drvinceknight / amwoss

Applied mathematics problems with Open Source Software: Operational Research with Python and R.
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Biographies #124

Closed drvinceknight closed 3 years ago

drvinceknight commented 3 years ago

Biographies: Along with the final blurb, could you also please provide your biographies in around 200 words each.

geraintpalmer commented 3 years ago

Geraint Palmer is a Welsh Medium Lecturer at Cardiff University in the School of Mathematics. He is a member of the operational research group where his research interests are in simulation and probabilistic modelling, in particular applying these to model public services such as healthcare systems. He uses open source software in all aspects of his reseach: he is a maintainer of Ciw an open source Python library for discrete event simulation, and was the OR Society's Doctoral Award in 2018. Geraint is also a fellow of the sustainable software institute and has presented at a number of international conferences on the subject of best practice of scientific computing, and regularly teaches programming and runs coding workshops for people of all ages.

drvinceknight commented 3 years ago

and was the OR Society

and won the OR Society?

drvinceknight commented 3 years ago

Vince Knight is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University in the School of Mathematics. His research interests are in emergent behaviour, probabilistic modelling, applications in healthcare and pedagogy. He maintains a number of open source research software projects, is a trustee of the UK Python association, is an editor for the Journal of Open Source Software, was awarded the 2017 John Pinner award for contribution to the Python community and is a fellow of the Sustainable Software Institute. He regularly wins awards for his teaching in the School of Mathematics and does not only speak at conferences around the world but continues to organise conferences as well to bring the power of open source software to as many people as possible.

geraintpalmer commented 3 years ago

and was the OR Society

and won the OR Society?

No no, I was the whole OR Society, don't you remember? :p

drvinceknight commented 3 years ago

😆

drvinceknight commented 3 years ago

Should we put these bios in the README.md in #134 ?