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Young Researchers in Mathematics 2013 (17-20 June)
June 17-20: the University of Edinburgh will host the 2013 Young Researchers in Mathematics conference for UK-based mathematics graduate students and postdocs: http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/YRM2013/Home.html The schedule is here. ...
5 Whittaker Research Fellowships
The School of Mathematics is currently advertising 5 Whittaker Research Fellowships. Closing date for applications: 22 January, 2013. More details on: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.j ...
Lectureship in School of Mathematics
The School of Mathematics invites applications from highly qualified candidates for a temporary 2.5-year lectureship in Operational Research. The position is available from 1 April 2013 or at another date by mutual agreement. ...
Path to success
Three of our Year 4 undergraduate students, Maddie Bailey, Paul Horrocks and Greg Tyler, have been busy creating a valuable course-selection web-based tool for existing and prospective students. Path was launched recently - ...
Postgraduate wins prize for best talk
Postgraduate student Marina Iliopoulou has won the prize for the best presentation at the 2012 Graduate Student Meeting of the London Mathematical Society.
Knot's Tale (Peter Guthrie Tait) : 2 Videos
Julia Collins gave two versions of her talkĀ A Knot's Tale about the 19th century mathematical physicist/knot theorist Peter Guthrie Tait : a topology seminar in Edinburgh on October 26 for a largely undergraduate audience, ...
Michael Singer
Professor Michael Singer, Head of School 2006-2011, will be leaving Edinburgh at the end of 2012, to take up a chair at University College London. We wish him well! We also congratulate him on his recent election to the Council ...
UK Maths Trust Senior Team Challenge
On 12th November the University of Edinburgh was proud to host the UK Maths Trust Senior Team Challenge.
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
We congratulate Sir Michael Atiyah and Agata Smoktunowicz on their appointment as inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
Postgraduate is runner up in paper award competition
PhD student Martin Takac has won second prize in the INFORMS Computing Society student paper award competition.