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PhD Interviews at St Andrews in CS

We have had an outstanding pool of applicants for our 600th Anniversary Scholarships to do a PhD in Computer Science.  This means that in the coming weeks we will be conducting many interviews with potential PhD students.  If you are one of those, or if you are just interested in what our interviews are like, PhD Interviews at St Andrews in CS

Seminar by Leo Liberti on “Symmetry in Mathematical Programming”, 19th Nov, 11am

Leo Liberti, the director of the Optimisation and Sustainable Development Chair at Ecole Polytechnique, will be giving a seminar on Monday 19th November, 2012, at 11am-12, in Jack Cole 1.33a. Symmetry in Mathematical Programming Abstract: When solving Mathematical Programming (MP) problems (be they linear or nonlinear, continuous or mixed-integer) using Branch-and-Bound (BB), the presence of Seminar by Leo Liberti on “Symmetry in Mathematical Programming”, 19th Nov, 11am

Four Geeks and an Entrepreneur

We were privileged today to hear three lectures from Monty Widenius, main author of the MySQL database system.   His main focus was on entrepreneurship and being an entrepreneur while giving away source code on an open source basis. Three staff members from St Andrews are pictured with Monty before the first lecture, in St Four Geeks and an Entrepreneur

Distinguished Lecture Series: MySQL and Open Source Business, by Monty Widenius

Monty Widenius delivered the Semester 1 Distinguished Lecture Series on Monday 15th October 2012, from 10am to 3.30pm, in Upper College Hall. Monty is CEO & CTO at Monty Program Ab, and is perhaps best known as founder of MySQL, the world’s most used open source. Monty delivered three lectures on MySQL and Open Source Distinguished Lecture Series: MySQL and Open Source Business, by Monty Widenius

Computer Science as Stand-up Comedy

Chris Jefferson, postdoctoral researcher in the School of Computer Science, did a short stretch as a stand-up comedian for Bright Club Dundee.   His act talked about humour, dating and gaming, all from a computer scientist’s perspective.   The piece is now on youtube.