Mathematics
A new research programme will develop new ways of extracting useful information from particular types of huge, complex datasets. The programme, run by six universities including Imperial College London, will receive £6.3 million in support. The aim is to achieve a step change in the modelling and analysis of vast banks of ever-growing, often interconnected data relating to customer needs and behaviour and the performance of systems and equipment, for instance.
Is there potentially more to be gained by teaching everyone mathematics well than by teaching the subject to everyone until they reach 18? On 4 January, the Department for Education (DfE) published advance notice of a speech by the Prime Minister to set an ' ambition of maths to 18 '.
With The University of Manchester's strategic investment in fundamental AI research and translation, its strengths in AI fundamental (AI Fun) research are growing. And AI Fun academics in Manchester's Department of Computer Science and Department of Physics and Astronomy recently made a notable presence at the NeurIPS Conference 2022 in New Orleans, USA.
Selected Jobs
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Quantitative Finance (5 posts) University of Oxford
Research Associate in Automatic Theorem Proving (Fixed Term) University of Cambridge
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Multiscale Mechanical Modelling of Batteries University of Oxford
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Decentralised Finance and Digital Economics University of Oxford
Research Fellow in Modelling of Population Processes University of Southampton