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Saturday, 3 July 2010 |
Warm congratulations to Bill Morton, who has won the 2010 De Morgan Medal.
The De Morgan Medal is the most prestigious prize of the London Mathematical Society (LMS)
Professor Morton’s work concerns understanding the flow of liquids and
his results have influenced a wide range of fields, from weather
forecasting to the design of power stations and from the development of
aircraft engines to the growth of scientific computing.
LMS president Professor Angus MacIntyre FRS, said, “A hallmark of
Professor Morton's work is the creation of original, elegant mathematics
in the service of real-world applications. The London Mathematical
Society is proud to honour a mathematician who has changed the way we
look at the numerical analysis of partial differential equations through
his world-leading research results, his vision and his dynamic
leadership qualities.”
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Wednesday, 9 June 2010 |
The Royal Society has awarded the 2010 Sylvester Medal to Dr Graeme Segal FRS for his highly influential and elegant work on the development of topology, geometry and quantum field theory, bridging the gap between physics and pure mathematics.
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Friday, 21 May 2010 |
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Tuesday, 27 April 2010 |
Colin Macdonald has been awarded the 2010 SIAM Richard C. DiPrima Prize, making him the 11th recepient of the award.
Jon Chapman, currently the Professor of Mathematics and its Applications and Director of the departmental research group OCIAM, is a former winner, being awarded the DiPrima prize in 1994.
The SIAM Richard C. DiPrima Prize is awarded every other year to a junior scientist for outstanding research in applied mathematics based on the doctoral dissertation.
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Thursday, 22 April 2010 |
Oxford DPhil student Muhammad Imran Qureshi received one of 4 prizes "for
best talks given by students" at the Maths 2010 meeting (combined
BMC/BAMC), held 6-9 April 2010 in Edinburgh. There was a total of 90 talks
given by students at the meeting. Mr Qureshi is a student of Balazs
Szendroi; his talk was entitled Some new families of Calabi-Yau 3-folds
in weighted flag varieties.
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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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