The Edinburgh Mathematical Society (EMS) was founded in 1883 and has since become firmly established as the principal society for the Mathematical Sciences community in Scotland.
Deconstructing beta: Using mathematical models to understand disease transmission and control – (Stirling) In this talk we will look at mathematical models of infectious diseases and how we model disease transmission and hence understand disease control for a series of case studies. Starting with the simple models that you will be familiar with since covid and ending with an example […]
Prof. Chris Dent, Dr Amy Wilson (The University of Edinburgh) and Dr Stan Zachary (Heriot-Watt University) The prize was awarded for the recipients’ collaboration supporting National Grid with methodology for assessment of the risk of electricity supply shortfalls in Great Britain and recommending capacity to mitigate this risk; and for wider contributions to development of collaboration between the energy sector […]
Pattern Formation Through Spatial Segregation
Dr Leonardo Tolomeo (The University of Edinburgh) The EMS PhD Thesis Prize for 2021 was awarded to Dr Leonardo Tolomeo of the Mathematisches Institut der Universität Bonn (PhD, University of Edinburgh) for his outstanding thesis ‘Stochastic dispersive PDEs with additive space-time white noise’.
Dr Ben Davison (The University of Edinburgh) The Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize for 2021 has been awarded to Dr Ben Davison of The University of Edinburgh in recognition of his outstanding research achievements in the fields of enumerative counting invariants in algebraic geometry and non-commutative algebra.
Prof. Marian Scott OBE (University of Glasgow) and Prof. Andrew Cairns (Heriot-Watt University) Marian Scott is Professor of environmental Statistics at the University of Glasgow. She is an applied statistician with broad research interests. Her current projects span archaeology and radiocarbon dating, measuring animal welfare and quality of life and more widely, the environment, whether that be air pollution and […]
From Order to Chaos and Chaos to Order in Fluid Flows The eleven year solar activity cycle is a remarkable example of regular behaviour emerging from an extremely turbulent system. The jets on Jupiter sit unmoving on a sea of turbulent eddies. Astrophysical phenomena often display organisation on spatial and temporal scales much larger than the turbulent processes that drive […]