general information

General Information

The Mathematics and Statistics Group is situated in Block H in the University of Paisley, Paisley Campus.

The departmental office is located in H222 in the Elles building.

The department comprises 12 academic members of staff and 1 secretary.

For information on staff offices, phone numbers and links to staff home pages, see the Mathematics staff page.

Teaching, Conference and Computing Facilities

There are 3 departmental labs which each contain 10 Pentium PCs connected to the University network.

Software common to all PCs in the department includes,

multi-media learning material such as Mathwise and Mentor
Microsoft Office
Maths and Stats packages such as Derive, Matlab and Minitab.

Additionally, each lab also has a specialised range of application software:

H322 - The Business Analysis Lab

A wide range of working and demonstration packages of business modelling software, such as Flowcharter, Simul8 and PowerSim.

H324 - The Financial Analysis Lab

Software for analysing financial data, managing portfolio's and simulating trading floor activity.

H326 - The Maths Support Unit

Eight additional OPUS PC's and supporting learning material comprise the Mathematics support group.

Other facilities

Each of the three labs is well equipped with whiteboards and has access to video and computer projection facilities. The flexible seating and table arrangements allow a variety of teaching, training and conference activities to take place.

The honours year project room also contains PCs, this is located in H209 solely for the use of final year students.

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