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Professor Jim Murray, former member of the Mathematical Institute and founder of the Centre for Mathematical Biology, will be presented with the 2011 Leonardo da Vinci Award of the European Academy of Sciences at a ceremony in Milan on 11th November.

See http://www.eurasc.org/docs/2011/Milano_invitation.pdf (Jim's citation is on page 5) for further details.

A ground breaking ceremony was held at noon on 2nd August 2011 to mark the official beginning of the construction phase for the new maths building.

See the new building section of the website for more information on the project including pictures showing how the building will look and time lapse movies showing recent activity on site.

Kostas Zygalakis (OCCAM) and Richard Norton (OxMoS) were awarded second prizes in the 2011 Leslie Fox Prize competition in Numerical Analysis. For details of the prize, and of the prize-winners' talks, see http://www.mims.manchester.ac.uk/events/workshops/FOX2011/ . Kostas works on numerical methods for stochastic differential equations, and Richard works on convergence analysis of planewave expansion methods for Schroedinger operators with discontinuous periodic potentials.

This coming Wednesday (27th July, 21:00) sees the return of Marcus Du Sautoy to our TV screens in his new BBC programme, The Code. The Code is a three-part TV series about maths in the world around us. The Code is also a treasure hunt!

Further details can be found at the programme website

Professor Caroline Series speaks on “Indra’s Pearls,” the patterns created by iterating conformal maps of the complex plane called Möbius transformations, and their connections with symmetry and self-similarity

Lecture in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, followed by a reception at St Anne’s College

Further details and registration form
Registration closes on: Friday 8 July 2011

We are delighted to announce that three Oxford mathematicians have been awarded London Mathematical Society prizes this year: the Naylor Prize and Lecture to Bryce McLeod, the Senior Whitehead Prize to Jonathan Pila and a Whitehead Prize to Barbara Niethammer. Congratulations to them all.

Further details can be found on the LMS website

The 15th Biennial Oxford/Cambridge Applied Mathematics Meeting was won by Oxford.  The Woolly Owl Trophy is now back in the halls of OCIAM in Dartington House.

This event has taken place biennially since 1983. Fifteen minute talks are given by young researchers. They are judged by two distinguished academics from other institutions who award the winning university the coveted Woolly Owl.  However, this year there were three judges: John Harper (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Arash Yavari (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA), Sharon Stephen (University of Birmingham, UK).

Speakers and talks are listed on the OCIAM web pages.  The next event will be hosted by Cambridge in 2013.

Yasemin Sengul, a recent graduate of the department, has won the Oxford University Graduate Photography Competition 2011. The picture and further details are available.

We are delighted to report the recent final stage approval of the Mathematical Institute new building by the University Council. With this approval, construction is set to commence later this summer with a projected two year build timeline. We plan to be settled in to the new building for the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year.

However, this does not mean that work to secure funding will cease. We aim to raise another £19.3M in addition to the £10.1M which has been raised to date. This will ensure that the department enters the new building in a good financial position, fully able to make the best use of the new, inspiring environment. We look forward to providing you with news and updates on the building as work progresses.

The 8th June 2011 is World IPv6 Day.

The department is showing its support for this event by enabling IPv6 connectivity to several of its websites:

• http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/
• http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/
• http://eprints.maths.ox.ac.uk/
• http://www.maths-in-industry.org/

The last unreserved IPv4 address blocks were allocated at the end of January 2011.

You can click here to see if you're accessing the Maths website via IPv6.