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Highlights from "Meet the Mathematicians" at the University of Nottingham.
Meet the Mathematicians 2009
Ask most school students to describe a typical mathematician and you are likely to receive the same clichéd response; geeky, grey-haired man who lacks social skills and has no personal life outside maths. Surprisingly, this is not always the case! In order to correct such misconceptions, in April 2009 students from around the UK were invited to a Meet the Mathematicians (MtM) event with the School of Mathematical Sciences and supported by funding from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC).
There were three main aims for the event.
The organisers wanted to convey that Mathematics is a living and evolving subject, each day being applied to the description and understanding of the physical, biological, commercial, digital and social universes around us.
The MtM day was designed to help to provide a clearer insight into what the experience of studying Mathematics at university might be like, beyond the usual UCAS day visit. University staff, researchers and postgraduate students were on hand to help with a programme of activities meet with students to explain what they did and why.
The day gave a glimpse of life after a Mathematics degree with examples of professionals using the subject within their careers.
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University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university in the city of Nottingham, England, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The university was founded in 1881, and is a member of the Russell Group, the Sutton Trust 13, Universitas 21, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, and the European University Association. Source:
Wikipedia, University of Nottingham.
Meet the Mathematicians 2010
Date: 7th April 2010, 1030-1700
Venue: Royal
Society of Edinburgh
Hosted by: Maxwell
Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
Universities of Edinburgh and Heriot
Watt,
as part of Maths 2010.
Open to:
S5/S6, Year 12/13
Cost:
Free!
Talks by:
L Madhevan (Harvard)
Christina Cobbold (Glasgow)
Paul Jowitt (Heriot Watt)
Tim Johnson (Heriot Watt)
The MtM event is organised as part of the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC) the largest and most prestigious general meeting of academic researchers in applied mathematics in the UK.
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Meet the Mathematicians
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