Department of Mathematics
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS

Email: katiema.hw.ac.uk

Hello. I was PhD student at Heriot Watt from Oct 2004 - end 2008, my supervisor was Bernd Schroers. I would recommend Heriot-Watt as a place to do a Postgraduate degree to anyone; I made loads of friends here, the department (i.e. lecturers, administrative staff and other postgrads) are all very friendly and helpful, and Edinburgh is a brilliant city. If you are a prospective student and have questions for someone who has been through and come out the other side, do feel free to email me (address above is hiding from spam robots so you'll need to type it.)

Academically, I'm interested in topological solitons, particularly magnetic monopoles, Skyrmions and Ginzburg-Landau vortices. I did undergraduate maths and Part III of the Tripos at Pembroke College, Cambridge. My Part III essay was on the representation theory of supersymmetry and superconformal symmetry.

I used to organise EMPG Student Seminars which give some background for the EMPG (Edinburgh Mathematical Physics Group) main seminars. A small collection of ''helpful'' guides written by myself are a click away.

Crocheting hyperbolic surfaces

Möbius strips, Klein bottles and more in LEGO

Sermon on the Manifold

View the universe from 10 million light years away, through powers of ten down to 10^-18m (quarks)

Shiny swirly galaxies - the Ultra Deep Field as seen by Hubble

Game theoretic approach to solving the toilet seat problem

Experiments with Microwave Ovens

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

John Ellis's view of exotic baryons

Shiny picture of the Earth at night

A group blog on String Theory