Professor John Quigley from the Department of Management Science was successful in a collaborative bid with academics from the Universities of Durham, Salford and Brunel in securing a grant from the London Mathematical Society to support a series of workshops.
The workshops will be concerned with decision support associated with the design and maintenance of networks that comprise constituent components whose lifetimes are statistically dependent. The problems addressed will be relevant to a range of critical infrastructure such as railways or, more generally, supply chains of goods and services but will have as a primary focus power distribution networks.
Dr Aliakbar Jafari (Department of Marketing) has been appointed to the Editorial Review Board of the interdisciplinary journal of 'Consumption, Markets and Culture'. Combining theories of culture, media, gender, anthropology, literary criticism and semiology with analyses of business and management, the journal is international in its scope and iconoclastic in its aims.
Professor Bhimaraya Metri, Dean of Strathclyde SKIL Business School, India, has been invited to be COSA 2012 Conference Chairman. The 2012 conference is on the theme of Sustainable Business in Asia and will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, in November next year. It will offer a platform for scholarly and applied conversations among a wide variety of stakeholders concerned with the continual challenge of advancing the sustainable business agenda: people, planet and profit.
More information is available at www.cosa2012.org/
Professor Colin Mason (Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship), who is an international authority on business angels, was invited to be a panellist at the annual summit of Canada's National Angel Capital Organisation (NACO) which was held in Ottawa at the end of November. Earlier in the year Professor Mason was invited by NACO to write a report on angel investment activity in Canada.
While in Canada he also took up an invitation to be an external examiner for a PhD thesis (on the topic of business angels) at the University of Waterloo, Canada's premier technology university.
Professor John Quigley and Dr Matthew Revie from the department of Management Science had their paper "Estimating the Probability of Rare Events: Addressing Zero Failure Data" shortlisted for the Lloyds Science of Risk Prize in Insurance Operations and Markets. The paper presents a method for estimating the probability of events that have yet not occurred.
Professor Lesley Walls has been awarded a Certificate for Significant Contribution to IEC standardisation in recognition for her work as Project Leader for the recently published International Electrotechnical Committee standard 60605-6 on reliability analysis.
The Department of Management Science welcomes two new researchers: Dr Esrzsebet Dombi who has won an EPSRC Researcher-in-Residence award; and Gillian Anderson who will be working on a Research Exploitation Project part funded by Scottish Power and the EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Account.
Partners from all Strathclyde Business School's overseas centres gathered in Zurich in November to discuss activity at the centres for the past year, programme updates, marketing and strategy plans, and sharing best practice. The event was chaired by Professor Colin Eden, Associate Dean and Director of the International Division.
It was also an opportunity for some networking with extra-curricular outings arranged to some of Zurich's famous sights, including a trip to a traditional watchmaker.
The University of Strathclyde Alumni Malaysia Group held its 5th Annual Dinner Event on December 10 at the Sunway Resort Hotel, Ballroom in Malaysia, with the event open to all Strathclyde Alumni living in Malaysia. The theme of the evening was Movie Night.
Dr Viktor Dorfler of the Management Science Department delivered an invited lecture to the undergraduate students of the NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences on 'Strategy and Communication'. His lecture introduced the different types of knowledge and knowledge sharing to then depict a knowledge-based view of strategy.
Finance staff from BAE Systems and a representative from CIMA visited the 40426 Planning & Control Systems class on Friday November 18. Students participated by completing a Case Study and preparing presentations which were judged by staff from both CIMA and BAE Systems. This event was a real success and the judging panel were very impressed by the quality of the honours students participating in this event.