Oxford SIAM Student Chapter
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
About Us
The Oxford Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Student Chapter was founded in January 2008 by a small group of enthusiastic students. We have since grown to incorporate over 180 members including undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and faculty.
Our goals include:
- Providing a forum in which students can share their interest in applied mathematics and scientific computing.
- Organising internal seminars and workshops for researchers to present their work, and arranging social functions in Oxford at which members can interact in an informal setting.
- Engaging Oxford students in SIAM's international community through the conferences, competitions, prizes and other opportunities offered by SIAM.
- Establishing links with industrial partners.
Events
- The first event of the new academic year will take place on Friday of 1st Week (16th October). This will be an introductory/welcome back social in the Maths Institue Common Room. There will be plenty of opportunity to catch up with old Chapter members, hear about the events we have planned for this year and sign up any friends who may be interested in joining the Chapter. Free drinks, nibbles and sparkling mathematical chat guaranteed.
- The 3rd Annual Oxford SIAM Student Chapter Conference will take place on 9th February 2010. Please check the Conference section of the website for more details.
- A drinks reception, featuring a short talk by Professor Andrew Fowler entitled "Guinness, roll waves, champagne and volcanoes", took place in Dartington House on Friday 22nd May 2009. Photos of the event can be found here.
- The highly successful 2nd Annual Oxford SIAM Student Chapter Conference, kindly sponsored by Winton Capital, was held on Tuesday 3rd February 2009 at Somerville College, Oxford. Click here for the conference website.
- 'Pizza and PDEs' was an exciting interactive event hosted by Nick Trefethen on 17th November 2008. Every participant had a workstation from which they could use the PDE solver that Nick had written to either play with the parameters of some prewritten PDEs or investigate their own. Pictures are available here. The codes can be found here.
- The 1st Oxford SIAM Student Chapter Conference was held on 25th April 2008 and was kindly sponsored by Schlumberger. It was a very successful event! See here for more details.
How to join the Student Chapter
Membership of the Oxford SIAM Student Chapter is open to all those associated with the University of Oxford, including undergraduates, postgraduates, postdocs and faculty of any University department.
Join the Oxford SIAM Student Chapter here.
If you wish to receive monthly SIAM newsletters, and enjoy various discounts and other benefits, click here to join SIAM itself as a student member, completely free.
Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Committee
The Oxford SIAM Student Chapter is run by a committee of graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Oxford, with support from a Faculty Advisor.
President: Thomas Woolley
Vice-President: Kit Yates
Treasurer: Trevor Wood
Secretary: Bernhard Langwallner
IT Officer: Aaron Smith
Faculty Advisor: Mason Porter
If you are interested in being involved in the running of the Chapter please contact us.
A list of past committee members can be found here.
Supported by Winton Capital Management
Website: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/~siamstudentchapter
Email: siamsc@maths.ox.ac.uk
SIAM website: www.siam.org
The Oxford SIAM Student Chapter is supported by the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM) at the Mathematical Institute and the Numerical Analysis Group at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory.