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e-STUDENT NEWSLETTER
Autumn 2013
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Contents
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A new term/semester and a new academic year. And a specially warm welcome to the nearly 500 new e-students who signed up as a result of our UCAS communication.
I hope things are going well and that you had a great summer.
I had a lovely 10 days in Sicily, the Historical notes article in the
Mathematics Today section is a complete coincidence. The best bits were Etna, the ruins at Agrigento, the mosaics at Monreale and playing with the experiments in the Archimedes museum in Ortigia at Syracuse. Disappointed with the Archimedes Technopark
on the edge of the city near the Greek theatre – it looked like it had been really good a few years back and then left unfunded so things were rusty and the instructions faded. We did see what is alleged to be the tomb of Archimedes.
News Items
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X and Y written and performed by Marcus Du Sautoy
at the Science Museum 10-16th October
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Enter the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships TakeAIM 2013 competition for the chance to win an Apple MacBook Air.
Closing date: Friday 18th October 2013 Describe your research in 250 words.
Details
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Tuesday 29th October Modern Cryptography
by Dr Richard Pinch London branch lecture at University of Greenwich
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Early Career Mathematicians’ Autumn Conference
Saturday 16th November 2013, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
more details and how to register
below
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Deadline for entry to the prestigious
SET for Britain poster competition and exhibition at the House of Commons for
early-stage and early-career research scientists, engineers, technologists and mathematicians
is 20th December.
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Tomorrow’s Mathematician’s Today conference 2014 15th February at University of Surrey,
registration is open and the call for paper is launched see the attachment. More information is on the conference website
www.surrey.ac.uk/maths/tmt2014
GCHQ are again offering a prize for the best presentation. Shortlisted presentations will be judged on the day and there has been a fantastic response to requests for sponsorship from Taylor and Francis, Springer and MedImmune. The
deadline for abstracts (200 words) is Friday 13th December 2013.
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TMTC 2015 will be a February date in 2015 at University of York.
· And if you have younger relatives also interested in Maths,the IMA MathsCareers site just launched its annual poster competition. The theme this year, done in collaboration with the Citi Money Gallery at the British Museum, is imagining and designing a currency for all of planet Earth. There are three age groups covering pupils 11-19. The winner in each of the age groups will receive an Android tablet and family tickets to the latest exhibition at the British Museum (under 16s are entitled to free entry to exhibitions). Link to the competition page: http://bit.ly/MathsPoster
All very best wishes, Erica
Erica Tyson University Liaison Officer Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications
Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson St, Southend on Sea, Essex SS1 1EF
01332 385470
erica...@ima.org.uk
Selected articles from the June issue of
Mathematics Today
ULO Report
Extract from the University Liaison activity report for October
Mathematics Today
As promised there is a report and bio from Sam Kamperis our new Postgraduate Liaison Officer, below. Also, thank-you very much to Imperial College Mathematical
Society for the report on their Mathematics Colloquium, facilitated by their IMA grant. I am pleased to report we have already approved 5 grants for the new academic year to Royal Holloway, Imperial, King’s, Aston and Sheffield. So come on Maths Socs in the
rest of the UK, let’s see those applications.
There are already a number of careers events lined up for the autumn term though still plenty of room for other requests, though Wednesdays in the autumn term
are fully booked. Just e-mail me at Erica...@ima.org.uk to request a talk.
I have had one internship report for the e-Student newsletter, always keen for more.
Autumn term is the peak for careers activity with recruiters on campus for fairs and presentations. Get your CV in order and get out there and see who is offering
what kind of roles.
For those who didn’t read this in the October issue last year, 3 reasons why it pays to apply early
- Some opportunities have early closing dates – ‘blue chip grad schemes and civil service ‘fast track’
- Employers like people who are organised, think ahead and can manage multiple priorities – so you look even better applying early.
- If you don’t find or get what you want initially there is time to carry on looking and applying and/or rethink your options before the year’s recruitment round finishes.
And if you’re not clear on your career goals then putting your CV together and researching options will help. Your careers service will have on-line guidance
and may run workshop sessions on writing your CV and covering letters for applications. They will certainly offer a checking service. There are lots of great resources online and/or through your careers service.
All the best for the new academic year, Erica Tyson, University Liaison Officer.
Hello! In my new role as Postgraduate Liaison Officer for the IMA, I have already had the chance to meet so many other postgraduate students in the mathematics
community. For example, in June I attended the YRMC (Young Researchers in Mathematics Conference) at Edinburgh University both as a delegate and during the breaks as IMA rep. This was a great opportunity to hear talks from the invited keynote speakers and
also from research students in mathematics. The conference covered twelve broad areas of mathematics including Algebra, Analysis & PDEs, Combinatorics, Mathematical Biology and Numerical Analysis, and Sir Michael Atiyah gave a fascinating plenary lecture on
mathematicians he has known throughout his long and prestigious career. I also managed to sign up 3 new Associate Members. I will certainly be attending the YRMC 2014 at Warwick University next year. (contact
yrm...@googlegroups.com). In the meantime I am looking forwards to the ECM conference on November 16th at Strathclyde.
Recently I delivered a talk to postgraduate students in Bath. If you would like a presentation on the IMA to your postgraduate student group you can contact me
on sam.ka...@ima.org.uk.
Following the success of the university liaison grants to undergraduate Maths Societies we are looking to establish a programme of grants to be available to postgraduate
groups around mathematical topics. If you are in a topic group or are interested in establishing one and would be interested in one of our grants of £300 to support your activity, I would be keen to hear from you.
Sam Kamperis Postgraduate Liaison Officer.
Sam Kamperis is a PhD student in Applied Mathematics at Oxford Brookes University. His research area is computational geometry. Sam became the IMA Postgraduate
Liaison Officer in June this year
The winner of the Essay competition is Naseerah Akooji from the University of Central Lancashire.
Thank-you for your account of your summer internship:
Knowing that my first year at the University of Central Lancashire studying a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics was coming to
an end, I searched around online for any summer internships or volunteering work around research departments.
As I have a keen interest in Health I emailed the research department at the Royal Blackburn Hospital. They had no intern
position for me there so directed me towards the Professor of Midwifery at my own University who was running a few research projects. After getting in contact with her and meeting her to discuss what it is her department does, I realised that there can be
positions for someone with a Mathematical background in any department.
I have worked here all summer, officially known as ‘the unpaid intern’ and work two/three days a week. It’s been a very
eye opening time for me as I have now realised how much basic and high level Maths is needed in research. In the time I’ve spent here, I have been involved in 2 different research projects both relating to Midwifery. Although I have basic knowledge about it,
the team here have given me tasks ideally suited for a Mathematics student. My main achievement has been collecting numerous data, collating it all and generating graphs from it. This data is being used to write a paper for ‘The Lancet’ journal where I hope
to have my name in the acknowledgments.
I can definitely say that my time as an intern at the university has not been wasted, I have learnt many different data styles and inputs and a lot
more. If I do consider taking a career in any health related research department, I have had this time to gain some experience and a sense of what the work is like here. I don’t know whether that’s what I definitely want to do in the future but it’s been great
for me to see that this is something I could do at the end of my degree.
Naseerah Akooji
Aerospace theme this time.
A case studies from the Mathematics Matters series
Used the only aero ones for the defence theme last time so here they are again
KTNs are an initiative of the Technology Strategy Board to stimulate technological innovation by sharing knowledge
and forming connections between interested people working in the field or wanting to work in the field.
Guide to booking speakers for Mathematics Societies attached document
A case study from the +plus magazine website
Following on from the Defence theme of the summer newsletter there are some new profiles on MathsCareers
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16th November Early Career Mathematicians’ Autumn Conference
The conference aims to bring together Mathematics students and Mathematicians in the early stages of their careers, from both academia and industry, for a day of entertaining activities
and talks from a range of people with a variety of backgrounds and interests.
This ever popular event is open to anybody with an interest in maths and is a great opportunity to meet Mathematicians from around the country at similar stages in their careers to
you, and maybe even discover a career option that you had never considered before!
Jacqueline Bishop AMIMA, Conference Leader, IMA Early Career Mathematicians' Autumn Conference 2013
Programme
09:30 - 09:55 Registration
09:55 - 10:00 Welcome
10:00 - 10:30
Gillian Carson – Title TBC – Morgan Stanley
10:30 - 11:00 Graeme West – "Automated intelligent analysis of nuclear power plant data" – University of Strathclyde
11:00 - 11:20 Break
11:20 - 11:50 Speaker to be confirmed
11:50 - 12:20
Cameron Mackay – Adventures of a Mathematician in Safety Science – Unilever
12:20 - 13:20 Lunch
13:20 - 13:50
Leigh-Ann Scott – Title TBC – Dalziel High School, Motherwell
13:50 - 14:20
Natacha Lord – A career path to quantitative analyst – Moody’s Risk Management Services
14:20 - 14:40 Break
14:40 - 15:40 Panel session
15:40 - 16:10 Erica Tyson - IMA University Liaison Officer
16:10 - 16:25 ECM / Close.
Please note that times may be subject to change.
Conference Fees
IMA Student £15; IMA e-Student £20; Non-IMA Student £25; IMA Member £25; Non-IMA Member £45
Further information:
As you will note, fees are reduced for IMA members and IMA Student Members, not only for this conference, but for all IMA conferences. For further information on joining the IMA, including
“IMA Student” grade, please visit:
For registration and further information on this conference, please contact the Conference Office at
confe...@ima.org.uk or +44 (0) 1702 354020 or visit the conference webpage:
17th October
IoP 76 Portland Place
Elizabeth Johnson 18.00 Memorial Lecture Prof Brian Johnson on the role of a Scientific Adviser
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30th October
Graduate Engineer Show
Roundhouse Derby
2013 MathsJam is on November 2nd/3rd. now open for registration
http://www.mathsjam.com/confindex.html
On the site you can register and reserve a room, the early-bird 10% discount is currently active.
London Knowledge Lab 23-29 Emerald St, London
The MathsArt events for the new academic year have yet to be posted but they have a different web-page and it lists other events they are running.
*LKLMathsArt on YouTube: Archive of videos from the Maths-Art seminars.
http://www.youtube.com/user/LKLMathsArt
*Visit the MathsArt website and seminar archive:
http://www.lkl.ac.uk/events/maths-art
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Tuesday 15th October 2013
Euler – 300 years on by Robin Wilson University of Birmingham
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16th October IMA Careers Talk Danielle Brewsher 6pm Manchester Metropolitan University E32 John Dalton Building
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Wednesday 23th October What can we learn from the birds and bees? – Optimality Models in Behavioural Ecology
A talk by Dr Sean Collins (School of Mathematics, University of Bristol) starting at 6.30 pm Main Building University of Derby, Kedleston Road
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Wednesday 23rd October –
The Mathematics of Televisions by Nigel Mottram (University of Strathclyde) 5.30 room University of Strathclyde, LT908 Livingstone Tower building
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Tuesday 29th October Modern Cryptography
by Dr Richard Pinch (Cheltenham) 6:30pm, University of Greenwich, King William Building KW303,
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12th November
Florence Nightingale: using graphical statistical analysis to combat the spread of disease.
A talk by Noel-Ann Bradshaw (University of Greenwich) at The Club Room, The Old Joint Stock, Temple Row West, Birmingham
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12th November
A Chance Encounter Joint IMA/BSHM Richard Simpson (Hon Sec BSHM) 6pm Manchester Metropolitan University E32 John Dalton Building
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Tuesday 12 November
Post-16 Mathematics Curriculum and Assessment Changes A talk byStella Dudzic 7.30 pm Room A0.01, Schofield Building Loughborough University
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13th November
Research: Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics
Endre Suli Imperial College 4-5pm Huxley 139
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Thursday 5 December 2013. Easter
Island population collapse; historical anachronism or warning for the 21st Century? A talk by John Stubbs and Chris Parkes (University of Derby). 7.30 pm. Heap Lecture Theatre, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby.
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Thursday 5th December
Mathematics and Astronomy by Andrew Fletcher (University of Newcastle) 5.30 University of Glasgow
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10th December
The Maths that makes the modern world Richard Elwes University of Leeds
6.30pmTuesday10thDecember2013 (Refreshments from 6.00pm) Mitchell and Kenyon Cinema Foster Building UCLAN
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Wednesday 19 March 2014. Brass
for Brain: Lord Kelvin and tide prediction. A talk by Raymond Flood (Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford and Gresham Professor of Geometry, Gresham College). 7.30 pm. Room A17, Mathematical Sciences Building, University of Nottingham,
University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD.
Maths or relevant articles in other publications
These are a few things I’ve come across in my reading.
New Scientist
www.newscientist.com
3rd August page 20 Technology section is on crowdsourcing and gaming
10th August page 33 ‘Higher State of Mind’ about the challenges of AI
17th August page 32 ‘The infinity illusion’ and page 43 ‘Parallel sparking’
31st August page 19 Let there be ‘games’
7th September page 33 ‘Whispers from the past’ and page 37 ‘Penal code’
14th September page 21 ‘Gamers get to work on hard-to-treat tumours’
Physics World
www.physicsworld.com
August page 5 ‘Solving equations with light’; page 22-27 not maths but important to researchers ‘The reality of open access’.
September page 37-41 ‘A fascination with fractals’ and the careers section on page 48 is worth a read, though written for physicists the advice is generic and works for other disciplines.
AeroSpace
www.aerosociety.com
September page 16 Mark Slater Director of MBDA Future Systems writes about Research within the Defence sector.
Page 28 ‘Blue Sky Thinking’ is an analysis of patents to indicate research trends.
St Andrews University have a History of Maths website. http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/
Events supported this term
Careers Talks
to postgraduate students at Bath by Sam Kamperis and to Oxford Brookes 1st year students by Erica Tyson
Sam attended the
Topology Summer school at Oxford University
Coming up
Careers Talks
30th September Bolton 1 - 4pm 1st year Maths undergraduates Careers module
7th October Leeds 10am – 12 noon 2nd year Maths Undergraduates Careers module
8th October Aston
9th October Manchester Calculating Careers Fair 11.30 – 3pm Atrium of Alan Turing Building
11th October St Andrews Management & Finance Careers Fair 12 noon – 3pm St Andrews Town Hall with a Careers presentation at 4pm in the university
16th October Nottingham Trent Careers talk Clifton Campus
23rd October Northumbria Careers Fair Sutherland Building 10 – 4pm
24th October Imperial College 1pm Careers talk; 6pm Careers’ speed dating
30th October Keele Careers Presentation
31st Dundee 11am-1pm Careers Event
6th November Newcastle Careers for Mathematicians afternoon
12th November Plymouth 2pm Careers talk
20th November Southampton Careers talk 1pm
21st November Portsmouth Employability day
27th November QMC Careers Talk 1pm
3rd December Glyndwr 10-3.30pm Careers Event
Other events
16th November
ECM Conference Strathclyde University
The next Tomorrow’s Mathematicians Today Undergraduate Mathematicians Conference
will be on 15th February at the University of Surrey
The keynote speaker will be Professor Fernando Alday of Oxford University, winner of a Wolfson Research Merit Award (2013), a London Mathematical Society Whitehead prize (2013) and an MPLS Teaching Award (2013)
Registration is open http://www2.surrey.ac.uk/maths/news/events/2014/tomorrows_mathematicians_today_2014.htm
The 2015 TMT Conference will be in February 2015 at University of York
At the start of the last academic year the Department for Education (DfE) asked the IMA to work with other Maths Professional Bodies to develop and deliver a Scholarship scheme to encourage those with a strong
academic or professional maths background to become secondary maths teachers. Since January we have awarded 91 Scholarships bringing a range of benefits including a £20,000 grant. We are currently in discussions with DfE about continuing this into a second
year and hope to receive Ministerial approval shortly.
WB Yates said "Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire". Were you inspired by one of your teachers? Could you share your love of maths with others?
If you have just started the final year of your undergraduate or post graduate degree and are inspired by and love maths, consider teaching as a career. There are a number of different options to complete your
training including based at a University or within a school – see
http://www.education.gov.uk/get-into-teaching for more information. Generous bursaries are offered to help with the cost of training and living.
And of course you could be eligible for a Maths Teacher Training Scholarship - there will be an announcement in the next few weeks, watch this space........
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