Tyrone Rees Wins 1st Prize in a Student Paper CompetitionTyrone Rees, a graduate student in the Numerical Analysis Group, has just won a 1st prize in the student paper competition of the Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods (Colorado, USA). |
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[RESOLVED] Wireless network in Dartington House is unstableDue to hardware problems, the wireless network in Dartington House is very unstable, it currently works intermittently. We are doing our best to keep it going, but need for the supplier to get back to us in order to resolve the problem. ---These problems have been worked around during the last week and fully resolved today (Mon 15th March) |
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Loss of Network Connectivity Between our Buildings - 7:45am 2/3/2010There was an unscheduled outage of the connections to the university backbone network this morning at about 7:45am resulting in disruption for up to an hour. Since the network connections between our five sites goes over the backbone this had an impact on the departmental systems. OUCS have identified the cause of the outage and resolved the issue. Departmental systems should generally be back in operation now, if you experience any problems please report them as normal. |
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March 2010EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Secondment (KTS)BBSRC Responsive Research GrantsEPSRC UK-China Research Projects in Carbon Capture and Storage TechnologiesIsaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences: Visitor ProgrammeLondon Mathematical Society: Conference GrantsLondon Mathematical Society: Connectivity GrantsLondon Mathematical Society: Collaborative Small GrantsJohn Fell Fund: Trinity Term 2010London Mathematical Society: International Congress of Mathematicians GrantsRoyal Society: Research GrantsEPSRC Knowledge Transfer Secondment (KTS)
Eligibility: This funding stream is intended to improve the exploitation of EPSRC research outcomes through the transfer of people between universities and 'user organisations', which may be government departments, NHS, Charities and industry. However, unless approved by EPSRC, the secondment must be hosted in the UK. The funding can be used to support both outward secondments and inward secondments, with different eligibility conditions applying in each case. The attachment below gives further information. BBSRC Responsive Research Grants
Eligibility: Applications for funding must be within any of the following remits; animal systems, health and wellbeing; plants, microbes, food and sustainability; technological and methodological development; molecules, cells and industrial biotechnology. EPSRC UK-China Research Projects in Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies
Eligibility: Aimed at encouraging new and innovative UK-China collaborative projects focusing on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. Funds of up to £2 million from the Energy Programme/EPSRC and matching equivalent resources from the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) are available to support high quality projects in this call, projects should be up to three years in duration. Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences: Visitor Programme
Eligibility: The Institute invites proposals for research programmes in any branch of mathematics or the mathematical sciences. The Scientific Steering Committee usually meets twice each year to consider proposals for programmes (of 4-week, 4-month or 6-month duration) to run two or three years later. London Mathematical Society: Conference Grants
Eligibility: Grants are made to the organisers of conferences to be held in the United Kingdom. Any mathematician based in the UK is eligible to apply for a grant, but if the applicant is not a member of the Society then the application must be countersigned by a member who is prepared to support the application. Applications should be made by one of the organisers of the conference. Programme Committee tends to give priority to the support of meetings where an LMS grant can be expected to make a significant contribution to the viability and success of the meeting. The Society expects that the meetings which it supports will be open to all, and will only support a closed meeting if an exceptional case is made. Support of larger meetings of high quality is not ruled out, but for such meetings an LMS grant will normally cover only a modest part of the total cost. London Mathematical Society: Connectivity Grants
Eligibility: Grants are made towards the cost of exploring potential new collaborations between mathematicians and non-mathematicians on new applications of mathematics. Any mathematician working in the UK is eligible to apply for a grant, but if none of the applicants is a member of the Society then the application must be countersigned by an LMS member who is prepared to support the application. The use of the grants is not restricted but might include the costs of a small-scale meeting to identify problems or travel costs to bring in external experts. The intention is to help the applicants do the preparatory work prior to a larger scale application to EPSRC. London Mathematical Society: Collaborative Small Grants
Eligibility: Funding which is intended to provide a small grant to a mathematician within the UK to help support a visit for collaborative research. The visit may be made either by the grantee to another institution within the UK or abroad, or by a named mathematician from within the UK or abroad to the home base of the grantee. The time available for joint research arising from the grant is expected to be at least several working days. Any mathematician based in the UK is eligible to apply for a grant, but if the applicant is not a member of the Society then the application must be countersigned by a member who is prepared to support the application. Applicants should bear in mind that the purpose of the scheme is to support specific projects with named collaborators and not, for example, simply to contribute to the costs of a sabbatical visit. The Committee will support only mathematical activities or the mathematical component of wider activities, and here the word mathematical excludes mathematics education. John Fell Fund: Trinity Term 2010
Eligibility: The fund does not provide support for studentships. To be eligible for start-up support as an 'early career researcher', applicants must be both within the first 5 years in post as an independent researcher at Oxford and in the early stages of their research career. More experienced researchers who are new in post can still apply to the Fund for support, but will need to do so under other categories e.g. for specific pump-priming support, rather than general start up. Departments and potential applicant are advised to read the new FAQ section on the Fell Fund website: London Mathematical Society: International Congress of Mathematics Grants
Eligibility: To be used for making grants to support the attendance of UK-based mathematicians at the ICM in Hyderabad from 19-27th August 2010 (http://www.icm2010.org.in). The grants are not to be used for support at satellite meetings. The Society would particularly like to support those in the early stage of their career, including postdoctoral researchers but not usually PhD students. You do not need to be a member of the LMS to apply. Applicants must have been unsuccessful in applying for a Royal Society International Travel Grant (the February 2010 round), based in the UK and involved in mathematics at postdoctoral level and above. Royal Society: Research Grants
Eligibility: The Research Grants scheme provides 'seed corn' funding for new projects of timeliness and promise initiated by research scientists at an early stage of their career (within the first 5 years of the start date of their first permanent academic position). The objective of the scheme is to increase the availability of specialised equipment and essential consumable materials, and to support essential field research. The scheme also provides support for research in the history of science or to assist with publication of scholarly works in the history of science. Applicants must be resident in the UK, they should have postdoctoral level or
equivalent status at the time of the application and have a permanent or
limited-tenure position in an eligible organisation. An applicant who is a post
doctorate paid by a grant for which someone else is the principal investigator
is not eligible. Applicants must play a major part and take a leading role in
the project and not make its fulfilment more than marginally dependent on the
services of postgraduate/doctoral students. |
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25th British Topology Meeting, Merton College 6-8 September 2010This year the British Topology Meeting will take place in Merton College, Oxford, from Monday 6th to Wednesday 8th of September 2010. We hope that the meeting will be an opportunity to reinforce the strengths of the community of British topology and we aim to represent many of the facets of current topology. For more information please see the BTM webpage. The event is being supported by the London Mathematical Society and Merton College. Organisers: Jeffrey Giansiracusa ( @email ) and Oscar Randal-Williams ( @email ) |
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Nomura funding renewedNomura International plc has recently renewed its sponsorship with an uplifted funding for the Nomura Centre for Mathematical Finance (NCMF) at the Mathematical Institute, for another five years, starting from April 2010. Xunyu Zhou, Nomura Professor of Mathematical Finance and the Director of NCMF, says, We are very pleased with the continuing partnership between Oxford and Nomura, which has become exemplary for academic-industry collaborations. It is also a great vote of confidence from Nomura in the rapidly expanding Mathematical Finance group in Oxford. The new funding will support among others the Nomura Chair, 2 Nomura Research Fellows, the annual Nomura Lecture, the weekly Nomura Seminar series, and academic visitors to the Centre. |
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February 2010EPSRC Industrial CASE Studentship Competition 2010
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Marcus du Sautoy to receive 2010 JPBM Communications AwardThe 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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January 2010Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Bursaries
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Marcus du Sautoy to receive an OBECongratulations to Marcus du Sautoy on the award of an OBE for services to Science. |