Blog for Mathematical Sciences at Plymouth University
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Typically a student will do a research project in the final year of degree in mathematics. This will involve research into a topic, a presentation and writing a report on the research. The very best reports are published in a journal such as the Plymouth Student Scientist.
This year two students have had their work published:
A Comparison of Exact and Heuristic Algorithms to Solve the Travelling Salesman Problem, Matthew Chatting
Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat’s Last, Edward Evans
Marina Logares from the Centre for Mathematical Sciences is part of the organizing committee for a workshop in Argentina. The poster is below.
Dr. James Edwards has been visiting Anton Ilderton in the centre for mathematical sciences at the University of Plymouth.
The pictures below show the two researchers finalizing their exciting new results on plane wave backgrounds in QED, with support from their @royalsociety@NewtonFund grant.
There are two Year 10 taster days running on Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th December.
The aim of the days are to encourage the students to consider mathematics at A level, which, while vital for a maths degree, is also useful for students to have for all STEM disciplines.
There are about 500 students and 50 teachers from 25 schools across Devon and Cornwall signed up over the two days. The days are organized by Dr Jenny Sharp. Further information about mathematical activities for school students, which are run through out the year, can be found here.
Some of the activities at the taster days are:
On Tuesday 27 November 2018, the majority of the second year undergraduate students in mathematics at University of Plymouth visited the Operational Research career open day in Birmingham.
The career day was organized by the Operational Research Society. Operational research is the area of mathematics, which helps businesses make decisions and how to efficiently organize their work. Hence OR is an important sector, which employs a lot of mathematics graduates.
The events at the open day were:
