Scientific organisers
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Apala Majumdar , University of Strathclyde
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Angela Mihai, Cardiff University
About:
RWAM 2025 is 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 will follow the same format with keynote lectures, contributed talks, poster session, round-table discussions, working groups and networking time. The objectives of RWAM 2025 remain 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 limit to, a mentoring scheme, new scientific collaborations, follow-up seminar invitations along with increased visibility for all participants, and especially for early career researchers.
Plenary speakers
Julia Gog, University of Cambridge - From maths to policy: a COVID-19 story
Sara Jabbari, University of Birmingham - Mathematical modelling to understand microbial behaviour and advance novel treatments for bacterial infections
Beatrice Pelloni, Heriot-Watt University - Dispersive PDES meet discontinuities
Jennifer Scott, University of Reading & STC Rutherford Appleton Lab - Sparsity: the key to tackling large-scale least squares problems
Participation
Invited participants were emailed invitations by ICMS in early August. The deadline to apply to attend the retreat has passed and all applicants have been notified of the decisions of the scientific organisers. Successful participants will be required to pay a 150.00 GBP registration fee.
Programme:
| MONDAY 13 JANUARY | |||
| 9.00-9.50 | Registration and refreshments | ||
| 9.50-10.00 | Welcome and housekeeping | ||
| 10.00 | Plenary Talk: Julia Gog, University of Cambridge | From maths to policy: a COVID-19 story | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Refreshments | ||
| 11.30-11.50 | Contributed talks session: Bethany Heath, University of Cambridge | Evaluating testing policies for managing emerging epidemics in resource-constrained settings | |
| 11.50-12.10 | Contributed talks session: Qiyao (Alice) Peng , Lancaster University | Computationally efficient simulation of cells that release diffusing compounds in their environment | |
| 12.10-12.30 | Contributed talks session: Yuan Yin , University of Oxford | The interaction between cells and the extracellular matrix | |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch | ||
| 14.00-15.30 | Roundtable Session: Karen Meyer & Ellen Luckins, University of Dundee & University of Warwick | Challenges and Opportunities for ECRs | |
| 15.30-16.00 | Refreshments | ||
| 16.00-16.20 | Contributed talks session: Shilpa Dutta , University of Wuerzburg | Stray field effect in ferronematic thin film | |
| 16.20-16.40 | Contributed talks session: Zoe Godard, University of Oxford | Cyclic loading of a heterogeneous non-linear poroelastic material | |
| 16.40-17.00 | Invited presentation: Laura Currie & Hannah D'Ambrosio, Durham University & University of Glasgow | Review of RWAM Mentor-Mentee Scheme | |
| 17.00-18.00 | Welcome reception, hosted at ICMS | ||
| TUESDAY 14 JANUARY | |||
| 10.00-11.00 | Plenary talk: Jennifer Scott, University of Reading & STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | Sparsity: the key to tackling large-scale least squares problems | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Refreshments | ||
| 11.30-11.50 | Contributed talks session: Maike Meier , STFC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | Randomized algorithms for least squares problems: How to ensure speed and accuracy? | |
| 11.50-12.10 | 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 | |
| 12.10-12.30 | Contributed talks session: tbc | tbc | |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch | ||
| 14.00-15.30 | Roundtable session: Dawn Geatches & Caroline Chibelushi, Innovate UK Business Connect | Knowledge Exchange in Mathematics | |
| 15.30-16.00 | Refreshments | ||
| 16.00-16.20 | Contributed talks session: Luisa Estrada, University of Warwick | PAC learning social networks via threshold-based opinion dynamics | |
| 16.20-16.40 | Contributed talks session: Alexandra Zverovich, Cardiff University | Invariance under rescaling and unconstrained quadratic programming | |
| 16.40-17.00 | Contributed talks session: Jiahua Jiang, University of Birmingham | Hybrid projection methods for solution decomposition in large-scale Bayesian inverse problems | |
| WEDNESDAY 15 JANUARY | |||
| 10.00-11.00 | Plenary talk: Beatrice Pelloni , Heriot-Watt University | Dispersive PDEs meet discontinuities | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Refreshments | ||
| 11.30-11.50 | Contributed talks session: Kasturi Shah, University of Cambridge | Fluid dynamics of wildfire smoke-filled vortices in the stratosphere | |
| 11.50-12.10 | Contributed talks session: Courteney Hirst, University College London | Erosion of surfaces by trapped vortices | |
| 12.10-12.30 | Contributed talks session: Ashleigh Hutchinson, University of Manchester | The Saffman-Taylor instability in shear-thinning fluids | |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch | ||
| 14.00-15.30 | Laura Wadkin, Newcastle University | EDI in Mathematics | |
| 15.30-16.00 | Refreshments | ||
| 16.00-17.30 | Poster session and networking time | ||
| THURSDAY 16 JANUARY | |||
| 10.00-11.00 | Plenary talk: Sara Jabbari, University of Birmingham | Mathematical modelling to understand microbial behaviour and advance novel treatments for bacterial infections | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Refreshments | ||
| 11.30-11.50 | Contributed talks session: Irena Kyza, University of St Andrews | An energy preserving method for the Schrodinger-Poisson system | |
| 11.50-12.10 | 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 | |
| 12.10-12.30 | Contributed talks session: Nina Dekoninck Bruhin, University of Cambridge | Surface-based analysis of MRIs for prediction of cognitive impairments | |
| 12.30-12.50 | Contributed talks session: Nneka Umeorah, Cardiff University | Feed-forward neural network and optimisation for exotic option pricing | |
| 12.50-14.00 | Lunch | ||
| 14.00-15.30 | Roundtable session: Catherine Powell, University of Manchester | Career progression in academia: from lecturer to professor | |
| 15.30-16.00 | Refreshments | ||
| 16.00-17.00 | Margaret Watson, University of Strathclyde | Book review: Women in Academia: Achieving our Potential | |
| 19.00 | Dinner | ||
| FRIDAY 17 JANUARY | |||
| 10.00-10.20 | Contributed talks session:Shen Hong, University of Dundee | Stability analysis of laminar flows for the asymmetric case | |
| 10.20-10.40 | Charlotte Charlton, University of Manchester | Neutral inclusions and elastic wave transparency in particulate composites | |
| 10.40-11.00 | 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 | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Refreshments | ||
| 11.30-11.50 | Contributed talks session:Thuy Duong Dang, University College London | Three-dimensional melting of wall mounted ice in uniform shear flow | |
| 11.50-12.10 | Contributed talks session: Laura Miller, University of Strathclyde | Homogenized modelling of the electro-mechanical behaviour of a vascularized poroelastic composite representing the myocardium | |
| 12.10-13.00 | Apala Majumdar, University of Strathclyde | Summary session | |
| 13.00 | Packed lunch and end of workshop |