Sasha Glendinning
About Me
I am a PhD student on the Maths CDT with a particular interest in opinion dynamics.
I am a seminar organiser for the SPAAM seminar at Warwick as part of the SIAM chapter.
I am chair of the Piscopia committee here at Warwick - supporting equal opportunities for women and people of underrepresented genders in maths.
Contact
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Preprints
- SG, Susana N. Gomes, Marie-Therese Wolfram What is the optimal way to lie? From microscopic to kinetic descriptions of consensus control (2025), arXiv
- Luisa Estrada, SG, Andrew Nugent Speaking of opinions: Comparing approaches to modelling opinion manipulation (2026), arXiv
Education
- 2024 - Present: PhD in Mathematics, University of Warwick
I am a second year PhD student on the Maths CDT, supervised by Dr Susana Gomes and Prof Marie-Therese Wolfram. My interests are opinion dynamics, optimal control and dynamical systems.
- 2023 - 2024: MSc in Computational Applied Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
My MSc dissertation was titled Stochastic biochemical models: Applications to Bayesian inference and simulation of SDEs in bounded domains and supervised by Prof Kostas Zyglalakis.
- 2020 - 2023: BA in Mathematics, University of Cambridge
During my second year of undergraduate studies, I completed a research project with Dr Lloyd Fung, titled Sedimentation of plankton in strong flow.
Talks/Travel
- 01/26: DESY Seminar (Universität Hamburg), talk titled Optimal consensus control of opinion dynamics through lying.
- 11/25: SIAM Postgraduate Conference (University of Bristol)
- 11/25: Warwick Postgraduate Seminar (University of Warwick), talk titled Kinetic models of opinion formation and applications to consensus control.
- 10/25: ACDC Autumn School (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), with contributed 'flash presentation', Boltzmann-type optimal consensus control through lying.
- 10/25: Fall conference: Model design, optimization and control (University Cote d'Azur, Nice), with contributed talk, Optimal consensus control of opinion dynamics through lying.
- 07/25: AMP SIAM Conference (University of Oxford), with contributed talk, A receding horizon strategy for optimal control through lying.
- 06/25: NPDE Summer School (University of Edinburgh)
- 05/25: SPAAM Seminar (University of Warwick), talk titled What is the optimal way to lie? (Available to watch online.)
Teaching
- (25/26) Teaching assistant for MA3L2 Optimisation