February 2021: Congratulations to our Maths Bloggers

Congratulations to Susie Gabriel (UG, 1st year), Nilusha Perera (UG, 2nd year) and Moh Huda (PGR, PhD) for their new roles as our official maths bloggers on OurWarwick. They will be sharing their experiences as Warwick maths students with prospective and current students through monthly blogs and vlogs. Please visit:

Susie’s blogs: https://our.warwick.ac.uk/profile/susiegabriel/

Nilusha’s blogs: https://our.warwick.ac.uk/profile/nilushaperera/

Moh’s blogs: https://our.warwick.ac.uk/profile/mohhuda/

They will be working alongside our veteran blogger Laeticia Junanto.

Laeticia’s blogs: https://our.warwick.ac.uk/profile/laeticiajunanto/

Congratulations to David Loeffler for being awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator grant entitled "Shimura varieties and the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture". This grant will focus on one of the most famous open problems in mathematics, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.

Congratulations to Kat Rock for winning the HATMEPP II Grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This $2.2m grant is for the modelling of Human African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness). Building on her earlier HATMEPP project, this grant will run from 2021 to 2024.

Joel Moreira has been awarded the 2020 Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians for his out standing work on ergodic Ramsey theory and his joint proof of the Erdos sumset conjecture.

Award details

Professor John Greenlees had been elected fellow of the American Mathematical Society, for contributions to commutative algebra and algebraic topology, in particular to equivariant stable homotopy theory.

AMS fellowship page.

Even in the absence of our usual strawberry tea celebration, we have still be able to award our students high levels of attainment during 2019/20

The Warwick Mathematics Institute is saddened to hear of the passing of Prof. Lawrence Markus in January 2020.

Adam Haper has been awarded an LMS Whitehead Prize for his deep and important contributions to analytic number theory, and in particular for his work on the value distribution of the Riemann zeta-function and random multiplicative functions using sophisticated ideas and techniques from probability theory.

We are sorry to report that Professor Elmer Rees, from the first cohort of PhD students in Warwick, died on 4th October 2019.

Dr Adam Harper has been awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for his outstanding contributions to analytic and probabilistic number theory. The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, founded by Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA) located near Kumbakonam, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan's hometown, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Ramanujan's fields of interest.