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MSc graduates make industry impact with award-winning operational research projects
Two recent MSc graduates from the School of Mathematics have been honoured by the Operational Research Society for their outstanding dissertations. Scott Jenkins was awarded the prestigious May Hicks Prize for Best Post-graduate Project, and Tom Murarik was named runner-up.
New Centre for Investing Innovation research project launched
The Centre for Investing Innovation, led by Centre Director Sotirios Sabanis, has announced the start of a new joint research project between abrdn and the University of Edinburgh. Researchers from the University's School ...
Ruth King announced as programme chair for the 2025 RSS Annual Conference
We're delighted to announce that Professor Ruth King is the programme chair for the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) 2025 International Conference in Edinburgh from 1-4 September 2025. For more information, please visit the ...
Erin Goldstraw has been awarded a Daphne Jackson fellowship
Her appointment will be with the School of Mathematics though with joint supervision with SoPA. Previosly, Erin was in the SoPA MSc Mathematical Physics programm 2014/15, graduating with Distinction and class medal. Erin's ...
Big Ideas Accelerator Success
The School has had two successes from the Big Ideas Accelerator Fund, the internal seed-funding scheme that aims to fuel innovative and disruptive projects that transcend traditional boundaries:
Amanda Lenzi will work in collaboration ...
EOLAS Insight Ltd Secondment for Torben Sell
Torben Sell has received funding from the EPSRC IAA fund to enable him to undertake a secondment with EOLAS Insight Ltd. They will work together to assess the effectiveness of clustering algorithms in accurately predicting habitat ...
Cecilia Balocchi secures CSE-CMVM Immune Regulation Funding
Cecilia Balocchi, in collaboration with Linus Schumacher, Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Prakash Ramachandran, Centre for Inflammation Research, has received funding from the CSE-CMVM Immune Regulation Pump Priming call ...
Francesco Tudisco to join 2024 Bayes Innovation Fellows
Francesco Tudisco will be joining the 2024 cohort of Bayes Innovation Fellows. This programme provides early career academics with an innovative suite of training, guidance, funding and exposure to research commercialisation opportunities. Congratulations, ...
Geoff Vasil's research makes the cover of Nature
Congratulations to Geoffrey Vasil and colleagues, whose research on models of the solar dynamo subverts the conventional understanding, was featured on the cover of Volume 629 Issue 8013 of Nature. Volume 629 Issue 8013, 23 May ...
Ilya Chevyrev awarded Rollo Davidson Prize
Ilya Chevyrev is one of the winners of the Rollo Davidson Prize for 2024 for his contributions to rough analysis and singular stochastics PDEs, and in particular to our understanding of the 2D Yang-Mills measure. The Rollo Davidson ...
