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Dr Eamonn O'Brien Visits Oxford

Dr Eamonn O'Brien (University of Auckland) is in Oxford on a two and half week visit funded by EPSRC grant GR/S86259/01. During his visit he gave a talk to the Algebra Seminar, and has also given talks in Manchester, Canterbury & Birmingham. During his visit Eamonn O'Brien and Michael Vaughan-Lee have finalized their database of groups of order p^7. They have also settled an old problem on whether every finite p-group can be generated by a set of elements all having the same order - the answer is "No".

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Trio of LMS positions held by Mathematical Institute Members

Prof. Frances Kirwan is currently President of the London Mathematical Society, just beginning her second year of office. Nick Woodhouse is the LMS Treasurer and Brian Stewart is the LMS Education Secretary.

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Alan Tayler Lecture

Dr David Acheson gave the Alan Tayler Lecture for 2004 at St Catherine's College, Oxford. Title: 1089 and All That.

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Prof. Frances Kirwan awarded an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship

Frances Kirwan has been awarded an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship for five years, starting at Easter 2005. (The EPSRC usually awards three such fellowships each year in engineering and the physical sciences). She will be working on a research project in algebraic geometry, studying moduli spaces of complex algebraic curves.

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Prof. Roger Penrose receives an Honary Degree from the University of Waterloo

Roger Penrose was given an honorary degree by the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) on 2 October 2004.

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Prof. Roger Penrose receives the first Amaldi Prize

Roger Penrose received the (first) Amaldi Prize by the Italian Society for Relativity and Gravitation on 13 Sept, 2004

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The Road to Reality

The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose was published in the UK on 29 July 2004. It reached the Sunday Times best-seller list two weeks in succession. It is due to be published in USA early in 2005.

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Prof. Dominic Welsh awarded Visiting Oxford Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Prof. Dominic Welsh has been awarded a three month Visiting Oxford Fellowship at the University of Canterbury beginning on 1 September 2005.

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Terence John Lyons named IMS Fellow

Terence John Lyons, Wallis Professor of Mathematics, St. Anne's College, University of Oxford was named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). The induction ceremony took place July 28, 2004 at the IMS Annual Meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

Professor Lyons received the award for fundamental contributions to analysis and probability, ranging from those of a purely geometric character to applications in financial management.

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Katerina Kaouri wins prize for best student talk

The prize for the best short talk in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Student 2004 Symposium on a graduate research project was awarded to Katerina Kaouri, OCIAM, for her talk "Modelling Sonic Boom".

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