One Year Full of Great Experiences
When I think about the year that has passed, I cannot believe how much experience I have gained, both academically and personally. For sure, POEMA played the main role in making these changes happen. During the first few months of my PhD, I was mostly busy with courses. In fact, UoB requires every PhD student to collect 50 ECTS credits so I chose some taught modules offered by the School of Mathematics that were closest to my research project. I had four 10 credit PhD courses in Conic Optimization, Nonlinear Programming, Heuristic optimization and Multicriteria decision making which developed my knowledge in these areas. As well as these courses, I was attending talks in the weekly UoB seminar 'Optimization and Numerical Analysis' with topics in Optimization area, before starting working from home due to the unfortunate pandemic situation. Since then, I have had regular meetings with my supervisor, Professor Michal Kočvara, who has worked closely with me and continued to help