In this video, Professor Paul Shellard, Director of the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at DAMTP, Dr Jessica Gardner, the University Librarian, and members of Professor Hawking's family discuss the significance of the Hawking archive and some of the insights it provides.
Cambridge Perspectives: Applying Mathematics to Healthcare
In the first of a new series of events, Professor Julia Gog OBE, Professor Paul Linden FRS and Professor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb discuss some of the ways mathematics is contributing to global healthcare.
Developing statistics: Richard Samworth elected FRS
Professor Richard Samworth, Director of the Statistical Laboratory at DPMMS, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his fundamental contributions to the development of modern statistical methodology and theory.
In a new interdisciplinary project, mathematicians from DAMTP are using artificial intelligence to improve traffic, helping to protect the environment and human health.
In February 2020 Julia Gog, Professor of Mathematical Biology at DAMTP, was released from her normal duties to devote herself entirely to the fight against COVID-19. In this interview she tells us about her journey through the pandemic so far.
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, the Faculty's NRICH education programme provided vital support to the UK's schoolchildren, their parents and teachers.
Ioannis Kontoyiannis, the Faculty's new Churchill Professor of Mathematics, tells us about a favourite topic amongst his far-ranging interests: the theory of information and its applications.
David Spiegelhalter won the Prize for communicating key concepts from statistics and probability theory to the public, most recently through the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article he tells us about his work.