Peter Grindrod CBE appointed Visiting Professor in Industrial Mathematics
Congratulations to Peter Grindrod, who is to be Visiting Professor in Industrial Mathematics for three years from July 2005
Peter Grindrod CBE appointed Visiting Professor in Industrial MathematicsCongratulations to Peter Grindrod, who is to be Visiting Professor in Industrial Mathematics for three years from July 2005 |
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Marcus du Sautoy awarded a Senior Media FellowshipMarcus du Sautoy has been awarded a Senior Media Fellowship from the EPSRC. The fellowship will run for three years starting in October 2005. The aim of the fellowship is to continue the Institute's outreach activity by promoting mathematics on radio, TV and through the print media. |
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Royal Institution Masterclasses for Year-9 School ChildrenFour classes, each lasting 3 hours on Saturday mornings at the end of November and the beginning of December, were given for 40 year-9 (13 year-old) Oxfordshire school children. They were held at Queen's College. The lecturers were:
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Prof. Dominic Welsh to give a plenary talk at Combinatorics Meeting in Taupo, New ZealandProf. Dominic Welsh will be a plenary speaker at the Combinatorics meeting organised by the New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications in Taupo next week. |
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Mind GamesMarcus du Sautoy is presenting Mind Games on BBC4 on Mondays at 9:00 and Wednesdays at 10:00. |
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Prof. S. Jon Chapman awarded a University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Visiting Oxford FellowshipJon Chapman has spent Michaelmas 2004 at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand on a Visiting Oxford Fellowship. |
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Dr Eamonn O'Brien Visits OxfordDr 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 MembersProf. 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 LectureDr 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 FellowshipFrances 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. |