Chinese New Year
Student experience 29th March 2019
Chinese New Year isn’t celebrated in my country so it isn’t a big deal, right? WRONG! And oh how wrong I was. Never have I seen a community much less a faculty so dedicated to making their international students feel at home. From the paper lanterns and Chinese symbols to the flyers with pigs on […]
PhD Student Q&A
Student experience 18th March 2019
This is a blog article about being a PhD student in the School of Mathematics at The University of Manchester. One of our PhD students, Elliot McKernon, did a Q&A with Ulla Karhumäki – a Finnish PhD student in her third year – about research, the global mathematical community, and the impact of world politics […]
Meet our academics – Dr Catherine Powell
Meet the School 12th February 2019
In this series of blogs, we chat to the academics you’ll meet, be taught by and work with during your time in the School of Mathematics. In this post, we catch up with Reader in Applied Maths and Numerical Analysis Dr Catherine Powell and ask about her research in Numerical Analysis. Please can you describe […]
Meet our academics – Dr Faustin Adiceam
Meet the School 3rd January 2019
In this series of blogs, we chat to the academics you’ll meet, be taught by and work with during your time in the School of Mathematics. In this post, we catch up with Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow Faustin Adiceam and ask about his research in Pure Mathematics. 1. Please can you describe your research, for […]
Trig or Treat
Student experience 3rd December 2018
This blog post was written by School of Mathematics undergraduate Emily Todd. I feel like I should start this with a sort of formal introduction. I’m Emily and I’m currently second year on the MMath programme. I’m also the Event Secretary on the Mathsoc committee and a Maths PASS leader. You could say that I’m […]
Meet our academics – Prof Kody Law
Meet the School 12th November 2018
In this series of blogs, we chat to the academics you’ll meet, be taught by and work with during your time in the School of Mathematics. In this post, we catch up with Chair in Applied Mathematics, Professor Kody Law. We asked him about his work and what he gets up to when he can […]
Meet our academics – Dr Christopher Frei
Meet the School 10th October 2018
In this series of blogs, we chat to the academics you’ll meet, be taught by and work with during your time in the School of Mathematics. In this post, we catch up with Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, Dr Christopher Frei. We asked him about his work and what he gets up to when he can […]
PhD Student Q&A
Student experience 19th September 2018
This is a blog article about being a PhD student in the School of Mathematics at The University of Manchester. One of our PhD students, Elliot McKernon, did a Q&A with Catherine Bruce – a British PhD student about to enter her third year – about publishing research, giving talks, outreach, and the social aspects […]
Meet our academics – Dr Ian Hall
Meet the School 5th September 2018
In this series of blogs, we chat to the academics you’ll meet, be taught by and work with during your time in the School of Mathematics. In this post, we catch up with Lecturer in Statistics Dr Ian Hall. We asked him about his work and what he gets up to when he can tear […]
First Year of PhD
Student experience 8th August 2018
I am in my first year of PhD, and it is my first time studying abroad. Before that I was educated in Russia in a 6-year long program that was, in essence, a joint masters and bachelors. When starting my time in Manchester, I did not think that mathematical education in universities in different countries […]