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Training Workshop Friday 28th Jan. 9.30 - 1pm

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 11:01:00 GMT

Scientific computation and the finite element method on Friday 28th January (9.30am-1pm). Given the current restrictions, this event will be held on Zoom.

Best Paper Award ICSTA conference

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:46:00 BST

The paper "Inference in cardiovascular modelling subject to medical interventions" by Mihaela Paun, Agnieszka Borowska and Dirk Husmeier, in collaboration with their North Carolina collaborators Mitchel Colebank and Mette Olufsen http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/248501/ has won the best paper award at this year's ICSTA conference (International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications). A recording of the presentation is available here: zoom_recording.mp4

Best Paper Prize at ICSTA 2020 for David Dalton

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:43:00 BST

David Dalton, a PhD students funded by SofTMech^MP, has just been awarded the BEST PAPER prize at the 2nd International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA’20) August 19, 2020 - August 21, 2020 for the paper entitled: “Comparative Evaluation of Different Emulators for Cardiac Mechanics” read more....

News from Heriot Watt Group: Papers accepted for the 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2020)

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 10:45:00 BST

Good News from Steven McDougall's group at Heriot Watt where encouraging progress is being made on ultrasound cancer biomarker work. Two papers were accepted for the 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2020) see more .......

Leverhulme Research Fellowship for Professor Nick Hill

Fri, 08 May 2020 10:46:00 BST

Congratulations to Professor Nick Hill on the award of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship on 'Coupling circulation models to the micro-circulation'. read more....

Christian on Local Radio 22nd June

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:49:00 BST

Christian Verga was interviewed by the Italian Radio for the Trentino region regarding the iHEART project. The iHeart project, whose PI is Alfio Quarteroni, is on cardiac modelling aligned to SofTMech's work.The interview was about the collaboration with Ospedale S. Maria del Carmine, Rovereto on the optimization of the Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy see more .....

International Exchange Grant to Prof. Nick Hill

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 13:43:00 BST

International Exchange Grant Congratulations to Prof Nick Hill (SofTMech Executive Director) on the award of a 2-year Royal Society of London-Newton Mobility Grant for a new collaboration with Dr Haofei Liu (Dept of Mechanics, Tianjin University, PR China). Their project is on `A numerical investigation of post-TEVAR dissection propagation and aortic expansion'.

GOLD MEDAL FOR MIHAELA PAUN IN THE STEM for BRITAIN 2020 COMPETITION

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 12:29:00 GMT

Mihaela Paun has won the GOLD MEDAL in the STEM for BRITAIN 2020 competition, category "Mathematics" http://www.setforbritain.org.uk/2020event.asp

Image of SofTMech PHD studen Louise Mason receiving the STEM 2018 Gold Award for Engineering

Look back at 2018 News: Success for Louise Mason in STEM for Britain 2018

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:39:00 BST

SofTMech PhD student Louise Mason (supervised by Huabing Yin and Ray Ogden) was awarded the Gold Medal for Engineering at the prestigious STEM for Britain event, held in UK Parliament in March 2018.

SofTMech Patient Participation Day 20th May 2019, Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel - Innovation center

Mon, 20 May 2019 13:04:00 BST

SofTMech held a Patient Participation Day at the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel Innovation Centre on Monday 20th May 2019. A big thank you to all the patients that attended. A slide show of the event and the presentations can be viewed via link to the right read more ....

a view of the Hunterian Gallery, Library and Fraser building

SofTMech Tissue Modelling Workshop A-Z report

Tue, 28 May 2019 13:11:00 BST

The final Day of the Soft Tissue Modelling Workshop was held on Friday 7th June; the SofTMech Workshop committee would like to thank all the delegates for coming to take part in the workshop. An A-Z of the workshop can be viewed via the link to the right. Due to COVID-19 the 5th workshop will be postponed for 1 year and be held in June 2021 read more .....

Presentation by Xiaoyu Luo at the SofTMech Industry Dialogue day on 24/11/17

SofTMech Industry Dialogue 2017

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:09:00 BST

SofTMech successfully organised a `Dialogue with Industry' event on 24 November, 2017

Pictures of Michael Olson and Matthew Dalby

Welcome to new SofTMech CI Prof Matt Dalby

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:48:00 BST

Congratulations to SofTMech CI Prof Mike Olsen, pictured on the left, who has been appointed as a Professor in Department of Chemistry and Biology at Ryerson University in Canada. We are pleased to welcome a new SofTMech CI in Prof Matt Dalby from the Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology at University of Glasgow.

Group picture of SofTMech attendees at BAMC 2018 St Andrews

SofTMech at BAMC 2018

Tue, 01 May 2018 10:22:00 BST

SofTMech organised four different mini-symposia as part of the British Applied Maths Colloquium held in St. Andrews 26-29th March 2018. The BAMC program included talks by almost all the SofTMech CIs, PDRAs and PhD students.

Image of Stent for LKAS STUDENTSHIP award

SofTMech secures LKAS fellowships

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:33:00 BST

SofTMech (Sean McGinty, Xiaoyu Luo, Simon Kennedy) has been successful in securing a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith (LKAS) Interdisciplinary PhD scholarship.

Upcoming SofTMech conferences

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:43:00 BST

The joint EPSRC Multisim-Softmech workshop will be held on June 18-20, 2018 at the University of Sheffield. The next event in the series, the 4th International Soft Tissue workshop with be held in Glasgow in June 2019.

Out and about

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:51:00 BST

SofTMech PDRA Andrey Melnik and SofTMech CI Peter Stewart gave invited Seminars in Cardiff and Nottingham respectiveley.

Dr Michael Watson visit

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:37:00 BST

SofTMech CI Peter Stewart has been successful in obtaining funding from the Principal’s Early Career Mobility Scheme at University of Glasgow.

SofTMech successful in IAA application

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:06:00 BST

SofTMech (PI: Xiaoyu Luo, Hao Gao, Dirk Husmeier, Nick Hill and Colin Berry) have secured funding from the University of Glasgow Impact Acceleration Account (IAA, funded by EPSRC) totalling £25k, with the matched funding from GSK.

Funding Award for SofTMech CI Prof. Colin Berry

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:59:00 BST

SofTMech CI Prof. Colin Berry successfully secured 5.6M EUR on a New Horizon 2020 EURO SHOCK study

SofTMech student news July-October 2017

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:45:00 BST

SoftMech also welcomes a new PhD student Mr Debao Guan, who will work on the Living Heart Project.

SofTMech researchers presenting at the European Researchers night.

SofTMech at European Researchers Night

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:58:00 BST

Researchers from the EPSRC SofTMech centre presented at the 'European Researchers Night', Glasgow at the Riverside Museum on Friday evening 29th September 2017. This is the second of these events to involve the SofTMech team.

SofTMech visit TU Graz

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:41:00 BST

SofTMech researchers Prof. Ray Ogden and Dr. Nan Qi have recently visited Prof. Gerhard Holzapfel at teh Institute of Biomechanics, Graz Univeristy of Technology, Austria to intensify their collaboration on single cell modelling.

SofTMech Minisymposium at ECCM-ECFD

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:14:00 BST

SofTMech (Luo, Ogden and colleagues) are organizing a minisymposium on 'Computational soft tissue cardiac mechanics' at the joint European Conference on Computational Mechanics and 7th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECCM-ECFD), to be held in Glasgow, 11-16 June 2018.

Out and about July-October 2017

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:42:00 BST

A summary of seminars, invited talks and research visits given by SofTMech members:

SofTMech conference, Sheffield 2018

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:55:00 BST

We are pleased to announce that a joint EPSRC Multisim-Sofmech workshop will be held on June 18-20, 2018 at the University of Sheffield.

Event: Workshop on Soft Tissue Modelling, University of Glasgow, 7th-9th June 2017

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 15:35:00 BST

The third international workshop on Soft Tissue Modelling was held at the University of Glasgow from Wednesday 7th to Friday 9th June 2017.

Out and about: April-June 2017

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:50:00 BST

Out and about: April-June 2017

SofTMech student news April - June 2017

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:50:00 BST

The latest news from SofTMech students!

EPSRC First Grant Awarded

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:04:00 BST

SofTMech CI Dr Peter Stewart has recently been awarded an EPSRC First Grant.

Inaugural Sneddon Lecture on "Modelling collective cell movement" by Professor Philip Maini FRS

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 15:22:00 BST

Inaugural Sneddon Lecture on "Modelling collective cell movement" by Professor Philip Maini FRS

Kenneth Mangion, presented at Issac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:42:00 BST

Kenneth Mangion, presented at Issac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

SofTMech in new INI proposal

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 14:42:00 GMT

Details of the four-month Isaac Newton Institute programme and workshops at the University of Cambridge in Summer/Autumn 2019, on ‘Mathematics for Healthcare: Interfaces, Methods, Problems and Solutions’.

Dialogue with Clinicians on Cancer

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 14:26:00 GMT

A look back at the second dialogue with clinicians event, ‘A Dialogue on Cancer’ at Heriot-Watt University.

Event: A Dialogue on Cancer | 25 November, 2016 – 9:30am – 5pm at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:07:00 GMT

This workshop is the second in a series of focussed meetings, co-funded by the EPSRC Network ‘Predictive mOdelling for hEalthcare through MathS (POEMS)’ and Centre for Multiscale Soft Tissue Mechanics (SoftMech). The focus of the workshop will be to bring together multidisciplinary groups (e.g. clinicians, biologists and modellers) and initiate dialogues and collaborations across disciplines, on challenges in relation to the mechanical and physical aspects of cancer.

SofTMech/CMALS Modelling Week

Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:34:00 BST

SofTMech and CMALS jointly ran a Modelling Week training event for PhD students and post-doc RAs

European Researcher Night: Outreach Event

Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:37:00 GMT

On September 30th, SofTMech participated in the European Researcher Night outreach event at the Glasgow Science Centre.

SofTMech has had a further funding success

Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:27:00 BST

SofTMech has successfully secured an EPSRC IAA grant of £46k

SofTMech members to organse three minisymposia at CMBE2017

Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:07:00 BST

SofTMech members are involved in organsing three minisymposia for the Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering (CMBE2017) in Pittsburgh

Visit by Professors Mette Olufsen and Mansoor Haider, NSCU: 19th - 23rd September 2016

Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:12:00 BST

From Monday 19th September to Friday 23rd September 2016 we are very pleased to welcome Professors Mette Olufsen and Mansoor Haider to the University of Glasgow. They will be visiting from North Carolina State University to meet with SofTMech members and present seminars.

SofTMech Launch Event

Sun, 03 Apr 2016 10:28:00 BST

Launch Event for the new SofTMech Centre was held in Glasgow on Thursday 21st April 2016

Professor Raymond Ogden receives the Timoshenko Medal

Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:42:00 BST

Professor Raymond Ogden receives the Timoshenko Medal for the creation of a new area of applied mechanics research.

Major international prize for SofTMech Scientific Director

Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:36:00 GMT

Professor Ogden, Scientific Director of SofTMech, will be presented with the 2016 Rodney Hill Prize at the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Montreal, Canada in August 2016.