NACTOR (A National Taught Course Centre in Operational Research)
NATCOR is a collaboration between six universities to develop and deliver taught courses in Operational Research (OR), mainly intended for PhD students in their first two years of doctoral study.

The initiative to develop such taught course provision came from the EPSRC and is part of a drive to deepen and broaden PhD studies in the UK across the mathematical sciences.

NATCOR will offer the following courses during 2009/10:

Heuristics and Approximation Algorithms University of Nottingham 12 – 16 April 2010

Convex Optimisation Brunel University 28 June – 2 July 2010

NATCOR has resources to support attendance at its courses by students whose doctoral work is supported by EPSRC.

For full details of each course and registration, visit: www.natcor.ac.uk

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more maths grads
"more maths grads" is a three-year £3.3 million programme funded by HEFCE, designed to increase and widen participation in undergraduate degrees in the mathematical sciences. It will operate through four key themes: increasing awareness of career opportunities; helping school students to find more enjoyment and fulfilment in studying mathematics; increasing and developing teachers' enjoyment and confidence in mathematics; and development of aspects of the higher education curriculum. It will do all this in three areas of the country for the three years, with a view to national coverage later.

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