Scientists and engineers are rational thinkers. You can’t scare them with tales of things that go bump in the night; the demons that lurk within; the monsters that roam the streets, or the creatures that watch us from space. Or can you? This Halloween, we look at the fact behind the fiction.
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 Professor of Applied Mathematics Jitesh Gajjar and ask about his research in Applied Mathematics. Who or what first inspired your interest in…
Meet Dr Christina Charalambous, a statistician with particular interests in the application of statistics in health, who explains her research and what it’s like to work at Manchester.
Get to know Dr Catherine Powell, a Reader in Applied Maths and Numerical Analysis, who discusses her research and tells us what it’s like to work at the University.
We catch up with Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow Dr Faustin Adiceam, asking him about his research in pure mathematics and the early days of his academic career.
Did you know that without mathematicians, the entire Universe would crumble and decay into nothing? At least, that’s according to a classic episode of Doctor Who (our School of Mathematics colleagues are good, but even they’re not holding-together-the-very-fabric-of-the-Universe good). Logopolis is the final instalment in the adventures of the Fourth Doctor, played by the legendary…
In this new 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 Statistics Professor Korbinian Strimmer. We asked him about his work and what he gets up to when he can…
We’re sure you know your dress size, but do you find it changes depending on the shop you visit? Chances are the answer’s ‘yes’. But why is this? And who determines clothes sizing anyway? Well dress sizing appears to be a product of the age we live in; of fast fashion, greater resource and lower…
This Left Handers Awareness Day, we decided to set ourselves what we thought was a straightforward task – finding out what causes one in ten of us to favour our left hand for everything from writing to throwing. Turns out, the task wasn’t so easy after all. There is no one proven reason as to…
