New Institute of Computing for Climate Science, unsolvable equations, and more from Cambridge Mathematics... |
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New Institute of Computing for Climate Science established to help tackle climate change |
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The visionary new Institute of Computing for Climate Science is taking the Faculty's role in tackling climate change into a new era. Hosted by the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, the multidisciplinary collaboration will bring together the latest advances in computer science, data science (especially artificial intelligence and machine learning) and climate science to develop the sustainable, next-generation computing tools and techniques that climate scientists need. |
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Investing in mathematical connections |
Dr Ailsa Keating, from the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, has been awarded a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council. She tells us more about her work on the symmetries of symplectic spaces, and how the grant will help her support new researchers too. |
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Number theory: the excitement of the unexpected |
Dr Rong Zhou joined the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics as a University Lecturer in number theory during the pandemic. We talked to him to learn more about equations that cannot be solved, surprising connections in number theory, and the energy of working alongside former mentors from his own time as an undergraduate. |
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Exploring glaciers and climate change |
Kasia Warburton is a PhD student in the Theoretical Geophysics research group at DAMTP. She tells us about her work on glaciers, the importance of collaboration, and the excitement of moments when things click into place. |
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Graph theory, connections and independence |
Matthew Wales is a PhD student in DPMMS. We talked to him to learn more about the joys of pure mathematics, how it feels to produce your very own mathematical result, and the opportunities postgraduate study opens up. |
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Raising the next generation of problem-solvers |
The NRICH mathematics outreach project focuses on developing problem-solving, and is celebrating 25 years of support for schools, teachers, students and parents worldwide. Discover more about NRICH's work, and the importance – and impact – of helping children learn to think mathematically. |
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Curbing COVID-19 in schools |
UK schools have received more than 300,000 CO2 monitors as part of a UK Government initiative to reduce the spread of COVID-19, supported by advice and help for teachers from DAMTP researchers. |
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Maths and the environment |
Understanding forest diversity using AI |
Dr Debmita Bandyopadhyay and colleagues are working on a multidisciplinary collaboration between Cambridge and India, developing revolutionary machine learning techniques to support forest conservation. |
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Shifting sands: mitigating dune migration |
Researchers in DAMTP have developed a new model to show how sand dunes move through a landscape, revealing the conditions that determine whether they will pass through hurdles in their path – like pipelines or walls – or get stopped in their tracks. |
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Shedding new light on the Moon |
Half a century after lunar rocks collected by Apollo 11 changed the way we thought about the Moon, Professor Jerome Neufeld and colleagues have shown that the Moon's crust was once a churning ocean of slushy magma. The new model finally explains the diversity and range of ages of rocks from the lunar surface. | | |
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Join us for a Cambridge Mathematics alumni event |
You are warmly invited to join us for our next live online alumni event, sharing insights and ideas from the wide range of Cambridge mathematics through discussion with the researchers involved. |
Unveiling Mysteries of the Quantum World |
Wednesday 11 May, 5.30pm BST |
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Join Dr Maria Ubiali and Dr Sergii Strelchuk from DAMTP as they discuss their recent research, exploring how developments in computational machine learning are revealing mysteries from the quantum world; and how quantum effects can be applied in turn to revolutionise the ways in which scientists process information. |
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