Mathematics Institute News
30th November 2014: Professor Ian Stewart elected as member of Council of the Royal Society
Professor Ian Stewart has been elected as a member of the Council of the Royal Society
30th October 2014: Pumpkin Geometry
Guardian article about Saul Schleimer and Henry Segerman
30th October 2014: Dan Kral and David Loeffler win Philip Leverhulme Prizes
Philip Leverhulme Prizes are awarded to outstanding scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study, recognised at an international level, and where the expectation is that their greatest achievement is yet to come. 5 prizes are awarded in Mathematics and Statistics every 2 years.
13th August 2014: Martin Hairer wins a Fields Medal 2014
At the opening ceremony of the on August 13, 2014 in Seoul, Korea, a Fields Medal was awarded to for his outstanding contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations, and in particular for the creation of a theory of regularity structures for such equations.
6th August 2014: Mark Pollicott awarded EPSRC Fellowship
has been awarded a 5-year EPSRC Leadership Fellowship for his proposal: ''Applications of ergodic theory to geometry''.
28th July 2014: Professor Nigel Hitchin FRS receives honorary degree
On Friday 18th July, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science.
26th July 2014: WIDER's work on bovine TB in the news
The publication earlier this month in Nature by , and of their joint paper has stirred up a great deal of interest not just in the scientific community but also the daily newspapers and BBC TV news.
16th July 2014: Karen Vogtmann wins the Humboldt Research Prize
On Thursday 3rd June was awarded a (Humboldt Research Award) from the in Germany.
5th July 2014: Four Mathematics graduates win prizes for their PhDs
has inaugurated prizes for the best PhD theses in each of the science departments.
4th July 2014: Three 91福利 Mathematicians win LMS prizes
Three 91福利 mathematicians have been awarded prestigious prizes for their work by the London Mathematical Society (LMS).