We have a number of very strong links with academic institutions internationally. These links allow our students and academic staff to engage with high quality research in statistical applied mathematics around the world.
A strong international outlook is core to the SAMBa vision and we have built strong links with international academic partners.
SAMBa students and staff have the opportunity to engage with research activity with overseas partners and to participate in workshops, schools and research visits.
SAMBa also runs special international events, such as overseas Integrative Think Tanks (ITTs) and capacity building workshops, that deliver additional training and experience for our cohort of postgraduate researchers.
We also work closely with staff from other academic departments in the University of Bath who bring their knowledge and expertise to ITTs, collaborative research projects and supervisory teams.
Overall, the workshop has been a fascinating new experience. Typically, I swoop in right in the middle of things - after the questionnaires are designed but before the results are examined. This time, I found myself pondering what problems or questions Mongolians were aiming to tackle, rather than which fancy mathematical models we can employ and how we can exploit data to get answers.
Chiara Boetti, SAMBa cohort 9 UNICEF workshop in Mongolia 2024
Here, we were trying to implement different methods to improve image reconstructions based on light intensity measurements. This was an exciting trip through the theory of regularisers, Gaussian filters and joint optimisation, and was something I would never have studied if I wasn’t accepted onto the ITT.
Christian Jones, cohort 8 ITT in Brazil 2023
I worked on a project with TARA-CEODOS, a Chile-based consortium who have conducted a series of ocean expeditions collecting extensive data about the marine ecosystem. Our challenge involved developing statistical tools for detecting patterns in this data, with a particular focus on the interplay between genetic diversity and environmental conditions.
Matthew Pawley, cohort 7 ITT in Chile 2022
