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Wednesday, 8 December 2004 |
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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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Wednesday, 1 December 2004 |
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Prof. Frances Kirwan is currently President of the
<a href="http://www.lms.ac.uk/">London Mathematical Society</a>, 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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Wednesday, 24 November 2004 |
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Dr David Acheson gave the Alan Tayler Lecture for 2004 at St Catherine's
College, Oxford. Title: <em>1089 and All That</em>.
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Monday, 8 November 2004 |
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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Sunday, 10 October 2004 |
Roger Penrose was given an honorary degree by the University of Waterloo
(Ontario, Canada) on 2 October 2004.
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Wednesday, 15 September 2004 |
Roger Penrose received the (first) Amaldi Prize by the Italian Society for
Relativity and Gravitation on 13 Sept, 2004
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Tuesday, 24 August 2004 |
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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Tuesday, 24 August 2004 |
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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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Monday, 19 July 2004 |
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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Tuesday, 29 June 2004 |
David Acheson has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship worth
£50,000 in recognition of 'his outstanding contribution to learning and
teaching'. He plans to use the award to attempt a breakthrough in the
communication of mathematics, particularly to students who are about to
start at university.
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