News
Official Launch of the Scottish Financial Risk Academy
Maths venture to help banks cut risks On Thursday, 4th November, the Inaugural Risk Colloquium of the Scottish Financial Risk Academy (SFRA) took place in central Edinburgh (Bryce Hall, The Mound). The SFRA was established ...
A novel quantum breakthrough
Hannu Rajaniemi, who obtained a PhD in the School of Mathematics in 2006, has published his debut science fiction novel, The Quantum Thief.
The Guardian interviewed him, calling the book this year's most exciting SF ...
Breakthrough in pancreatic cancer research
Tibor Antal, a lecturer in the School of Mathematics, is a coauthor of an article in Nature Distant metastasis occurs late during the genetic evolution of pancreatic cancer on genetic clues on how pancreatic cancer spreads through ...
Prize visit
Professor Colin Aitken recently played host to the winners of a mathematics competition in the Netherlands.
The Radboud University Nijmegen Mathematics Tournament has been running since 1992. It is for teams of pupils aged ...
Derek Arthur (1945 - 2010)
Derek Arthur, a senior lecturer in the School of Mathematics for many years, has died at the age of 65.
School of Mathematics Outreach
The School of Mathematics is actively involved in Outreach and Public Engagement work. Please see our new web pages for details.
Reality show meets scientists
Two scientists, including School of Mathematics postgraduate student Pamela Docherty, have met reality: see the article in the September 2010 issue of the EU:Sci Edinburgh University Science magazine.
SQA and A-level results 2010
If you have been offered a place on one of our mathematics degrees but need to discuss this in light of your results you should contact our admissions officers in the College of Science & Engineering. Tel 0131 650 5737 email ...
2011 Whittaker Colloquium TOPOLOGY AND DATA Gunnar Carlsson
The 2011 Whittaker Colloquium speaker was Professor Gunnar Carlsson of the Applied and Computational Algebraic Topology group at Stanford University who spoke on Monday,14th March on "Topology and Data" Poster. ...