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Tom Leinster awarded 2019 Chauvenet Prize

Published: Thursday, 17 January 2019 Tags: funding award

Tom Leinster has been awarded the 2019 Chauvenet Prize. This prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. First awarded in 1925, the Prize is named for William Chauvenet, a professor of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy. It was established through a gift in 1925 from J. L. Coolidge, then President of the Mathematical Association of America. Winners of the Chauvenet Prize are among the most distinguished of mathematical expositors.

John Pearson awarded an EPSRC New Investigator Award

Published: Thursday, 17 January 2019 Tags: Applied Mathematics funding award

John Pearson has been awarded an EPSRC New Investigator Award titled ‘Modern Linear Algebra for PDE-Constrained Optimisation Models for Huge-Scale Data Analysis'.

Principal's Teaching Award Scheme

Published: Tuesday, 4 December 2018 Tags: funding award Maths Education

George Kinnear and Pamela Docherty along with colleagues in the School of Physics and Astronomy and R(D)SVS have been awarded a grant under the Principal's Teaching Award Scheme.

ERC Consolidator Grant Awarded

Published: Tuesday, 4 December 2018 Tags: Algebra Geometry Fellowship funding award

Arend Bayer has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant worth almost 2 million euros.

Centre for Statistics: joint research day

Published: Wednesday, 21 November 2018 Tags: Statistics

A joint research day between the Centre for Statistics and the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences took place on Tuesday 20th November 2018. The scope of the meeting was to promote interdisciplinary research across the University ...

Sara Wade elected secretary of the Bayesian nonparametric section of ISBA

Published: Wednesday, 21 November 2018 Tags: Statistics international

Congratulations to Dr Sara Wade who has been elected Secretary of the Bayesian Nonparametric Section of the International Society of Bayesian Analysis. The purpose of the Bayesian Nonparametrics Section of ISBA is to promote research ...

IAD Action Fund grant awarded

Published: Monday, 5 November 2018 Tags: Algebra Geometry Topology funding award

Congratulations to Andrea Appel who has been awarded an Action Fund grant by the Institute for Academic Development.

APEX Grant Awarded

Published: Monday, 5 November 2018 Tags: Statistics funding award

Congratulations to Ioannis Papastathopoulos who has been awarded an APEX grant.

University Challenge

Published: Thursday, 13 September 2018 Tags:

PhD student Matt Booth and MMath student Robert Campbell Hewson are part of the University of Edinburgh team competing on University Challenge.

University of Sydney - University of Edinburgh Partnership Collaboration awarded to Nikola Popovic

Published: Monday, 27 August 2018 Tags: Applied Mathematics funding award

Congratulations to Nikola Popovic who successfully applied for a University of Sydney - University of Edinburgh Partnership Collaboration Award.

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