Mathematics Institute News

Professor Ian Stewart has been elected as a member of the Council of the Royal Society

Guardian article about Saul Schleimer and Henry Segerman

Philip Leverhulme Prizes are awarded to outstanding scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study, recognised at an international level, and where the expectation is that their greatest achievement is yet to come. 5 prizes are awarded in Mathematics and Statistics every 2 years.

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).