Press Releases
Can’t Stop, Must Hack!
A total of 50 students took part in the inaugural 24hour hackathon on Saturday (20 June) to mark the start of a new partnership between WMG’s Cyber Security Centre and digital identification company Callsign.
Vince Cable announces that Warwick will be 1 of the 5 universities to lead the Alan Turing Institute
The University of Warwick is one five universities announced today, Wednesday 28th January, by the Rt. Hon. Dr Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, as leaders of the prestigious new Alan Turing Institute.
Ecosystems need maths not random nature to survive
A previously unknown mathematical property has been found to be behind one of nature’s greatest mysteries – how ecosystems survive. Found in nature and common to all ecosystems the property, Trophic Coherence, is a measure of how plant and animal life interact within the food web of each ecosystem – providing scientists with the first ever mathematical understanding of their architecture and how food webs are able to grow larger while also becoming more stable.
Warwick Mathematicians awarded Philip Leverhulme prizes
Professor Dan Král's and Dr David Loeffler of the University of Warwick's Mathematics Institue have been awarded Philip Leverhulme prizes in recognition of their contribution's to their fields.
Ebola outbreak “out of all proportion” and severity cannot be predicted
A mathematical model that replicates Ebola outbreaks can no longer be used to ascertain the eventual scale of the current epidemic, finds research conducted by the University of Warwick.
Dr Thomas House, of the University’s Warwick Mathematics Institute, developed a model that incorporated data from past outbreaks that successfully replicated their eventual scale.
Distinguished Lecture Series: Professor Martin Hairer
Professor Martin Hairer will be giving the next distinguished lecture entitled 'Taming Infinities'. Martin Hairer is a celebrated mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial differential equations.