1. SMSTC SEMINAR SERIES Jesús Martínez García University of Edinburgh J.Martinez-Garcia@sms.ed.ac.uk

2. SMSTC Seminar Series For 1 st year PhD Students by 1 st year PhD Students Originally inspired in Cambridge Part III Seminar Series. (40 talks in 3 days. 200 attendants). Stream-based presentations 20-30 minutes talk/presentation + 10 minutes question time. Opportunity for PhD students to practise their presentation skills

3. More advantages! Show/share what you learnt in your “25%” of the time outside from lectures Learn easily what takes longer to learn from a dry book (or at least an insight) Share knowledge with people who probably have similar problems (2 nd /3 rd years probably know about it already). A way to improve communication within maths PhD students within Scotland

4. Streams / Theme Groups Algebra Analysis and PDEs Applied Mathematical methods Geometry and Topology Mathematical Models Probability and Statistics (prospectively merged) Mathematical physics (QFT, String theory...) Flexiblility depending on people interests

5. Organisation To be held in the Jan/Feb break Lectures for 2/4 days on each of the subjects Training on how to do a MATHEMATICAL presentation available 1 stream coordinator (volunteer now! Good for CV!) Each speaker sends an abstract to the coordinator and he merges, comments and spreads the world (Hopefully) participation certificates available

6. E-mail me!! Jesús Martínez García University of Edinburgh J.Martinez-Garcia@sms.ed.ac.uk