NAMSSN UI Chapter
Interdepartmental collaborationsA space where mathematics meets other disciplines.
Interdepartmental collaborations bring NAMSSN UI together with departments that rely on mathematics every day. Joint seminars, mixed problem sessions, and small projects help students see how their skills are used across the campus.
This page keeps the structure of those collaborations in one place, so ideas can be reused, refined, and extended over time.
How collaborations are organised
A typical collaboration begins with a simple idea shared between student groups or departments. Once the partners are clear, a small organising team agrees on a format, chooses a date, and prepares any materials needed.
- • Each activity has a clear theme and target audience.
- • At least one organiser from each department is identified.
- • Slides, notes, or problem sheets are collected and stored after the event.
This page records those activities so that others can see what has been done, borrow ideas, and design new collaborations in the same spirit.
Formats that work well
The cards below show some of the most natural ways to work together. A single collaboration can even combine two or more formats.
One speaker from Mathematics and one from a partner department explain how the same concept appears in their work (for example, eigenvalues, optimisation, or randomness).
Students from two departments work together on a carefully chosen problem set that needs both viewpoints to solve comfortably.
Over a few weeks, a mixed group prepares a poster or short talk on a topic that naturally crosses departmental lines.
A session centred on a common method—such as regression, numerical schemes, or optimisation— presented from different disciplinary angles.
New collaboration ideas can be added to this list as NAMSSN UI and partner departments experiment with other formats.
Departments, student associations, or informal groups that would like to work with NAMSSN UI can share their details here. A member of the collaborations team will follow up to refine the idea and agree on practical details.