People

Node representatives

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

University	Rep	Photo
	Dr Sandor Nemeth	SN
	Dr Jonathan Thompson	JT
	Dr Dirk Schuetz	DS
	Dr Davide Proment	DP
	Dr Sema Gunturkun	SG
	Professor Jan Sieber
	Professor Jonathan Healey	JH
	Yemon Choi	YC
	Dr Jitse Niesen
	Dr Matias Ruiz	MR
	Dr Daniel Meyer	DM
	Dr Alexey Bolsinov	AB
	Dr Yuri Bazlov
	Dr Christian Bönicke	CB
	Dr Remy Dubertrand	RD
	Robert Laugwitz	RL
	Professor Michael Levitin	ML
	Professor Vladimir Bavula	VB
	Ashot Minasyan	AM
	Dr Bin Cheng	BC
	Dr Miroslav Chlebik	MC
	Puck Rombach	PR
	Dr Matthew Pusey	MP

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.

Chair

Professor Nigel Peake

*External

Members

Dr David Aspero

University of East Anglia

DA
Professor Vladimir Bavula

University of Sheffield

VB
Dr Alexey Bolsinov

Loughborough University

AB
Dr Christian Bönicke

University of Newcastle

CB
Dr Bin Cheng

University of Surrey

BC
Dr Miroslav Chlebik

University of Sussex

MC
Dr Remy Dubertrand

Northumbria University

RD
Dr Sema Gunturkun

University of Essex

SG
Professor Jonathan Healey

Keele University

JH
Dr Thorsten Heidersdorf

University of Newcastle

TH
Robert Laugwitz

University of Nottingham

RL
Professor Michael Levitin

University of Reading

ML
Dr Daniel Meyer

University of Liverpool

DM
Ashot Minasyan

University of Southampton

AM
Dr Sandor Nemeth

University of Birmingham

SN
Dr Jitse Niesen

University of Leeds
Dr Matthew Pusey

University of York

MP
Puck Rombach

University of Vermont

PR
Dr Matias Ruiz

University of Leicester

MR
Dr Dirk Schuetz

Durham University

DS
Dr Jonathan Thompson

Cardiff University

JT

Ex-officio members

Professor Peter Ashwin
Director
University of Exeter
Dr Yuri Bazlov
Deputy Director
University of Manchester
Yemon Choi
Programme Committee Chair
University of Lancaster

YC

Secretary

Sam Blackburn

University of Exeter

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.

Chair

Professor Peter Ashwin

University of Exeter

Members

Robert Laugwitz

University of Nottingham

RL
Dr Jitse Niesen

University of Leeds
Dr Dirk Schuetz

Durham University

DS

Ex-officio members

Dr Yuri Bazlov
Deputy Director
University of Manchester
Yemon Choi
Programme Committee Chair
University of Lancaster

YC
Fraser Murray
Technical Officer
University of Exeter

Secretary

Sam Blackburn

University of Exeter

Programme Committee

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:

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.
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.

Chair

Yemon Choi

University of Lancaster

Members

Dr Alexey Bolsinov

Loughborough University

AB
Dr Christian Bönicke

University of Newcastle

CB
Dr Thorsten Heidersdorf

University of Newcastle

TH
Dr Sandor Nemeth

University of Birmingham

SN
Dr Matias Ruiz

University of Leicester

MR
Dr Polina Vytnova

University of Surrey

PV

Ex-officio members

Professor Peter Ashwin
Director
University of Exeter

Secretary

Sam Blackburn

University of Exeter

Node representatives

Academic Steering Committee

Remit

Chair

Professor Nigel Peake

Members

Dr David Aspero

Professor Vladimir Bavula

Dr Alexey Bolsinov

Dr Christian Bönicke

Dr Bin Cheng

Dr Miroslav Chlebik

Dr Remy Dubertrand

Dr Sema Gunturkun

Professor Jonathan Healey

Dr Thorsten Heidersdorf

Robert Laugwitz

Professor Michael Levitin

Dr Daniel Meyer

Ashot Minasyan

Dr Sandor Nemeth

Dr Jitse Niesen

Dr Matthew Pusey

Puck Rombach

Dr Matias Ruiz

Dr Dirk Schuetz

Dr Jonathan Thompson

Ex-officio members

Professor Peter Ashwin

Dr Yuri Bazlov

Yemon Choi

Secretary

Sam Blackburn

Management Committee

Remit

Chair

Professor Peter Ashwin

Members

Robert Laugwitz

Dr Jitse Niesen

Dr Dirk Schuetz

Ex-officio members

Dr Yuri Bazlov

Yemon Choi

Fraser Murray

Secretary

Sam Blackburn

Programme Committee

Membership

Remit

Evidence

Chair

Yemon Choi

Members

Dr Alexey Bolsinov

Dr Christian Bönicke

Dr Thorsten Heidersdorf

Dr Sandor Nemeth

Dr Matias Ruiz

Dr Polina Vytnova

Ex-officio members

Professor Peter Ashwin

Secretary

Sam Blackburn