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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 |
The 2010 JPBM Communications Award is made to Marcus du Sautoy,
Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and
Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
The JPBM (Joint Policy Board for Mathematics) is an umbrella organization for four major American
mathematical societies: the American Mathematical Society, the
American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of
America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
The JPBM Communications Award was established in 1988 to recognize
journalists, mathematicians, and others who, on a sustained basis,
bring mathematical ideas and information to non-mathematical audiences.
The award recognizes a significant accumulated contribution to the
public understanding of mathematics.
For the past fifteen years Professor du Sautoy has complemented
his love of mathematical discovery with a passion for communicating
mathematics to a broad public. He has reached hundreds of thousands
through his books, television shows, and hundreds of articles
and appearances in newspapers, magazines, television, and radio.
His 2003 book on the Riemann Hypothesis, entitled "The Music of the
Primes", is a best-seller which has been translated into 10 languages.
In his 2008 book "Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature", du
Sautoy guides the reader through groups and symmetry, from Babylonia
to moonshine theory, while at the same time giving an engaging
glimpse into mathematicians' minds. His four part television, the
Story of Maths, presents a fascinating look at the development of
mathematics from the design of the pyramids in Egypt to Perelman's
proof of Poincaré's Conjecture.
Whether it is talking about Beckham's choice of number on a sports
radio program, explaining the work of the Abel prize winner on
Norwegian television, writing a weekly math column for the London
Times, hosting a television game show based on math puzzles, or
delivering the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Marcus du Sautoy
invariably seizes opportunities to make mathematics more accessible
and more appealing.
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Thursday, 31 December 2009 |
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009 |
Congratulations to Cornelia Drutu Badea on the award of the title
Professor of Mathematics.
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Monday, 9 November 2009 |
Endre Süli was elected Foreign Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts at the General Assembly of the Academy, which was held in Belgrade on 5th November.
The Academy, founded as the Serbian Royal Academy in 1886, is the Serbian national academy. It is the highest academic institution in the country, whose members are elected triennially.
This year's list of new Foreign Members also includes the President of the Czech Republic, the economist, Vaclav Klaus; the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt; and the Swedish Nobel Laureate, neurophysiologist, Torsten Wiesel.
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Wednesday, 12 August 2009 |
We are pleased to announce the following awards:
A Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Dr Brian Stewart.
Individual Teaching Development Awards go to Professor Charles Batty, Dr
Jackie Stedall and Dr Robin Knight.
A Teaching Development Award goes to Dr Jackie Stedall and Dr Cath
Wilkins.
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Monday, 13 July 2009 |
Congratulations to John Ball, who has been awarded the Royal Society's
Sylvester Medal, and to Marcus du Sautoy, who has won the Michael
Faraday Prize.
Further info available.
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Friday, 3 July 2009 |
Pólya Prize - awarded in recognition of outstanding creativity in, imaginative exposition of, or distinguished contribution to, mathematics within the United Kingdom
The Pólya Prize is awarded to Professor Roger Heath-Brown, of the University of Oxford, for his many contributions within analytic number theory, and his dynamic application of analytic methods in wide-ranging investigations of problems spanning number theory and arithmetic geometry.
Throughout his career, Heath-Brown has regularly produced papers that have resolved long-standing problems or have presented novel techniques that have decisively changed the landscape. He has been able to devise variations of well-established techniques that permit conclusions going well beyond what was previously thought to be possible. In consequence, he is responsible for many of the sharpest conclusions available in the most important problems stretching across analytic number theory and beyond.
Naylor Prize and Lectureship - awarded in recognition of work in and influence on Applied Mathematics or the Applications of Mathematics; or lecturing gifts
The Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics is awarded to Professor Philip Maini, of the University of Oxford, in recognition of his contributions to, and influence on, the field of mathematical biology.
In recent years, mathematical biology has experienced very rapid growth, and has established itself as an area that is driving the evolution of much new mathematics, as well as having an increasing impact on the biological sciences. Maini has been at the forefront of many of these developments. Many of the problems that he studies necessitate the formulation and analysis of new models, requiring him to bring to bear both knowledge of the relevant biology and mathematical skills. He is unsurpassed by his peers at the art and science of formulating tractable mathematical models of complex biological processes.
Whitehead Prize
A Whitehead Prize is awarded to Dr Cornelia Druţu, of the University of Oxford, for her work in geometric group theory.
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Wednesday, 1 July 2009 |
Raphael Rouquier has been awarded the Elie Cartan Prize from the French Academy of
Sciences.
This is a triennial prize awarded to a mathematician aged under 45, of any
nationality, who has accomplished an important body of work, either
through the introduction of new ideas or by solving a difficult problem.
The prize was created in 1980 and the previous winners are
Dennis Sullivan, Mikhail Gromov, Johannes Sjostrand, Jean Bourgain,
Clifford Taubes, Don Zagier, Laurent Clozel, Jean-Benoit Bost and
Emmanuel Ullmo.
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Friday, 1 May 2009 |
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Friday, 10 April 2009 |
The Adams Prize is awarded jointly each year by the Faculty of Mathematics and St John's College Cambridge to a young (normally under 40 years of age), UK-based researcher doing first class international research in the Mathematical Sciences.
This year's topic was Representation Theory, and the Prize has been awarded to Professor Raphaël Rouquier of the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
Professor Timothy Pedley, Chairman of the Adams Prize Adjudicators, said:
The quality, depth and influence of Professor Rouquier's work is already highly impressive. He has a long list of fundamental results, extending back to the late 1990s, on both the two main areas of representation theory: representations of general finite-dimensional algebras and derived categories, and representations of Lie groups in various forms.
Every one of the six papers submitted by Professor Rouquier has already had a major impact, despite the fact that no fewer than four of them were published in 2008 alone.
For further information see the original Cambridge University news article
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