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Faculty Prizes Winners Announced
The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine at the University of Warwick is pleased to announce this year's winners of the faculty prizes for the best theses and post-doctoral research projects and papers in 2025.
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Best Paper Award at STOC 2025
We are delighted to announce that a result coauthored by Sayan Bhattacharya and Martin Costa (from our Theory and Foundations Research Division), along with Sepehr Assadi (University of Waterloo), Soheil Behnezhad (Northeastern University), Shay Solomon (Tel Aviv University) and Tianyi Zhang (ETH Zurich), has received a best paper award at the upcoming ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2025. STOC is a flagship international conference in theoretical computer science.
The paper, titled "Vizing's Theorem in Near-Linear Time," tackles a fundamental, textbook edge-coloring problem: Given a graph G with n vertices and m edges, the goal is to assign a color to each edge such that no two edges sharing a common endpoint receive the same color. A classical result by Vizing, dating back to 1960s, proves that any simple graph can always be edge-colored with at most Δ + 1 colors, where Δ is the maximum degree of a vertex. Vizing's original proof is inherently algorithmic and immediately gives an O(mn) time algorithm for computing such a coloring.
This problem has seen a long and influential line of research aimed at designing faster algorithms for this basic task. For over four decades, the best-known runtime was Õ(m√n), a significant barrier that was only broken in 2024 through concurrent, independent works. The recent paper culminates this effort by providing a randomized algorithm that computes a Δ + 1 edge coloring in O(m log Δ) time, a running time that is near-linear in the input size.
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PhDs & Research Careers Event for Mathematical and Computing Sciences
Four of the leading Doctoral Training Centres (Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, HetSys) are hosting an event to answer questions, shatter myths and break stereotypes about PhD programmes.
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Winner of the Royal Astronomical Society Keith Runcorn Thesis Prize
Congratulations to Sihui Zhong who has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society Keith Runcorn Thesis Prize 2024 for her PhD thesis titled “Decayless Kink Oscillations of Solar Coronal Loops”, completed at CFSA under the supervision of Professor Valery Nakariakov.
The Keith Runcorn Thesis Prize is awarded to the best doctoral thesis in geophysics on an annual basis.
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We are looking to support talented candidates for the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship Scheme 2026
The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (DHF) programmeLink opens in a new window aims to support outstanding early career scientists who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances, such as caring responsibilities and/or health-related conditions.
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Warwick plant scientist honoured with Royal Horticultural Society Veitch Memorial Medal
Dr. Charlotte Allender, Head of the UK Vegetable Genebank at the School of Life Sciences, The University of Warwick has been awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) for her work conserving vegetable crop genetic diversity.
On her nomination, Charlotte said: "I am very grateful to the RHS for this award; to have such a prestigious organisation recognise the value of your work is wonderful.”
This award recognises Dr. Allender’s research into conserving genetic variation of crop species and for her almost two decades-long service to the UK Vegetable Genebank. This work has been vital for food security by preserving these sources of genetic variation that are needed to develop new and robust crop varieties.
Charlotte added: “The conservation of plant genetic resources is vital and underpins the research and breeding activity necessary to develop the new crop varieties needed for a food secure future. I would like to acknowledge that the work of the UK Vegetable Genebank is only possible with a team of skilled and dedicated staff and the support of the University of Warwick and Defra.”
The UK Vegetable Genebank celebrates its 45th anniversary later this year. It currently stores around 14,000 vegetable seed samples, sourced from 128 different countries, making it a globally significant resource.
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WMG High Value Manufacturing Catapult Centre welcomes Executive Chair of Innovate UK
Professor David Greenwood, CEO of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC) Centre at WMG, University of Warwick, was delighted to welcome Tom Adeyoola – Executive Chair of Innovate UK – on Tuesday 1 July, as part of his tour of the UK’s Catapult Network.
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Two Warwick winners in the LMS Whitehead Prizes
Huge congratulations to Dr Richard Montgomery and Professor Ewelina Zatorska, who were both among the winners of this year's London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prizes. Dr Montgomery won for his outstanding work on the absorption method, and on sublinear expanders, in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, while Professor Zatorska for her deep and lasting contributions to the mathematical theory of the compressible Navier–Stokes equations and other nonlinear partial differential equations. A full list of winners can be found on the LMS websiteLink opens in a new window.
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MSc Advanced Critical Care Practice awarded full accreditation by Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine
Warwick Medical School's MSc Advanced Critical Care Practice has been awarded full accreditation by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM), one of only three courses in the UK to achieve this.