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Professor Giuseppe Cannizzaro has won the Rollo Davidson Prize for 2026, in recognition of his great advances in our understanding of scaling-critical two-dimensional stochastic systems.

The Rollo Davidson Prize commemorates Rollo Davidson (1944-1970). Since 1976, it has been awarded annually to young probabilists. The announcement post can be found at: https://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/rollo-davidson-prize.

Professor Andreas Kyprianou has been named among the founding fellows of the newly established Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (AcadMathSci) — a new national academy created to bring together the UK’s strongest mathematical scientists across academia, education, business, industry, and government to help solve some of the UK’s biggest challenges.

Last week's Charity Bake Off, organised by Emma Davis, raised £144.50 for Princess Alice Hospice and saw Yiping Zhang win Star Baker for her delicious Basque cheesecake. We’ll be in the atrium Thurs 27th at 12:30 for Biscuit Week…

The Alan Turing Institute has been awarded a £1 million EPSRC research grant to develop AI methods that support and enhance intelligence analysis for national security and defence.

Shreya Sinha Roy, a fourth-year PhD student, has recently been announced as one of the 21 recipients of the IMS 2025 ICSDS Student Travel Award. Her research introduces 'prequential posteriors' as a likelihood-free approach for data assimilation. She will travel to Seville to present her work at ICSDS 2025 in December.