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Saturday, 16 June 2012 |
Congratulations to three members of the Mathematical Institute who were recognised in the 2012 Teaching Awards exercise, held across the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. Jon Chapman and Kathryn Gillow won two of the four Individual Awards for their outstanding contribution to undergraduate and graduate teaching respectively, and Martin Griffiths won the Project Award for his project on problem-solving for undergraduates.
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Saturday, 2 June 2012 |
St Hugh's undergraduate Stephanie Crampin has been awarded a national prize, the British Society for the History of Mathematics undergraduate essay prize. Stephanie took paper O1 (History of Mathematics) as one of her options this year.
The BSHM announcement follows:
"The BSHM is pleased to announce the inaugural winners of its undergraduate essay prize as Stephanie Crampin for an essay entitled The contribution of Évariste Galois to the founding of group theory and Nicole Johannesen for The application of mathematical understanding in the ancient Olympic Games. Stephanie is a third year student studying mathematics and philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford and Nicole a third year student studying mathematics at St Andrews University.
Though on very different topics the judging panel felt that amongst the submissions received, these two could not be separated in terms of overall standard and hence concluded two prizes should be awarded this year.
The Society was pleased with the range and quality of all the submissions it received this year with BSHM President, Professor Robin Wilson, stating 'I am very pleased that, in this the inaugural year of the undergraduate essay prize, the standard has been so high. This indicates not only the excellent standards of teaching of the history of mathematics in many universities across the UK, but also the creativity and enthusiasm of our undergraduates. We look forward to seeing another set of excellent submissions for the 2012-13 prize.'"
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Saturday, 2 June 2012 |
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Monday, 14 May 2012 |
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Wednesday, 9 May 2012 |
Jen Pestana has been awarded the prize for the best student paper at the 12th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods.
More details are available.
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Saturday, 28 April 2012 |
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Saturday, 28 April 2012 |
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 |
Congratulations to Andrew Dancer, Anne Henke and Jan Kristensen, who have been awarded the title of Professor in the University's recent Recognition of Distinction exercise.
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011 |
The
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, USA) awards the
SIAG/Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Prize (one prize every
two years) to the authors of the most outstanding paper, as determined
by the committee, on a topic in Partial Differential Equations published
in English in a peer-reviewed journal in the four calendar years
preceding the year of the award.
The
committee wishes to recognize Gui-Qiang G. Chen and Mikhail Feldman for
their paper, "Global Solutions of Shock Reflection by Large-Angle
Wedges for Potential Flow," Annals of Mathematics, Volume 171, Issue 2
(2010), 1067-1182, "in which they proved the existence and stability of a
solution for the equations of two-dimensional compressible gas
dynamics, for the case of a shock reflection from a wedge. This
problem, originating with work of Ernst Mach, has long defied careful
mathematical analysis."
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Thursday, 20 October 2011 |
The Tissue and Cell Engineering Society has awarded its Early Stage Investigator prize to Rebecca Shipley, of OCIAM; Becky is also a JRF at Christ Church. Her research involves the use of mathematical modelling techniques in medical systems. Her talk was entitled 'Fluid and mass transport modelling to drive the design of cell-packed hollow fibre bioreactors'.
See http://www.tces.org/pastconferenceleeds2011_css.html for further details.
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