SIAM Chapter
The Uppsala University Student Chapter of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) is a network for both graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in computational and applied mathematics. Every year we organize 1-2 excursions to relevant companies. All chapter members are most welcome to attend!
- If you are interested in joining the chapter, please contact one of the officers listed below.
Visit to Scania in Södertälje with test drives of trucks and buses after an informative morning. March 2025.
Upcoming activities
Excursion during the autumn term 2025
In 2025, we have visited Scania during the spring term and the next autumn term excursion is being planned. Read about our visit to Scanina below.
Recent activities (March 2025 - Oct 2017)
Excursion to Scania (March 2025)
After some delays, we finally visited Scania in Södertälje. After a morning full of information about different types of research in their Research & Development department and how jobs in the industry can look like after the PhD, we got to the most fun part of the programme: test driving different types of trucks and buses!
Excursion to Elekta (March 2024)
We visited Elekta in their beautiful new office in Stockholm. They demonstrated their Leksell Gamma Knife, presented the Cone Beam CT and their work (and collaboration with UU IT department!) from radiation physics to algorithms and patient applications. We also had the pleasure of meeting with the company CEO, Gustaf Salford, as seen below.
Excursion to Arriver (Nov 2022)
After two years of postponing due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we finally spent a few hours with the ML engineers of Arriver (formerly Veoneer). They gave us insights into the automatic processing of real-time images in self-driving vehicles and the related challenges. Several employees also hold a PhD and discussing their current projects and working environment with respect to their academic background was very valuable.
Excursion to SEB (Nov 2019)
We were glad to spend a day at SEB in their office by Kungsträdgården, Stockholm. We got to meet former Ph.D. students from the department and listen to multiple interesting talks on deep learning within algorithmic trading, credit risk, ethics in AI and data science, and smart beta investing.
Excursion to BCG Gamma (April 2018)
We were invited to visit Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Gamma in Stockholm where they introduced the company with two cases that BCG Gamma consultant worked with. A senior data scientist with Ph.D. background told us how he decided to join the Gamma-team. Also, we learned how the career path and recruitment process is in BCG.
Excursion to Lloyd´s Register (Oct 2017)
We visited Lloyd's Register in Sundbyberg where they presented their solution on risk analysis for nuclear power plant.They also told us about dynamic risk assessment and RAMS analysis within train. Finally, we learned about LR as a company, their business verticals, type of business and career opportunities.
Excursion to Elekta
Pioneering technology and co-operation with Elekta at the new Stockholm office. 21 March 2024.
Excursion to Arriver
Long-awaited Insight into autonomous vehicles: Arriver ML engineers share their expertise. 25 November 2022.
Excursion to SEB
Inspiring day at SEB's Stockholm office. 27 November 2019.
Picture on the right: Visit to BCG Gamma in Stockholm. Insights on career paths and exciting consulting projects. 9 April 2018. Picture left: Visit to Lloyd's Register in Sundbyberg: Risk analysis and career opportunities. 19 October 2017.
Top left: Visit to DICE, 19 October 2015. Left picture: Visit to FOI, 25 May 2015. Bottom left: Visit to Marco Kupianien, 16 December 2014. Bottom right: Seminar by Mustafa Khammash, 19 December 2013.
Bertil Gustafsson.
Student SIAM Chapter Inaguration (April 2011)
Bertil Gustafsson, Professor Emeritus of Numerical Analysis at Uppsala University, has played an important role in putting Sweden and Uppsala on the world map in computational science. He was interviewed by Philip J. Davis as part of the project ‘The History of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing’. More information about Bertil Gustafsson can be found on Wikipedia.
The pictures below show Heinz-Otto Kreiss, Katharina Kormann, Bertil Gustafsson and faculty advisor Stefan Engblom to the right. The pictures in the centre show Heinz-Otto Kreiss, Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at UCLA and KTH. He was awarded the Von Neumann Lecture in 2003. The bottom right picture shows the mingle after the presentations. 6 April 2011.
Excursion to Spotify
Visit to Spotify's headquarters in Stockholm to learn about their Machine Learning techniques. 14 March 2017.
Excursion to Google
Visit to Google's Stockholm office for an introduction to signal processing in WebRTC and Google Hangouts. 9 November 2016.
Seminar at ABB
Inspiring seminar with Kateryna Mishchenko from ABB on numerical optimisation. 8 June 2016.
Excursion to Ericsson
Ericsson talked about what it is like to work at the company and about visions for the future. 8 November 2013.
Excursion to ABB
Visit to ABB Corporate Research in Västerås where we got an overview of their research activities, 4 April 2013.
Seminar: David Sumpter
David Sumpter held a seminar on mathematical models, 7 March 2012.
Forsmark Nuclear Power
Students from SIAM student chapter with nuclear reactors behind us. 14 November 2011.
Warwick Tucker
Seminar on validated numerics with Warwick Tucker, autumn 2011.
Excursion to Comsol
Visit to the Comsol office, where we had stimulating discussions about Comsol Multiphysics. 19 May 2011.