People

Node representatives

This list shows the main MAGIC contact in each member university.

University Rep Photo
Birmingham logo Professor Simon Goodwin
SG
Cardiff logo Professor Tim Phillips
TP
Durham logo Dr Dirk Schuetz
DS
East Anglia logo Dr Davide Proment
DP
Essex logo Jesus Martinez Garcia
Jesus Martinez Garcia
Exeter logo Professor Jan Sieber
Professor Jan Sieber
Keele logo Professor Jonathan Healey
JH
Lancaster logo Dr Paul Levy
PL
Leeds logo Dr Jitse Niesen
Dr Jitse Niesen
Leicester logo Dr Matias Ruiz
MR
Liverpool logo Dr Daniel Meyer
DM
Loughborough logo Dr Alexey Bolsinov
AB
Manchester logo Dr Yuri Bazlov
Dr Yuri Bazlov
Newcastle logo Dr Christian Bönicke
CB
Northumbria logo Dr Remy Dubertrand
RD
Nottingham logo Robert Laugwitz
RL
Reading logo Professor Michael Levitin
ML
Sheffield logo Professor Vladimir Bavula
VB
Southampton logo Ashot Minasyan
AM
Surrey logo Dr Michelle Collins
MC
Sussex logo Dr Miroslav Chlebik
MC
Vermont logo Puck Rombach
PR
York logo Professor Roger Colbeck
RC

Academic Steering Committee

Remit

The role of the Academic Steering Committee is oversight and governance.

It will meet annually to monitor, review and sign-off annual management plans prepared by the Management Committee as well as to approve any changes in structure and provide members for the Management, Programme, and other committees.

The Academic Steering Committee will normally delegate its day to day responsibilities to sub
­committees such as the Management Committee and the Programme Committee, but it is ultimately responsible for ensuring:

  • The provision of a suitable portfolio of shared PhD level training courses covering a wide range of areas of mathematics. 
  • Excellence in teaching quality, standards, academic content, and delivery of MAGIC courses. 
  • Monitoring performance and putting in place appropriate review mechanisms to assess quality. 

Members

  • Professor Nigel Peake (Chair)
  • Dr David Aspero
  • Dr Martina Balagovic
  • Professor Vladimir Bavula
  • Dr Alexey Bolsinov
  • Dr Miroslav Chlebik
  • Professor Roger Colbeck
  • Dr Michelle Collins
  • Dr Remy Dubertrand
  • Professor Simon Goodwin
  • Professor Jonathan Healey
  • Robert Laugwitz
  • Professor Michael Levitin
  • Dr Paul Levy
  • Jesus Martinez Garcia
  • Dr Daniel Meyer
  • Ashot Minasyan
  • Dr Jitse Niesen
  • Puck Rombach
  • Dr Matias Ruiz
  • Dr Dirk Schuetz

Ex-officio members

  • Professor Peter Ashwin (as Director)
  • Professor Tim Phillips (as Programme Committee Chair)
  • Dr Yuri Bazlov (as Deputy Director)

Management Committee

Remit

The Management Committee will be responsible for management of policy and operational issues associated with membership of the Parties and delivery of the MAGIC service to partners.

The Management Committee can create task oriented committees and to plan for management succession. 

The Management Committee will prepare annual management plans for approval by the Academic Steering Committee. The plan would contain review of the past year, financial reporting and medium to long term plan. 

Members

  • Professor Peter Ashwin (Chair)
  • Robert Laugwitz
  • Dr Jitse Niesen
  • Dr Dirk Schuetz

Ex-officio members

  • Fraser Murray (as Technical Officer)
  • Professor Tim Phillips (as Programme Committee Chair)
  • Dr Yuri Bazlov (as Deputy Director)

Programme Committee

Remit

Membership

Programme committee should consist of the chair of ASC (ex officio), five members elected by the ASC, one student representative and additional co-opted members up to a maximum of eight.

The five elected members will be appointed from the ASC on an annual basis using a system of nomination followed by a single transferable vote in the case where there are more than five nominees.

Additional co-opted members (who may or may not be members of the ASC) may be appointed by the programme committee as necessary.

Remit

 Programme committee should be responsible for the following: 
  1.  soliciting and recommending, each year, a programme consisting of core courses and specialist courses (these designations are explained below). No less than 60% of the programme should be core courses. The committee should ensure that each course has a lecturer (willing and available for the year in question), a title, a list of prerequisites and a syllabus which summarises the key points of the content (not a lecture by lecture list of content). Programme committee should give clear guidance as to the key topics to be addressed by each core course. The programme should be guided by three principles: the aim of MAGIC is to address breadth of knowledge before depth; the programme should enable students to see the connection between cognate courses, to give some coherence to the programme; there should be a high level of transparency and consultation in the dealings of programme committee. 
  2.  monitoring the teaching quality of programme delivery, to include monitoring feedback questionnaires. At the end of each year, and before the next year's programme is ratified, a report on quality should be presented to ASC. Programme decisions for the next year should take this quality report into account. 

Evidence

Programme committee should be informed by evidence including the following : a report from each node about their core needs for the coming academic year; previous up-take of core courses (in the transition to developing the core the committee should consider previous core-like courses); the range of specialist courses already available, and their up-take; the feedback questionnaires; the minutes of the Advisory Committee and the yearly report to EPSRC. Programme committee may wish to take further advice from Advisory Committee members.The review discussed possible definitions for "core" and "specialist" (or core/non-core as the original MAGIC proposal has it) and suggest the definitions below as a starting point for an incoming programme committee to consider. We recognise in particular that (a) the committee will need to engage with current lecturers in a constructive and diplomatic way if any courses are to be changed and (b) the committee will need to be mindful that there may need to be a period of transition to whatever system is being introduced.

Core courses.

A core course is one which should be available each year and which addresses the needs of sufficiently many nodes. A core course should therefore be able to be transferred between lecturers. Programme committee should be responsible for deciding the title, the prerequisites, the length (10 or 20 hours) and the key topics to be addressed, but each lecturer should be responsible for the details of how those key topics are presented. In the transition to establishing core courses it may be necessary to adjust courses which are already designed, but the costs of this will need to be taken into account. Programme commitee should also look at the desirability of combining current courses to obtain core courses, with possibly more than one lecturer, and invite the lecturers of these current courses to discuss how best to achieve this. 

Specialist courses.

A specialist course should be 10 hours in length and can be pitched either at entry level (i.e., assuming no more than undergraduate level material) or build on core material which has already been taught. The syllabus of a specialist course is entirely determined by the lecturer, who should provide to programme committee a title, a list of prerequisites, a summary of the syllabus including the key topics to be covered. There is no expectation that another lecturer will be available to continue the course in future years. The term "specialist" should not be interpreted as meaning "more advanced": the specialist courses taken altogether should represent a broad cover of mathematics topics outside the core but within the needs of the MAGIC network. 

Members

  • Professor Tim Phillips (Chair)
  • Dr Martina Balagovic
  • Dr Alexey Bolsinov
  • Professor Simon Goodwin
  • Dr Katrin Leschke
  • Dr Paul Levy
  • Jesus Martinez Garcia

Ex-officio members

  • Professor Peter Ashwin (as Director)