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National Grid funding for Chris Dent and Gabi Hegerl
Chris Dent, in collaboration with Gabi Hegerl (School of GeoSciences) have been awarded funding from National Grid for their project "Thermal: Transmission Heat Effects, Resilience Measures to manage Asset Lifecycles". ...
British Academy Global Professorship
Karine Chemla has been awarded a British Academy Global Professorship and will join the School later this year to investigate "Rethinking the History of Mathematical Symbolism". We look forward to welcoming her to Edi ...
EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Small Grants Success
The School has received three awards from the EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Small Grants which funds original research projects or feasibility research studies. Congratulations to: Vanya Cheltsov - "K-stable Fano 3-folds" Hiro ...
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Energy System Decarbonization - Workshop Insights
The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in Edinburgh hosted a workshop exploring the role artificial intelligence (AI) could play in helping manage low-emission energy systems. This workshop took place as part ...
ASA DataFest 2024 Student Competition at Edinburgh
The American Statistical Association DataFest is an annual data analysis competition where teams of up to five undergraduate students work on analysing a surprise dataset provided by the ASA that is large and complex. On 22-24 ...
HiGHS in MATLAB
With its R2024a release (20/03/24) MATLAB now uses HiGHS as the default linear programming (LP) and mixed-integer programming (MIP) solvers. Congratulations to the HiGHS team for this latest development! HiGHS has been developed ...
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Algebra, Geometry and Quantum Fields announced
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Algebra, Geometry and Quantum Fields (AGQ), brings together researchers in fundamental mathematics and physics from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Heriot-Watt University. Together ...
Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund projects announced
Energy regulator Ofgem and Innovate UK have announced a £5.8 million package to fund feasibility studies for 44 new energy projects as round three of the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) gets underway. We are delighted ...
OR Challenge 2024 winners announced
This year, our OR Challenge was run in partnership with Police Scotland, who proposed a resource allocation problem for the city of Glasgow. Participants were tasked with determining the optimal allocation of police officers to ...
Piscopia Initiative win STEMinist Student Society of the Year 2024
Congratulations to the Piscopia Initiative, who were awarded the STEMinist Student Society of the Year 2024 award by Equate Scotland last week! The award recognises the work they have been doing to create a network of women and ...
