Andrew Lo, Harris and Harris Group Professor of Finance at MIT, delivers the 2009 Nomura Lecture entitled "Kill all the quants? Model vs. Mania in the current financial crisis" on 19th May 2009 |
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Ubuntu Linux Firefox updateDue to a security hole, Firefox needs to be updated on all Linux machines today. The updates will occur on all desktops between 5pm and 10pm today. There is no action required, but you might notice that you get error messages when browsing the web. In this case simply close all Firefox windows and restart Firefox again. That should clear all the problems. |
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Martin Bridson to give an Abel LectureMartin Bridson will give one of the Abel Lectures on the occasion of Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov's award. |
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Mothers in ScienceOn Tuesday 3rd February 2009, the Royal Society held an event to celebrate the work of the past winners of the Rosalind Franklin Award. This event also marked the launch of the latest project to be completed by Professor Ottoline Leyser, winner of the 2007 Rosalind Franklin Award. This was a book publishing the professional and personal time lines of 64 senior ranking female scientists working in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The book is entitled Mothers in Science: 64 ways to have it all. Three of the featured individuals are Oxford Mathematicians Frances Kirwan (on page 30), Ulrike Tillmann (on page 45) and Alison Etheridge (on page 57). |
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Raphaël Rouquier wins the 2009 Adams PrizeThe Adams Prize is awarded jointly each year by the Faculty of Mathematics and St John's College Cambridge to a young (normally under 40 years of age), UK-based researcher doing first class international research in the Mathematical Sciences. This year's topic was Representation Theory, and the Prize has been awarded to Professor Raphaël Rouquier of the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. Professor Timothy Pedley, Chairman of the Adams Prize Adjudicators, said:
For further information see the original Cambridge University news article |
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Alan and Marcus Go Forth and MultiplyThe much anticipated Horizon programme on Mathematics, presented by Marcus du Sautoy and Alan Davies will be shown on Tue 31 March, at 9pm on BBC2. The programme is called "Alan and Marcus Go Forth and Multiply". |
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One-Day Meeting in CombinatoricsA One-Day Meeting in Combinatorics will be held in the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford on Wednesday 18 March 2009. |
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Mathematical Institute joins OpenCourseWare ConsortiumThe Mathematical Institute has for many years made almost all of the course materials published on its website accessible for others to read. At the beginning of the academic year 2008/9 the department started making some material more widely available under the principles of the Open CourseWare Consortium. Lecturers are generally encouraged to make their material available under these terms. The department became a formal member of the Open CourseWare Consortium at the beginning of March 2009. For further information see the current list of Open CourseWare course materials available and the departmental notice on the Open CourseWare Consortium. |
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The Measurement Problem of PhysicsAt 9am on Thursday 5th March there will a Radio 4 programme on 'The Measurement Problem of Physics' featuring Melvyn Bragg, Basil Hiley, Roger Penrose (of the Mathematical Institute) and Simon Saunders (of the Faculty of Philosophy). The programme will be repeated at 9:30pm also on Thursday 5th March |
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The 5th Oxford-Princeton Workshop on Financial Mathematics & Stochastic Analysis is held in Princeton, 27th-28th March 2008The 5th Oxford-Princeton Workshop on Financial Mathematics & Stochastic Analysis is held in Princeton, 27th-28th March 2008 |