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08/05/2026

Here’s more info on our upcoming PhD Alumni Employability Event! Sign up to come along on Monday 25 May at ICMS (5th floor of the Bayes Centre) via the link in our bio.

13/04/2026

The Sustainability Rewards Challenge starts today! 🌱

We’re celebrating the University’s new Regenerative Sustainability Strategy ♻️ Join us for the next 4 weeks in logging positive actions (like recycling, or trying plant-based meals) to earn points for our School and you’ll be entered into a prize draw.

You’ll help the University to be more sustainable and help our School climb the College leaderboard.

Visit our link in bio to download the University’s Sustainability Rewards App and log at least one positive action, and you could win:

· £25 Love2Shop raffle

· £50 Love2Shop voucher (for the top participant in each School)

· £100 Love2Shop voucher (for the overall College winner)

Small shifts add up. Let’s see what CSE can achieve together!

25/11/2025

At our Virtual Postgraduate Open Day, current PhD students shared some insights about their programs and day-to-day. Check out Bao’s reflection on their experience at the university.

04/11/2025

New on the blog: Yoyo’s guide to falling back in love with maths ❤️‍🩹

When you lose passion for your degree, what are the things you can do to find it again? Click the link in our bio to see Yoyo’s tips.

📷 1️⃣: Yoyo spoke to her friend Simran, who studies Philosophy, to see if she was having the same experience. Read the blog to find out what helped them both!

📷 2️⃣: Yoyo also started keeping a maths journal where she researched topics she was curious about.

19/09/2025

Here’s our third and final instalment of the graduation advice postcards. Do you have any advice for students to make the mostnof of their time in Edinburgh?

3: General tips
- “The time flies so enjoy, relax and explore! But take the unique opportunity to meet such a range of people and learn from some incredible wisdom 😊”
- “Enjoy it! A hard day is only 24 hours and you are capable of more than you think!”
- “Shower, touch grass, make friends, societies, have some fun, live, pressure is a made up concept”
- “Get free bread/pastries in MathsHub!!!”
- “Have fun! Life isn’t defined by only linear algebra”
- “Have a laugh xoxo gossip girl”
- “Don’t worry too much about making friends. It’ll happen naturally! With that being said, sometimes you gotta just put yourself out there!”
- “Love what you work at! And be proud of your achievements! Best of luck”

17/09/2025

We’re continuing with the postcards from graduates series and focusing on “Extracurriculars” this time. The first installment was shared in our last post.

2: Extracurricular
- “Try as many things as you can, don’t be afraid to do things and find yourself!!”
- “Find groups and activities outside of uni”
- “Join a society, highly recommend cheerleading”
- “Join MathSoc”
- “Join the Maths Outreach team!!!”
- “Follow your interests as much as you can”
- “Take the 9ams! Join sports and societies”
- “Mingle, make friends, join societies and don’t be afraid to introduce yourself. A maths degree is tough, but a lot less tough with a cohort to help you with assignments and problems you don’t understand!

28/05/2025

Calling all College of Science and Engineering and College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine PhD students!

Join us for an insightful PhD Panel Event hosted by the Student Wellbeing Service.

🗓 Date: 11 June 2025
⏰ Time: 11:15 – 13:00
📍 Location: Kings Buildings, Murchison House, Room 1.19

Find out more and register via the link in our bio.

10/12/2024

Recruitment for the E5 DTP (Edinburgh Earth, Ecology and Environment Engagement Doctoral Training Partnership) 2025 cohort has now opened.

Please check out the projects you are interested in via the links below. For general information about applying and requirements, see the dedicated webpage: https://edin.ac/3CZZ8rl

- 'Improving projections of Antarctic ice loss through Physics-Informed Machine Learning': https://edin.ac/4gmoU7H
- 'Measuring the unmeasurable? Understanding uncertainty in biodiversity metrics': https://edin.ac/3AZZptW
- 'Modelling stochastic emergence of antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations': https://edin.ac/3VoQ5GS
- 'Stochastic generation of realistic UK rainfall extremes via generative AI': https://edin.ac/3Vjfxxy
- 'Probabilistic forecasting of phenological events in space and time': https://edin.ac/4ilOmvS
- 'Variability in ocean heat transport toward the East Antarctic Ice Sheet': https://edin.ac/3B2aMl7
- 'Forecasting Catastrophic Failure in Mining': https://edin.ac/49CV6l6
- 'Can Radar data be used to estimate changes in the intensity of extreme precipitation events?': https://edin.ac/3ZICa0S

04/11/2024

Our annual Operational Research Challenge returns for its 4th year! This year, we are collaborating with Public Health Scotland to derive a data-driven optimisation strategy to determine the optimal design of catchment areas for emergency public healthcare facilities.

Operational Research (OR) is about using mathematics to help decision makers find better solutions for complex real-world problems. Its techniques are applied daily to problems in healthcare, transportation, energy, and many other areas. If you are interested in learning more about OR, and want to investigate a real-world problem, this challenge is for you!

Prizes for winners and runners-up include cash prizes and a paid summer internship. Registration closes 8th of November 2024.

For more information and to register, check out our webpage: https://edin.ac/46mukuh

30/10/2024

Join us for the Annual Students Lecture for Maths and Physics 2024 with Professor Samuli Siltanen, Professor of Industrial Mathematics at the University of Helsinki! 🌍

Abstract: In the 1970’s, a new X-ray based innovation was introduced. Tomography, or slice imaging, revealed the inner structure of a patient point by point as a three-dimensional map of tissues. This opened up a new world for doctors as they could do precise diagnosing based on these "CAT-scans.” Tomography is based on recording X-ray images of the patient along many directions, and then using mathematics in a clever way for combining the information into a 3D image. This talk explains that process in simple terms. An important research topic in modern mathematics is to look for a way to do tomographic imaging with the least possible amount of radiation dose to the patient. Or sometimes to compensate for incomplete measurements caused by restrictions in the imaging arrangement. This is based on a process called regularisation, also illustrated in the talk in an easy-to-understand way. Also: there is a fun quiz revealing natural tomographers among the audience.

Get ready to discover The Magic of Math: Three-dimensional X-ray Vision and how tomography uses math to reveal what our eyes can’t see. 🔬

This event is open to all students 💫 Find out more: https://edin.ac/48p380d

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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