Luthais McCash: Business meets science and maths | outreach, research and exploration | #6

This 6th episode is with Luthais McCash, Chief Scientific Officer at Sigma Solutions and chair of the mathematical and theoretical physics group at The Institute of Physics. Sigma Solutions was built entirely from scratch by Luthais as a business consulting firm that offers distinct ideas in state-of-the-art data analysis to a variety of businesses across multiple industries. The company has a reputation of finding creative approaches to complicated problems and has recently won the accolade of most innovative business 2022, awarded by Corporate Vision magazine. Luthais himself has been recognised as one of the top 20 most dynamic CEOs in the UK of 2022 and he's still only in his twenties. Luthais was initially recognised as a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in May 2020 for his creative work on advanced modelling and optimisation in the energy industry with a focus on oil and gas. He developed and implemented technology that revolutionised the trading and efficient distribution of liquified natural gas by cutting costs by a factor of 10. He's been re-elected as a fellow of the RSS in June 2021 and he has also been an honorary fellow at the University of Leicester in 2019-2021. On top of his business exploits he is now also in a research position at Durham University. Listen to hear more and enjoy! The Galileo Interviews on: » Twitter | https://twitter.com/TheGalileoInt » Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/thegalileointerviews » LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/company/thegalileointerviews Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:51 Bringing business and science together 00:11:12 Choosing the business to work with and the problems to solve 00:25:58 How do you approach solving a problem? 00:29:15 What is the research you are currently working on? 00:33:40 The timespan from idea to publishing a paper 00:36:37 A mathematician's approach to problem solving 00:38:52  The importance of science in society 00:48:35  Supporting public engagement with science at The Institute of Physics 00:51:26  Thoughts on increasing diversity in science 00:56:18  Reasons to study mathematics and physics Resources: Sigma Solutions: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sigma-solutionsglobal https://www.sigmasolutions.uk Institute of Physics: https://www.iop.org https://www.youtube.com/user/InstituteofPhysics BankAbility: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-ability-ltd/ https://www.bankability.app/#about Corporate Vision Magazine: https://www.corporatevision-news.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/corporate-vision-magazine/ Royal Statistical Society: https://rss.org.uk https://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalStatSoc University of Leicester: https://le.ac.uk https://www.youtube.com/user/UniversityLeicester Durham University: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/physics/ Richard Feynman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman Pareto Principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle Bose-Einstein condensate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose–Einstein_condensate #IOPLimitLess #physics #mathematics #quantumphysics #iamaphysicist #thegalileointerviews #sciencecommunication #quantum #quantumcomputing #quantumtechnology #UniversityOfLeicester #DUinspire #CitizensOfChange #sigmasolutions #optimisationproblems #problemssolving #leadership