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School of Mathematics Staff and Student Video Series

Published: Monday, 31 October 2022 Tags: applicants undergraduate

The School of Mathematics Recruitment Team have produced two series of promotional videos with RareBird Media. "What our students say" is a compilation of videos featuring current undergraduate students in the School who ...

John Baez public lecture: The Mysteries of Fundamental Physics

Published: Thursday, 27 October 2022 Tags: Mathematical Physics

John Baez will give the first of a series of public Leverhulme Lectures at 6pm on Tuesday 29 November, in the Bayes Centre. You can also join us online. Registration is free and open here. The Mysteries of Fundamental Physics In ...

Davey Fitch Lecture

Published: Tuesday, 25 October 2022 Tags: Statistics

The annual Davey Fitch Lecture will return with a lecture from Prof. Arnaud Doucet, a Professor of Statistics at the University of Oxford. Prof. Doucet will discuss how the mathematical sciences and industry have shaped his career ...

Ana Rita Pires cited in Quanta Magazine Fibonacci article

Published: Thursday, 20 October 2022 Tags: Geometry

Ana Rita Pires' work on symplectic geometry as part of a 2019 Association for Women in Mathematics workshop has been cited in a Quanta Magazine article - "Mathematicians Discover the Fibonacci Numbers Hiding in Strange ...

Samples of Mathematics In Data - Data Fringe 2022

Published: Wednesday, 19 October 2022 Tags: Statistics

Five speakers from the School of Mathematics are taking part in this year's Data Fringe: Miguel de Carvalho, Albert Sola Vilalta, Gail Robertson, Des Higham, and Goncalo Dos Reis will present a session on the important role ...

Simon Rozier awarded Newton International Fellowship

Published: Monday, 17 October 2022 Tags: Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Fellowship

Simon Rozier has been awarded a Newton International Fellowship: "The response of globular star clusters to their tidal environment". Simon will work with Anna Lisa Varri on this project which aims at exploring the nexus ...

Chris Dent and Amy Wilson awarded £25,000 for Alan Turing Institute project

Published: Monday, 17 October 2022 Tags: Operational Research funding award

Chris Dent and Amy Wilson, jointly with Lucie Luecke and Gabi Hegerl in Geosciences, have been awarded £25,000 from the University's contribution to the Alan Turing Institute for a project on "Climate analysis for ...

Maths Week Scotland a huge success for the Outreach Team

Published: Wednesday, 5 October 2022 Tags: Geometry Topology outreach Maths Education

Our Mathematics Outreach Team has contributed to the nationwide initiative Maths Week Scotland with a wide range of in person and online events for people of all ages and backgrounds. Our program included workshops for teachers ...

Anna Lisa Varri awarded further UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funding

Published: Thursday, 29 September 2022 Tags: Applied Mathematics Fellowship funding award

Anna Lisa Varri has been awarded the second phase of her UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship: "Rethinking the dynamical paradigm of low-mass stellar systems", which is pursued in collaboration with the Schools of Mathematics ...

Xue Gong Receives SIAM and Edinburgh Teaching Awards

Published: Tuesday, 27 September 2022 Tags: Applied Mathematics Graduate School prizes

Xue Gong, a 4th year MAC-MIGS student, received an Outstanding Talk Award during the September SIAM Networks NS22 Workshop for her Lightning talk on "Generative Hypergraph Models and Spectral Embedding" (joint work with ...

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