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Ashleigh Ratcliffe

Graduate Teaching Assistant

School/Department: Computing and Mathematical Sciences, School of

Email: amw64@leicester.ac.uk

Profile

I am a third year Mathematics PhD student supervised by Dr Bogdan Grechuk. The title of my research is "A systematic approach to solving Diophantine equations." 

Publications

B Grechuk, T Grechuk, A Wilcox, Diophantine equations with three monomials, Journal of Number Theory, Volume 253, 2023, Pages 69-108, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2023.06.011.

Teaching

2022-23: Teaching Assistant for Calculus and Analysis (MA1014).

2023-24: Teaching Assistant for Calculus and Analysis (MA1014).

2024-25: Drop in support sessions for first year mathematics undergraduates. LaTeX support sessions. Computer Practicals (R and Matlab).

Activities

I am a co-lead (and also the University of Leicester Representative) of the Piscopia Initiative, encouraging women and underrepresented genders to pursue a PhD in Mathematics. Through this role, I have promoted the initiative at Undergraduate student induction sessions.

I am an editor of Chalkdust Magazine, a magazine for the mathematically curious.

Conferences

Presented at:

Linfoot Number Theory Seminar, September 2024

WINGs2024

PiFORUM23, September 2023

British Early Careers Mathematicians' Colloquium (BECMC) 2023, July 2023

Attended:

History of modern mathematics in HE mathematics teaching, February 2025

PiFORUM24 (co-organiser)

Effectively Teaching Mathematics as a Postgraduate 2023, May 2023

Qualifications

Associate Fellow of Advance HE (AFHEA), awarded June 2024

Mathematics BSc, University of Leicester.

Level 1 British Sign Language Studies, Institute of British Sign Language.

Mental Health First Aid Champion, MHFA England.

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