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Martin Bridson will give one of the Abel Lectures on the occasion of Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov's award.

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The 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:

The quality, depth and influence of Professor Rouquier's work is already highly impressive. He has a long list of fundamental results, extending back to the late 1990s, on both the two main areas of representation theory: representations of general finite-dimensional algebras and derived categories, and representations of Lie groups in various forms.

Every one of the six papers submitted by Professor Rouquier has already had a major impact, despite the fact that no fewer than four of them were published in 2008 alone.

For further information see the original Cambridge University news article

The 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".

A One-Day Meeting in Combinatorics will be held in the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford on Wednesday 18 March 2009.

Further information is available.

The 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.

At 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

In January 2009 Tsou Sheung Tsun was elected President of CIMPA (International Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics). This is a UNESCO Centre, mainly supported by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and is based in Nice. Its mission is to promote research in the mathematical sciences in the developing world.

Junaid Mubeen won the 59th series on countdown on 12 December 2008 on last programme to be hosted by Des O'Connor and Carol Vordermann. He has been an Oxford mathematics student and a member of St Anne's College, since 2003.

Junaid completed an MMath degree in 2007 and is now studying for a DPhil. His supervisor, Professor Charles Batty, said "I shall be delighted if he is as successful in his mathematical research as he has been in his television appearances".

Rachel Riley, Oriel 2004, is to fill the role vacated by Carol Vordermann on the popular quiz show Countdown.

See the Times Online article for more details.