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David Bate and Marie-Therese Wolfram win LMS Whitehead Prizes

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:15:00 GMT

Congratulations to two ��TV mathematicians who have each won LMS Whitehead Prizes!

David Bate for his deep and fundamental contributions to the development of Geometric Measure Theory in the metric setting, including the characterisations of rectifiability in terms of projections and in terms of tangent planes.

Marie-Therese Wolfram for her groundbreaking contributions to applied partial differential equations, mathematical modelling in socio-economic applications and the life sciences, and numerical analysis of partial differential equations.

See all the 2023 LMS prize winners here

Caroline Series appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:45:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that Caroline Series, CBE, FRS, FIMA has been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 Birthday Honours, for services to Mathematics. Caroline is admired for her many contributions to hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and dynamical systems, and for her service to the mathematics community. Read about Caroline’s life and work here and here.

Congratulations to Thesis Prize Winners: Solly Coles, Thomas Holt, Alice Hodson

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 13:05:00 GMT

We are delighted that three mathematicians have been awarded Thesis Prizes for outstanding doctoral theses in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine:

Dr Solly Coles for the thesis: 'On the distribution of periodic orbits and linking numbers for hyperbolic flows'.

Dr Thomas Holt for the thesis: 'Solving the Kodaira-Spencer problem using harmonic analysis on torus bundles over S^1'.

Dr Alice Hodson for the thesis: 'Virtual element methods for fourth-order problems: implementation and analysis'.

We congratulate them for their outstanding work.

Han Yu awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

Wed, 24 May 2023 21:57:00 GMT

Congratulations to Han Yu, who has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to study Arithmetic Structures of Fractals.

Fractals, such as the middle third Cantor set, the Sierpinski Carpet, and the Mandelbrot set are fundamentally important in branches of pure mathematics such as Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, Number Theory, Geometric Measure Theory, and Probability Theory. Understanding the arithmetic structures in fractals is a difficult problem whose advancements will not only greatly boost pure mathematics research but also have direct applications in practical fields such as Material Science. The fellowship aims to solve challenging conjectures concerning the arithmetic of certain dynamically and arithmetically defined fractals.

��TV mathematics ranked 19th in 2023 QS World University Rankings

Tue, 23 May 2023 22:07:15 GMT

The ��TV Mathematics Institute has again been recognized as one of the world's top mathematics departments by QS World University Rankings, having moved up to 19th worldwide in 2023.

The University of ��TV has been ranked as one of the world's top 25 universities in four subject areas: Statistics & Operational Research, Mathematics, ��TV & Management Studies, and Economics & Econometrics. In total, 30 subjects taught across a range of disciplines at ��TV feature in the annual QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023.

Karen Vogtmann, elected to American Academy of Arts and Science

Wed, 03 May 2023 11:36:00 GMT

Congratulations to Karen Vogtmann, who has just been elected to membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. @theNASciences #NASmember

Karen Vogtmann’s work appears in Quanta Magazine

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:53:14 GMT

The recent paper The Euler characteristic of the moduli space of graphs, by Michael Borinsky and Karen Vogtmann, has been highlighted in an article in Quanta Magazine: Quantum Field Theory Pries Open Mathematical Puzzle. You can also read the original arXiv paper here.

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon awarded honorary doctorate

Sun, 29 Jan 2023 21:21:00 GMT

The University of ��TV has awarded the eminent mathematician Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa. The award was conferred by the Chancellor Cathy Ashton (The Rt Hon. The Baroness Ashton of Upholland GCMG PC) on 16 January 2023. The Oration can be found here.

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician. His research concerns differential geometry and mathematical aspects of theoretical physics. A graduate from the French École Polytechnique, he holds a these d’État in Mathematical Sciences from University of Paris VII. He taught Mathematics at the École Polytechnique for over 25 years and was also Director of the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies. He is a former President of the Mathematics Society of France and the European Mathematical Society. He is also a former President of the European Research Council.

Professor Bourguignon and the Chancellor of the University of ��TV

PhD scholarships for Maths CDT

Sun, 27 Nov 2022 16:22:00 GMT

The ��TV Mathematics Institute hopes to offer 15+ fully funded PhD scholarships for our CDT in Mathematics. The WMI provides an exciting framework for students who wish to pursue a PhD in any area of Mathematics, whether it be in pure and/or applied mathematics. Our next Open Day on 7 December 2022.

Weldon Prize awarded to SPI-M-O and Zeeman modellers

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:27:19 GMT

This year’s Weldon Prize has been awarded to the SPI-M-O group (including members of the ��TV Zeeman InstituteLink opens in a new window) in recognition for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The awards committee said "Under great pressure to deliver results quickly, and under immense public scrutiny, SPI-M-O both built on existing science and developed new epidemiological and statistical techniques to understand the spread of the virus and how it might be controlled. The importance of good and timely disease modelling for policymakers has never been as clear."

The ��TV team (including Keeling, Dyson, Tildesley, Thompson, Hill, Davis, Moore, Guzman-Rincon, Leng and others) has made multiple contributions to understanding and predicting the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020-2022, generating results for both SPI-M-O/SAGE and JCVI. This award reflects this joint effort. Congratulations to all involved!

Read more about the award hereLink opens in a new window.