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Dr Mike Newman, a postdoc in the MRC working with Peter Cameron, has been awarded the Canadian Mathematical Society's Doctoral Prize for 2006. See their press release for further details.
Professor Mark Jerrum (formerly University of Edinburgh) has been appointed to a Chair in Pure Mathematics in the School of Mathematical Sciences with effect from September 1st, 2006.
His main activities are in the part of theoretical computer science known as computational complexity.
On Friday 8 September 2006, during the meeting BLC2006, the British Logic Colloquium will have a day of talks in honour of Wilfrid Hodges, who retires this year.
Details can be found on the BLC2006 web page.
We are pleased to announce a one-day conference to celebrate Charles Leedham-Green's contributions to mathematics on the occasion of his retirement.
The conference will take place on 10 July 2006, starting at 11.00am. The main speakers are Bettina Eick, Eamonn O'Brien, and Aner Shalev.
See the Web page for more details.
The Directors of the School of Mathematical Sciences are pleased to announce that the 2005 Ann Cook Prize has been awarded to David J. Mulryne for his entry "Loop quantum cosmology, inflation and the origin of the universe".
The Directors felt that the standard of presentation of all entries was very high. It was only with great difficulty that a winner was selected: there was little to distinguish the top three.
Congratulations
to David and to the other entrants: Richard Bayley, Jonathan Dixon, Rebecca
Lodwick, and Waqas Masood.
Further details can be found on the Ann
Cook Prize web page.
Further
information about some past grants held by MRC members may be found here.
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