Uppsala SIAM Student Chapter

The Uppsala SIAM Student Chapter is a network for both graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in applied and computational mathematics. If you are interested in joining the Chapter, please contact one of the officers listed below.

Upcoming event

Excursion to SunGard in Stockholm, April 20. SunGard develops software that is used in the financial sector for trading, management and accounting. They will give a presentation of the company, their software development process and other activities.

Regular activities

• SIAM Student Chapter coffee: On the second Thursday each month we meet for coffee in room 2444 at 14.30 (Autumn 2011: September 8, October 13, November 10, December 8)

Officers

President: Magnus Gustafsson
Vice-President: Sofia Eriksson
Treasurer: Erik Lehto
Secretary: Emil Kieri
MSc representative: Amardeep Mehta

Faculty advisor is Stefan Engblom
See also our list of past officers

Rules of Procedure

These are the official rules of procedure of the Uppsala SIAM Student Chapter.

Meeting minutes

• Uppsala SIAM Student Chapter meeting on May 12, 2011
• Uppsala SIAM Student Chapter meeting on February 17, 2011
• Uppsala SIAM Student Chapter meeting on December 7, 2010

Links for PhD students

• A list of interesting summer schools
• Possibilities for travel funding

SIAM links

• Uppsala student chapter at SIAM: Uppsala University Chapter of SIAM
• SIAM student chapters: Current Student SIAM Chapters
• SIAM page for students: http://www.siam.org/students/ (For instance, you can sign up for free SIAM student membership)

Past events

Lunch seminar by David Sumpter on March 7, 2012

David Sumpter at the Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University gave the seminar Building mathematical models of anything and everything. After the seminar we all had lunch together.

Excursion to Forsmark nuclear power plant on November 14, 2011

We got the opportunity to visit the nuclear power plant in Forsmark. This was a full-day trip, including a guided tour in one of the nuclear reactor buildings.

The SIAM student chapter, nuclear reactors are behind us.

Nuclear reactor buildings.

SIAM-seminar, fall 2011: Warwick Tucker

Warwick Tucker at the Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, gave a seminar entitled Validated Numerics - a short introduction to rigorous computations after which we enjoyed a nice lunch together.

Some more info about this event.

Excursion to Comsol on May 19, 2011

A visit to the offices of Comsol, creators of Comsol Multiphysics, with presentations and stimulating discussions.

The SIAM student chapter, Lars Langemyr and Germund Dahlquist.

SIAM Student Chapter inauguration on April 6, 2011

• Bertil Gustafsson: Sweden and Uppsala on the world map of Scientific Computing; how it happened. Bertil Gustafsson is Professor Emeritus in Numerical Analysis at Uppsala University. Bertil was interviewed by Philip J. Davis as a part of his project The history of Numerical Analysis and Scientifc Computing. See also Bertil Gustafsson on Wikipedia
• Heinz-Otto Kreiss: How I became a mathematician. Heinz-Otto Kreiss is Professor Emeritus in Applied Mathematics at UCLA and KTH. Awarded the Von Neumann Lecture in 2003. See also Heinz-Otto Kreiss on Wikipedia

Bertil Gustafsson presents some key factors that made the Division of Scientific Computing at Uppsala University successful.

Heinz-Otto Kreiss, SIAM Student Chapter President Katharina Kormann, Bertil Gustafsson and faculty advisor Stefan Engblom (from left) celebrate a successful initiation of the chapter.

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