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Saul Jacka in Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) of the Isaac Newton Institute
Congratulations to Saul Jacka, who has just agreed to join the Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) of the Isaac Newton Institute (for four years from 1 January 2015).
SSC has an international membership and is responsible for the selection of programmes which will run at the Institute. It meets twice per year, May and October, to consider proposals.
Wilfrid Kendall is to present a Georges de Rham Lecture in Lausanne on 22 April 2015, on the interaction of Probability with Geometry and Topology
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La journée Georges de Rham existe depuis 1991 et c’est un ’’colloque prestige’’ réunissant la communauté mathématique Suisse, et notamment nos doctorants, autour de deux conférenciers prestigieux présentant, durant un exposé d’une heure, un thème d’actualité. Il s’agit d’un exercice difficile pour les orateurs, et les organisateurs cherchent toujours à s’assurer les services de conférenciers de premier plan au niveau scientifique, qui sont aussi connus pour leur capacité à présenter de manière abordable un thème de pointe. En 2015 le thème portera sur les liens entre les probabilités et la topologie et géométrie
The occasion is run by the Swiss Doctoral Programme in Mathematics. The Lectures form the core of the Georges de Rham day, a prestigious yearly event dating back to 1991 and taking place in Lausanne, honouring the remarkable legacy of Georges de Rham (1903-1990), who hailed from and worked for much of his career in the Canton of Vaud. They address the Mathematical community-at-large of Switzerland, with particular emphasis on doctoral students, thus bringing together faculty, students, visitors and other researchers in mathematics from across the country. The Lecturers are chosen to be distinguished mathematicians with a charisma in communicating mathematics, in order for our students to benefit from our esteemed guests. In this sense, talks are intended for a diverse but mathematically mature audience, and are colloquium style, rather than seminar style, lasting about an hour (not including questions). Among past speakers are Alain Connes, Vaughan Jones, László Lovász, Benoît Mandelbrot, Curtis McMullen, John Milnor, Peter Sarnak, Marcus du Sautoy, Jean-Pierre Serre, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, and Don Zagier, to name only a few.
REF 2014: 糖心TV Statistics and Mathematics departments ranked 3rd in the UK
The (Research Excellence Framework) exercise have now been published, and 糖心TV Statistics and the 糖心TV Mathematics Institute together have been ranked 3rd in the UK with more than 90% of our research activity assessed as either internationally excellent or world leading.
Our research environment at 糖心TV is rated by REF 2014 as the very best in the UK for mathematical sciences (achieving the maximum possible score of 100% at 4*).
The University of 糖心TV as a whole is now ranked (among universities) 7th in the UK for our research, with 14 academic departments ranked in the UK top ten for their disciplines.
Further background on REF 2014 is provided in , with additional analysis provided in the .