Soft Tissue Modelling Workshops in Glasgow in 2012 and 2015, this third workshop continued the research forum for modelling specialists and medical experts. The three-day workshop provided an environment to discuss and exchange ideas on state-of-the-art developments and challenges in the field of soft tissue modelling, with particular applications to tissues in the cardiovascular system and tissues affected by cancer.

The event included presentations from a number of world leading researchers in soft tissue mechanics, including plenary lectures by Prof Mark Chaplain (St Andrews), Prof Rhian Touyz (Glasgow), Prof Gerhard Holzapfel (TU Graz), Prof Alastair Thompson (Anderson Cancer Center, Texas), Prof Jay Humphrey (Yale) and our own Prof Ray Odgen. The event also included a number of talks by PhD students from our School and across the UK.

Prizes were awarded for the best PhD student talks, chosen by a distinguished judging panel, with two of our own students taking two of the top prizes. The winners were:

  • 1st prize: Mr. Liuyang Feng, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Glasgow
  • 2nd prize: Ms Adela Capilnasiu, Imaging Sciences & Biomedical Engineering, King’s College London
  • 3rd prize: Miss Mihaela Paun, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Glasgow

Congratulations to all of the students who presented their work.

The workshop was organized and sponsored by SofTMech, an EPSRC-funded Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Healthcare. Find out more by visiting the event webapge at http://www.softmech.org/events/thirdworkshoponsofttissuemodelling/

Mathematics at Glasgow: From the foundation of the University until now

On Monday 4th September, an exhibition entitled “Mathematics at Glasgow: From the foundation of the University until now” was held in the University Library. The purpose was to celebrate the new Mathematics and Statistics building by looking at the history of how mathematics was taught at Glasgow. After a catered reception and some words of welcome from the Head of School, attendees journeyed up to Special Collections to view works spanning the history of the University: from a copy of Euclid’s Elements from 1480 to University Exams from 1914.

Glasgow Big Data Event

The first half of the most recent Big Data Network’s event was held on Thursday 21st September, in the Senate Room within the University of Glasgow. Aimed at bringing together researchers from different backgrounds working with big data and/or big models, the event was open to all four Colleges within the University – with speakers from the School of Humanities, the Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology, the School of Education, the School of Engineering, the Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation and the School of Social and Political Sciences. The goal of the day was two-fold:

  1. To have short (10 minute) talks motivating the various problems/goals faced by the various research areas. Following each of these was an across the floor discussion, where audience members asked questions, to better understand the issues themselves, and offered suggestions for potential methods of data analysis. 
  2. To identify collaborators for the upcoming second half of the event (a day where those collecting the data work together with data scientists to answer a specific question of interest) and for future projects.

The participants commented that they found the discussions stimulating and were looking forward to the second half of the event. This second half is currently being organised and details will be available and circulated around the School soon. Please do come along and take part, even if you did not attend the first half. Possible application areas (to be confirmed) could include:

  • time series analysis e.g. weather/climate data, the effects of the movements of people during war
  • metabolomics e.g. how mesenchymal stem cells interact with nanoscale shapes/fibres/vibrations
  • spatial modelling e.g. variation with respect to education level, house price data
  • medical diagnostics e.g. how to correctly classify latent Tuberculosis,
  • cellular imaging e.g. cell clustering and migration
  • dna/rna sequencing e.g. gene expression, phenotype-genotype association

Depending on turnout and reaction, this might become a periodic event, so please do come and see what you think!

First published: 11 October 2017

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