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Spotlight on Research

At the School of Mathematics our research groups are busy uncovering deep and beautiful facts, pushing the frontiers of human imagination and solving a plethora of important real-world problems.  In this section we regularly put the spotlight on different research groups to find out exactly what problems they are working on and why these are important.

Peter Richtarik

Blind mountain climbers

Peter Richtarik gives an insight into the world of optimization: where universes have millions of dimensions and where relying on dumb luck is often the best way of solving a problem.

 

Tibor Antal

Mathematics gives new hope to cancer researchers

Tibor Antal's surprising research into pancreatic cancer has given doctors hope that they can combat one of the deadliest cancers in the world.

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