Advancing extraordinary research: 2023 Philip Leverhulme Prize winners
Two of the five winners of the 2023 Philip Leverhulme Prizes for Mathematics and Statistics are members of DPMMS. Professor Po-Ling Loh and Professor Holly Krieger have each been awarded a prestigious £100,000 prize.
Ivan Smith, new Head of the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, explains the unique strengths of DPMMS and why he and his colleagues are embarking on an exciting time of renewal.
Work by the multidisciplinary Cambridge Mathematics of Information in Healthcare Hub is resulting in real impacts on the healthcare received by patients.
The University of Cambridge is hosting Dawn, the UK’s fastest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer. The resource will support research by academics across the UK, including DAMTP’s Institute of Computing for Climate Science.
An international team including DAMTP researchers has launched a new collaboration leveraging the technology underpinning ChatGPT to build an AI-powered tool for scientific discovery.
The new Cambridge Maths School, supported by the University, welcomed its first-ever students as it opened at the start of the new academic year in September 2023.
In June 2023 scientists detected a low frequency hum of gravitational waves for the first time. In this podcast, researchers from DAMTP's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology explain why these results are so exciting.
Dark energy could be measured by studying the galaxy next door
Researchers from DAMTP have found a potential new way to measure dark energy - the mysterious force that makes up more than two-thirds of the Universe - in our own cosmic backyard.
Fermat's Last Theorem - from history to new mathematics
It's thirty years since Andrew Wiles announced his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Discover how this enabled new advances in which researchers from DPMMS are playing a leading role.