EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Statistical Applied Mathematics at Bath SAMBa Newsletter Issue 15, December 2019

Recognion of Maths at Bath’s track record in promong gender equality

Advance HE’s Athena SWAN Charter was established in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women in STEM academia and our home department of Mathemacal Sciences has gained a Silver Award celebrang our good pracce in gender equality. Tim Rogers, who led the applicaon, said: “I am thrilled that our hard work over many years has been recognised. We now have a fresh impetus to make Maths at Bath as inclusive and diverse as possible.” In August, we delivered our first internaonal Achievements over the last five years include: Integrave Think Tank in Guanajuato, Mexico. ITTs Ÿ Doubling the total number of female academic staff have been a SAMBa flagship acvity since our Ÿ Increasing the proporon of female PhD students from 20% incepon. They bring together students, to 32% academics and external partners to reformulate Ÿ Appoinng the first two female professors broad challenges into a mathemacal queson that could form the foundaon of a research project. The ITT built on the long-standing BUC Coming up ... iniave developed between Bath, UNAM and CIMAT. The partners were Samsung, CENAPRED 27 - 31 Jan ITT11 (with BT and CPPM) (the Mexican naonal disasters agency) and CNB 3 - 5 Feb Beyond the car: Future mobility in Bath (the government agency seeking people who have 19 Feb “Where’s the Maths?” been forcibly disappeared). 60 PhD students and March 2020 Data Science training work shop in Paraguay academic researchers parcipated, including 8 of 8 - 12 Jun ITT12 (with NHS) our students who led discussion groups and 22ⁿ - 27 Jun Global Challenges in Mongolia workshop mentored those new to the ITT model. 6 - 8 Jul 4 SAMBa conference

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Congratulaons to… Where are they now? Jack Beeridge, Aoibheann Brady, Federico Ma Durey, cohort 1, finished SAMBa August 2018 Cornalba, Emma Horton, Amy Middleton, What are you doing now? Sam Moore, and Owen Pembery, who I’m an Instructor of Applied Mathemacs at MIT. passed PhD vivas. What are you enjoying the most about it? Euan Spence, awarded the John Todd prize I’m enjoying working with people who have similar by the Oberwolfach Foundaon. research interests to me and learning new skills! Chris Budd, who won the American What are you planning to do next? Mathemacal Society’s Communicaons If I feel ready, I will apply for faculty posions in the UK/US. award. What do you miss most about SAMBa? Apala Majumdar who won an FDM The cross-collaboraon between mathemacal disciplines. Everywoman in Technology award. What was the most fun thing you did whilst in Bath? Punng on the Avon – which is even more fun when the co-pilot can’t steer! Monica Musso on securing EPSRC funding to explore concentraon phenomena in nonlinear PDEs. We’ve said goodbye to Jess Ohren, who joined the Jonathan Bartle for an MRC grant on new AAPS CDT. Jess delivered a huge amount for clinical trial esmands: from definion to SAMBa whilst she was with us, for which we are very esmaon. grateful. Our new Coordinator is Helena Lake, who is Margaret Duff, Tom Finn, Kate Powers, already seling in to the controlled chaos of SAMBa! Malena Sabate Landman, and Lizhi Zhang, each awarded funding from Bath Doctoral A new University Centre for Mathemacs and Algorithms for Data (MAD) College for research trips. has launched. It brings together researchers from Mathemacal Sciences All of cohort 5, who passed their MRes year. and Computer Science, working at the intersecon of stascs, machine learning and numerical analysis.

Our collaboraon with government agencies in Paraguay connues, thanks to funding from the World Bank. Training workshops on data science and stascs will take place in 2020, with the ministries of health and educaon. Essenal to the collaboraon is the Office for Naonal Stascs Data Science Campus who have a long-standing collaboraon with SAMBa. In September we visited the Instuto Desarrollo to scope the workshops, meet the ministries, and engage with local media!

Back in 2014, Sam Moore, one of our first cohort of SAMBa students was involved in a road accident in which he broke his neck. Less than a year later, Sam and his wheels re-joined SAMBa, and despite the hills, he can oen be seen handcycling round the roads of Bath. Having handed in his thesis, Sam took off to Kenya in October to cycle 400km across the country, including climbing 2245 metre mountains. Sam was raising money for Regain who support tetraplegics into sport.

We’ve been vising: Adastral Park · Alan Turing Instute · CIMAT · Central European University · Centre for Mathemacal Modelling (Sanago) · Cummins Turbo Technologies · ETH (Zurich) · Emory University · HSBC · Hausdorff Instute · Imperial College London · Instute of Physics · Instuto Desarrollo · Isaac Newton Instute · Lunteren · Mango · Max-Planck-Instut für Mathemak in den Naturwissenschaen · Naonal University of Mongolia · Playa del Carmen · Ponficia Universidad Católica de Chile · Pythéas Research Instute · Roma Tre University · UNAM · Unicef (Mongolia) · University College London · University of Bremen · University of Bristol · University of Cambridge · University of Plymouth · University of Warwick

For more details on these stories and to see how you can get involved, visit the SAMBa website: go.bath.ac.uk/samba

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