What do you do for a living?

[Koant]

I do sums - the funny ones with Greek letters, over and over and over. And I love it!

I'd guessed that, probably from your posts in UYA.

Arf! I suppose it shows that I only have a maximum of 2 subjects of conversation.

What sort of maths thing do you do (student, PhD student, actuary, etc)?

I work at uni, working on stochastic processes. You probably know what that is since you're working in the City - financial maths are based on stochastic processes. I've never touched that though, the applications I have in mind are more in biology and chemistry.

[Milo]

the applications I have in mind are more in biology and chemistry.

woo, what sort of thing?

[Koant]

Well, you can use stochastic processes to include noise or irregularity in your model, e.g. with Brownian motion. There are loads of applications in diffusion in irregular material for example,
Or in dynamical systems (rife in chemistry and biology), it's possible to turn a dynamical model into a simpler stochastic one, from which we can infer long term behaviour.
The problem we're working on at the moment is how to jump ahead in time with some confidence, when you can only observe your system on a short time-scale.

erm..thank you for your interest folks!

[hymen spaz]

I'm also throwing my hat in with the cunt circus that is the Media gang....

Although I did work for the one of the wankiest of them all....MTV  (well it was actually VH1)

I'm now freelance again so its pretty much unemploymentsville at the moment  which is good for paying the rent.

[glitch]

I work in multimedia, using Flash to design all kinds of training packages for people like Hilton and O2.

It's not the work I want to do, but the pay's not bad and the experience is great*

* meaning I'm moving to advertising/marketting the first chance I get