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Online Maths Circle
On Wednesday 5th August Francesca Iezzi and the Maths Outreach Team ran their first virtual Maths Circle for children aged 7-14 and their families. The event was a virtual version of the popular Maths Circles. More than 150 people ...
Prof. Chris Dent on data, algorithms and 2020 national assessment
Prof. Chris Dent writes on the issues around award of marks for national high school exams in the UK under Covid.
Sjoerd Beentjes has collaborated with others on a paper; "Pervasive lesion segregation shapes cancer genome evolution"
Sjoerd Beentjes has collaborated with others, from across multiple Universities and Organisations, to produce an article discussing the effects of damage to DNA with regards to the development of cancer cells. This work took place ...
Andreas Grothey and Ken McKinnon have set up a Covid-19 related optimization model
Andreas Grothey and Ken McKinnon have set up an optimization model that finds the optimal Covid-19 intervention strategy for Scotland. This is achieved by considering the options of lockdown and contact tracing for different assumed ...
Three School of Mathematics students take part in MOPTA competition
The team "NP Die Hard", consisting of Paula Fermin Cueto, Ivona Gjeroska and Albert Sola from the SoM, have competed in the international MOPTA competition this year. They contested, with the help of their advisor Prof. ...
Students from across the University take part in DataFest @ EDI 2020
Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel organised and ran a Datafest event for students from the School of Mathematics and the rest of the University. This took place over two weeks between May the 30th and June the 13th 2020. Student's ...
LMS Fellowship won by Milena Hering
Milena Hering has won an Emmy Noether Fellowship from the LMS.
LMS Prizes won by Ben Davison and Des Higham
Congratulations to: Ben Davison who won one of this year's LMS Whitehead Prizes https://www.lms.ac.uk/sites/lms.ac.uk/files/files/Davison_Whitehead_citation.pdf Des Higham who won the LMS Shephard Prize (https://www.lms.ac.uk/sites/lms.ac.uk/files/files/Higham_Shephard_citation.pdf) ...
Academics from the School of Maths are taking part in a scientific endeavour, DECOVID.
Ruth King (co-deputy team lead), Nicolò Margaritella, Michael Allerhand and Gail Robertson from the School of Mathematics are taking part in a COVID related scientific endeavour. This UoE team is composed of 13 members and includes ...
George Kinnear has been awarded funds to back a project which will help deliver and enhance higher education
George Kinnear has been awarded $10,000, in the 2020 U21 Global Educational Enhancement Fund Call, to back a project which will help deliver and enhance higher education. The project team consists of Chris Sangwin, University ...