Month: November 2015
Aire will be holding a workshop on Credit scoring & Applying Data to Enable Financial Inclusion on Wednesday, 25th November 6.30-7.30 pm in room 340, with networking over food and drinks afterwards.
Aire is a FinTech start-up aiming to bring financial inclusion to the masses through improved credit scoring methods. Currently credit scoring is mainly based on credit history, which is definitely not a good indicator of affordability or a person’s credit worthiness. Aire is taking an new approach to it, an ‘out of the box’ thinking, building an algorithm that analyses people’s behavioural patterns to determine if they’ll be able to pay their loans and contracts.
Why join?
1. Learn about credit scoring and career opportunities for PhD students.
2. Talk to industry leaders in using data to show credit worthiness.
3. Learn how data can be applied to solve real world problems
4. Learn how Aire is shifting the paradigm solving problems with data.
No prior knowledge of finance or credit scoring is required. If you are interested in attending, please put your name down here. Food and refreshments will be provided.
The 20th Annual Meeting of the UK and Republic of Ireland Section of SIAM will be hosted by the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge, on January 7, 2016. It will be held at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
This will be an opportunity to celebrate the first 20 years of the UK and Republic of Ireland Section of SIAM and we expect it to be a special occasion. The event will feature high profile keynote and early career speakers, and poster presentations from Student Chapter representatives, as well as a fancy anniversary dinner at Magdalene College.
There is no registration fee, you just have to register!
(…and they would love you to contribute a poster)
Deadline: 18th December 2015.
To register, and for more information, click here.
Thanks to all the participants of the “Improvisation for Scientists” Workshop today, and a massive thank you to presentation trainer and drama educator Justine Jones who taught the workshop for us, bringing techniques from drama into the science world.
Scientists often need to be spontaneous and think outside the box. This was a great taster to see how improvisation skills can help research mathematicians become comfortable speaking and interacting on their feet through playing drama games.
So, in case you don’t know what to expect in an “improvisation for scientists” session, the participants will tell you: A lot of pointing fingers at people, making up stories and throwing balls. What was it about the fire in the kitchen that gave birth to a fractal dragon that turned into eggs and more eggs? Dragon meat with salt or sugar, a controversial debate…
- Improvisation for Scientists. Monday 09 Nov, 1-2 pm, Huxley 341/342. Registration required. Space is limited!
- G-Research Workshop on Quantitative Finance & Modeling Research. Monday 09 Nov, 4-5 pm, Huxley 341. Registration required, please email Lauren Sexton to do so lauren.sexton@gresearch.co.uk (Space is also limited for this!)
- .JAMS– as always every Thursday – YAY!! Open to all (even our non-mathematician friends…)
- Fluids Themed Afternoon Tuesday, 17th November, 12-3 pm, Huxley 139. Open to all.
- Workshop on Credit Scoring for Humanity with Aire. Wednesday, 25th November, 6.30-7.30 pm, Huxley 340. More details coming soon.
- AMMP Day. Wednesday, 16th December, all afternoon. More details coming soon.