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Kostas Zygalakis (OCCAM) and Richard Norton (OxMoS) were awarded second prizes in the 2011 Leslie Fox Prize competition in Numerical Analysis. For details of the prize, and of the prize-winners' talks, see http://www.mims.manchester.ac.uk/events/workshops/FOX2011/ . Kostas works on numerical methods for stochastic differential equations, and Richard works on convergence analysis of planewave expansion methods for Schroedinger operators with discontinuous periodic potentials.

Professor Caroline Series speaks on “Indra’s Pearls,” the patterns created by iterating conformal maps of the complex plane called Möbius transformations, and their connections with symmetry and self-similarity

Lecture in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, followed by a reception at St Anne’s College

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Registration closes on: Friday 8 July 2011

The 15th Biennial Oxford/Cambridge Applied Mathematics Meeting was won by Oxford.  The Woolly Owl Trophy is now back in the halls of OCIAM in Dartington House.

This event has taken place biennially since 1983. Fifteen minute talks are given by young researchers. They are judged by two distinguished academics from other institutions who award the winning university the coveted Woolly Owl.  However, this year there were three judges: John Harper (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Arash Yavari (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA), Sharon Stephen (University of Birmingham, UK).

Speakers and talks are listed on the OCIAM web pages.  The next event will be hosted by Cambridge in 2013.

We are delighted to report the recent final stage approval of the Mathematical Institute new building by the University Council. With this approval, construction is set to commence later this summer with a projected two year build timeline. We plan to be settled in to the new building for the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year.

However, this does not mean that work to secure funding will cease. We aim to raise another £19.3M in addition to the £10.1M which has been raised to date. This will ensure that the department enters the new building in a good financial position, fully able to make the best use of the new, inspiring environment. We look forward to providing you with news and updates on the building as work progresses.