Past news

Full Researchers' Night Programme

Mathematics Lecture Theatre, Mathematical Sciences Building
Researchers: Professor Peter Cameron and Dr Rui Carvalho, School of Mathematical Sciences

4pm: Sudoku: Explore the mathematical origins of Sudoku!

4.30pm: Fairness in Networks: How do you share resources fairly across a network of people, companies or countries?

Congratulations to Dr Matthew Fayers, Dr Karim Malik and Dr Juan Valiente-Kroon on their promotions to reader / senior lecturer positions.

We look forward to welcoming Professor Yan Fyodorov, Dr Konstantin Ardakov, Dr Adrian Baule, Dr David Ellis and Dr Behrang Noohi to the School of Mathematical Sciences over the next month.

New Scientist explores whether there’s a deeper level of the universe beyond Einstein’s theory of relativity, citing research from Professor Shahn Majid in the School of Mathematical Sciences.

We are running two Science in Society courses for A-level maths and science teachers during the week 17th-22nd July. Professor Jim Emerson is coordinating the Astrophysics course and Dr Francis Wright is coordinating the Mathematics course, supported by our Outreach Manager, Laura Thomas. Further details can be found on the course pages.

We have updated our registration guide to cover module preregistration, which runs until 18th June.

Professor R.A. Bailey will be giving a talk entitled "From Rothamsted to Northwick Park: designing experiments to avoid bias and reduce variance" at The Royal Institution at 8pm on Friday 27th May.

The School of Mathematical Sciences is now embarking on a three-year programme of recruitment. Four professorial and two lectureship vacancies are available, with a closing date of 6th May. See Vacancies for further details.

Read the full article for more about the Penrose tiling pattern and the new foyer.

Prof. Dirk Helbing, a theoretical Physicist, now Prof. of Sociology at ETH Zurich is giving a talk at QMUL on the FuturICT EU grant on the 29^th of March at 4:30 pm.

QApps competition - open to all QM staff and students, entries close 11th March.

Watch recent PhD graduate Kotub Uddin discuss his mathematical modelling placement with Jaguar Landrover. Kotub has since joined the company on a permanent basis.

Congratulations to Jim Emerson and Carl Murray on being successful in obtaining grant awards from the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

Peter Cameron has been interviewed for the Maths Careers website.

Thanks to all who attended the first Mathematical Sciences speed meet on Thursday 25 November!

Our new series of videos for undergraduates full of helpful advice from a broad range of employers is now available at http://tinyurl.com/35gebcs.

Wednesday 20th October is the first UN-designated World Statistics Day. The Royal Statistical Society is launching getstats, a 10-year statistical literacy campaign.

See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/ for more details!

http://bbc.in/d6VVKh

On 30th September all postgrads, post docs, academics and all others are invited to the first annual Outreach Party to showcase the work that is done across the Science and Engineering Faculty. It will take place in the Physics Museum from 5pm.

Professor David Burgess of the Astronomy Unit is one of only two UK-based scientists on the Fields Experiment, which is one of the selected proposals.

Professor Preece will be the Distinguished Lecturer at the 10-12 September 2010 meeting of M500 speaking on "Mathematics in Literature".

Professor Mark Jerrum has won an award for a paper co-authored with Professor Leslie Ann Goldberg of the University of Liverpool.

Dr Javier López Peña is interviewed on CNN Español about the football graphs devised with Dr Hugo Touchette.

Emeritus Professor Donald Preece will give a lecture on "Mathematics in Literature" in the Arts Lecture Theatre at 11am on Monday, 19th July.

Thanks to all research students who took part on 6th May. Congratulations to Andy Drizen and Georgie Knight on winning the poster prizes. More details...

Congratulations to Professor Steve Gilmour for co-authoring a paper recognised as runner-up in the 2009 Gopal Kanji prize awards.

Professor Peter Cameron will be giving an intensive course on 10-11 June 2010 at the London Taught Course Centre, De Morgan House, Russell Square, on the topic of "Synchronisation".

This free event for all students and staff will kindly be hosted by our in-house funny man Matt Parker.

Congratulations to Ian Huston and Emil Vaughan on successfully passing their vivas in February!

Friday 19th March 2010

Lecturer: Peter Keevash

More Maths Grads' Matt Parker has had a mathematical article about homeopathy published in The Times. Excitingly it's also been noticed by Professor Richard Dawkins.

Fatmir Qirezi has been awarded a prize by Queen Mary for outstanding work in the MSc in Mathematics.

Random matrix puzzles

6.30pm, 20th January 2010

Scholarships have been awarded to postgrads and postdocs in the School.

Peter Cameron, "Sudoku and Mathematics", 14th Dec

A Scientific Meeting of the Astronomy Unit

Welcome to the new School web site. Thanks to all those who have helped upgrade the site. Please bear with us while we make sure that all links are working!

This term we will have an afternoon of lectures to celebrate the career and mark the retirement of Ian Chiswell.

Professor Carl Murray talks about the discovery of a ring around Saturn.

BBC News story