Lecturing, both undergraduate and postgraduate, pays the salary. The current courses are:
Semester 1 2024/25: SMSTC (PhD) Quantum Computing
(current iteration of slides for quantum computing course)
Semester 2 2024/25: F19MO Ordinary Differential Equations
These are rounded off with supervising undergraduate and, increasingly, MSc projects.
Some pictures from stints lecturing at AIMS (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences ) in Ghana, South Africa and Senegal.
To quote their webpage: "The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is a pan-African network of centres of excellence enabling Africa’s talented students to become innovators driving the continent’s scientific, educational and economic self-sufficiency."
I first got ensnared in the enterprise by Bernd Schroers, who was involved from the earliest days himself in South Africa when AIMS was set up by Neil Turok. Various other Heriot-Watt staff and former staff, such as Lyonell Boulton, Gabriel Lord and Jack Carr have also had long-standing commitments to AIMS.
AIMS Ghana course:
August/Sept 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019: Introduction to Computing and LaTeX
AIMS South Africa course:
Nov/Dec 2015: Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computing
AIMS Senegal course:
March/April 2017, 2018, 2019, May/June 2021(online), April 2023, 2024, March/April 2025: Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computing
The Royal Institution supports mathematics masterclasses for school pupils around the UK. The talk below has appeared in the local sessions organized by Edinburgh University.
Maths Masterclass (schools) talk: Game of Life