Friday 15 January 2010

Welcome to our blog!

Welcome to our blog!

The Manchester SIAM Student Chapter was set up in December 2009, and is run by a committee of PhD students at the University of Manchester,
with help from our Faculty Advisors Nick Higham and David Silvester.

The committee currently consists of myself Chris Munro (President), RĂ¼diger Borsdorf (Vice President and Webmaster), Maha Al-Ammari (Treasurer), and Lijing Lin (Secretary).

SIAM is the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, if you are not familiar with them, you can find more information on their website.

A little detail about the purpose of the Chapter is in order, our aims are in accordance with SIAM. The objectives of SIAM, as established in the Certificate of Incorporation, are:
• To further the application of mathematics to industry and science.
• To promote basic research in mathematics leading to new methods and techniques useful to industry and science.
• To provide media for the exchange of information and ideas between mathematicians and other technical and scientific personnel.

Our Chapter however has its own specific purposes which are to:
• Increase interaction between students working in applied mathematics and related disciplines, for example, chemistry, physics and and engineering (within and outside of the School of Mathematics).
• Provide opportunities for participants in chapter activities to develop a wide range of skills, for example communication skills when giving talks, and leadership, and teamwork skills in organizing chapter activities.
• Maintain links with industry.
• Develop and foster links and involvement between current, future and past chapter members and participants in activities, to allow sharing of experiences of working in mathematics, awareness of current work and information related to careers and job opportunities. An example activity might be a mathematics contest in modelling to increase involvement of undergraduates.

Our Webmaster, RĂ¼diger has been busy working on our website which is very close to being finished. When it is ready, any current students or staff at The University of Manchester will be able to register to join the Chapter via the site. Stay tuned for updates!

The Committee are currently working on organizing a one day meeting of the Chapter to be held in Manchester during the first half of 2010, exact details to be announced.

Finally we have a twitterfeed where you can get updates about news on the Chapter, as well as information about any seminars or activities that we are aware of that may be of interest to people working in industrial and applied maths at the University of Manchester (and possibly elsewhere!).

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