At the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014 on August 13, 2014 in Seoul, Korea, a Fields Medal was awarded to Professor Martin Hairer FRS for his outstanding contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations, and in particular for the creation of a theory of regularity structures for such equations.

Professor Mark Pollicott has been awarded a 5-year EPSRC Leadership Fellowship for his proposal: ''Applications of ergodic theory to geometry''.

On Friday 18th July, Professor Nigel Hitchin FRS was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science.

The publication earlier this month in Nature by Ellen Brooks Pollock (Cambridge), Gareth Roberts (Statistics) and Matt Keeling (Mathematics and Life Sciences) of their joint paper has stirred up a great deal of interest not just in the scientific community but also the daily newspapers and BBC TV news.

On Thursday 3rd June Professor Karen Vogtmann was awarded a Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

The Faculty of Science has inaugurated prizes for the best PhD theses in each of the science departments.

Three Warwick mathematicians have been awarded prestigious prizes for their work by the London Mathematical Society (LMS).

The University of Warwick's Mathematics Department was placed 4th in the Guardian league table for mathematics for the 2015 entry.

Associate Professor Oleg Zaboronski has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2014–15 to investigate Eigenvalue processes for matrix-valued Brownian motions.

Professor Karen Vogtmann has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship for 2014–15 to investigate “Outer spaces in geometric group theory”.