Retreat for Women in Applied Mathematics 2025

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Retreat for Women in Applied Mathematics 2025

 13 - 17 Jan 2025

in person at ICMS, Bayes Centre, Edinburgh

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Scientific organisers

  • Apala Majumdar , University of Strathclyde
  • Angela Mihai, Cardiff University

About:

RWAM 2025 was a five-day retreat for female applied mathematicians (or people who identify as female) from all career stages (PhD, postdoc, junior or senior faculty), generally working in the field of Mathematical Modelling and Applications.  Building on the successes of RWAM 2023 and 2024, the 2025 event followed the same format with keynote lectures, contributed talks, a poster session, round-table discussions, working groups and networking time. The objectives of RWAM 2025 remained the same as those of RWAM 2023 and 2024, namely, to create a sense of community and a unified forum for sharing information about scientific opportunities, funding, teaching and career progression. Prior successes include, but are not limited to, a mentoring scheme, new scientific collaborations, follow-up seminar invitations along with increased visibility for all participants, and especially for early career researchers.

 

Programme:

MONDAY 13 JANUARY
Registration and refreshments
Welcome and housekeeping
Plenary Talk: Julia Gog, University of Cambridge From maths to policy: a COVID-19 story
Refreshments
Contributed talks session: Bethany Heath, University of Cambridge Evaluating testing policies for managing emerging epidemics in resource-constrained settings
Contributed talks session: Qiyao (Alice) Peng , Lancaster University Computationally efficient simulation of cells that release diffusing compounds in their environment
Contributed talks session: Yuan Yin , University of Oxford The interaction between cells and the extracellular matrix
Lunch
Roundtable Session: Ellen Luckins, University of Warwick Challenges and Opportunities for ECRs
Refreshments
Contributed talks session: Shilpa Dutta , University of Wuerzburg Stray field effect in ferronematic thin film
Contributed talks session: Zoe Godard, University of Oxford Cyclic loading of a heterogeneous non-linear poroelastic material
Invited presentation: Laura Currie & Hannah D'Ambrosio, Durham University & University of Glasgow Review of RWAM Mentor-Mentee Scheme
Welcome reception, hosted at ICMS
TUESDAY 14 JANUARY
Plenary talk: Jennifer Scott, University of Reading & STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Sparsity: the key to tackling large-scale least squares problems
Refreshments
Contributed talks session: Maike Meier , STFC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Randomized algorithms for least squares problems: How to ensure speed and accuracy?
Contributed talks session: Nneka Umeorah, Cardiff University Feed-forward neural network and optimisation for exotic option pricing
Lunch
Roundtable session: Dawn Geatches & Caroline Chibelushi, Innovate UK Business Connect Knowledge Exchange in Mathematics
Refreshments
Contributed talks session: Luisa Estrada, University of Warwick PAC learning social networks via threshold-based opinion dynamics
Contributed talks session: Alexandra Zverovich, Cardiff University Invariance under rescaling and unconstrained quadratic programming
Contributed talks session: Jiahua Jiang, University of Birmingham Hybrid projection methods for solution decomposition in large-scale Bayesian inverse problems
WEDNESDAY 15 JANUARY
Plenary talk: Beatrice Pelloni , Heriot-Watt University Dispersive PDEs meet discontinuities
Refreshments
Contributed talks session: Kasturi Shah, University of Cambridge Fluid dynamics of wildfire smoke-filled vortices in the stratosphere
Contributed talks session: Courteney Hirst, University College London Erosion of surfaces by trapped vortices
Contributed talks session: Ashleigh Hutchinson, University of Manchester The Saffman-Taylor instability in shear-thinning fluids
Lunch
Laura Wadkin, Newcastle University EDI in Mathematics
Refreshments
Poster session and networking time
THURSDAY 16 JANUARY
Plenary talk: Sara Jabbari, University of Birmingham Mathematical modelling to understand microbial behaviour and advance novel treatments for bacterial infections
Refreshments
Contributed talks session: Irena Kyza, University of St Andrews An energy preserving method for the Schrodinger-Poisson system
Contributed talks session: Eliane Raissa Fankem, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences On the nonlinear thermomechanical analysis of a stayed-beam having fractional viscoelastic properties in complex environment
Contributed talks session: Nina Dekoninck Bruhin, University of Cambridge Surface-based analysis of MRIs for prediction of cognitive impairments
Contributed talks session: Minhui Zhou, University of Strathclyde Improvement of mass conservation in the MINRES solution of saddle-point systems with large right-hand sides
Lunch
Roundtable session: Catherine Powell, University of Manchester Career progression in academia: from lecturer to professor
Refreshments
Margaret Watson, University of Strathclyde Book review: Women in Academia: Achieving our Potential
Dinner
FRIDAY 17 JANUARY
Contributed talks session:Shen Hong, University of Dundee Stability analysis of laminar flows for the asymmetric case
Charlotte Charlton, University of Manchester Neutral inclusions and elastic wave transparency in particulate composites
Contributed talks session: Sarah Ferguson Briggs, Imperial College London How the addition of a rod along the axis of a core-annular flow changes the linear stability in both magnetic and non-magnetic regimes
Refreshments
Contributed talks session:Thuy Duong Dang, University College London Three-dimensional melting of wall mounted ice in uniform shear flow
Contributed talks session: Laura Miller, University of Strathclyde Homogenized modelling of the electro-mechanical behaviour of a vascularized poroelastic composite representing the myocardium
Apala Majumdar, University of Strathclyde Summary session
Packed lunch and end of workshop