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La journée Georges de Rham existe depuis 1991 et c’est un ’’colloque prestige’’ réunissant la communauté mathématique Suisse, et notamment nos doctorants, autour de deux conférenciers prestigieux présentant, durant un exposé d’une heure, un thème d’actualité. Il s’agit d’un exercice difficile pour les orateurs, et les organisateurs cherchent toujours à s’assurer les services de conférenciers de premier plan au niveau scientifique, qui sont aussi connus pour leur capacité à présenter de manière abordable un thème de pointe. En 2015 le thème portera sur les liens entre les probabilités et la topologie et géométrie

The occasion is run by the Swiss Doctoral Programme in Mathematics. The Lectures form the core of the Georges de Rham day, a prestigious yearly event dating back to 1991 and taking place in Lausanne, honouring the remarkable legacy of Georges de Rham (1903-1990), who hailed from and worked for much of his career in the Canton of Vaud. They address the Mathematical community-at-large of Switzerland, with particular emphasis on doctoral students, thus bringing together faculty, students, visitors and other researchers in mathematics from across the country. The Lecturers are chosen to be distinguished mathematicians with a charisma in communicating mathematics, in order for our students to benefit from our esteemed guests. In this sense, talks are intended for a diverse but mathematically mature audience, and are colloquium style, rather than seminar style, lasting about an hour (not including questions). Among past speakers are Alain Connes, Vaughan Jones, László Lovász, Benoît Mandelbrot, Curtis McMullen, John Milnor, Peter Sarnak, Marcus du Sautoy, Jean-Pierre Serre, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, and Don Zagier, to name only a few.

The results of the 2014 REF (Research Excellence Framework) exercise have now been published, and Warwick Statistics and the Warwick Mathematics Institute together have been ranked 3rd in the UK with more than 90% of our research activity assessed as either internationally excellent or world leading.

Our research environment at Warwick is rated by REF 2014 as the very best in the UK for mathematical sciences (achieving the maximum possible score of 100% at 4*).

The University of Warwick as a whole is now ranked (among universities) 7th in the UK for our research, with 14 academic departments ranked in the UK top ten for their disciplines.

Further background on REF 2014 is provided in HEFCE's press release, with additional analysis provided in the Times Higher Education dissemination of results.

We are delighted to announce that the 2014 John Copas Prize in Statistics sponsored by the Faculty of Science for the most outstanding thesis amongst those eligible for the PhD Completion Award has been awarded to Lorna Barclay and Catalina Vallejos Meneses.

The panel awarding the Prize was very impressed by the quality of theses submitted and the decision between several excellent pieces of work this year was particularly difficult. Both Lorna and Catalina included material which led to several papers already published in very prestigious journals.

Congratulations to Catalina and Lorna!!