- Archived News
- May 2021
- On 12 May, the Emmy Noether Society is hosting a talk by Dr Eugenia Cheng: Inclusion - Exclusion in Mathematics and Beyond, as part of the may12 initiative, which brings together events from all over the world celebrating women in mathematics. 12th May was the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani; it was chosen by the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics, at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018, to celebrate women in mathematics in her memory.
- On 27 May, Julia Gog will give a lecture on Maths vs. Covid-19. In this joint event between the London Mathematical Society and Gresham College. Julia will explain some of the maths used in the fight against the pandemic, and also give some insights into life as a mathematician assisting with policy advice during this unprecedented time.
- March 2021
- Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb has been awarded a prestigious EPSRC Established Career Fellowship for her work on 'Combining Knowledge And Data Driven Approaches to Inverse Imaging Problems'. This will support Carola's development of a new hybrid approach for solving inverse imaging problems by combining knowledge-driven and data-driven methods.
- December 2020
- Stephanie Höhn has been announced as one of the awardees of the first round of CPB Pump Priming Grants, aimed at generating new collaborations between early career research teams, and promoting multidisciplinary research in the field of physical biology.
- November 2020
- Mihaela van der Schaar is named Director of the new Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM), a research collaboration between the University of Cambridge, AstraZeneca and GSK. The CCAIM brings together an interdisciplinary team from across the University, to study applications of machine learning to problems in biomedical science and healthcare delivery. It will support 5 new PhD studentship for the next five years.
- October 2020
- Julia Gog has been made an OBE for services to academia and the COVID-19 response.
- September 2020
- Jessica Fintzen has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants for p-adic Groups, Representations, and the Langlands Program.
- Maria Ubiali has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants for Physics Beyond the Standard Proton.
- August 2020
- Julia Gog has been awarded the Royal Society’s Rosalind Franklin Award in recognition of her achievements in the field of mathematics and her impactful project proposal with its potential for a long-term legacy.
- June 2020
- Holly Krieger has been awarded a Whitehead Prize for her deep contributions to arithmetic dynamics, to equidistribution, to bifurcation loci in families of rational maps, and her proof (with DeMarco and Ye) of uniform boundedness results for numbers of torsion points on families of bielliptic genus two curves in their Jacobians.
- Maria Bruna has been awarded a Whitehead Prize in recognition of her outstanding research in asymptotic homogenisation, most prominently in the systematic development of continuum models of interacting particles systems.
- January 2020
- Helen Mason OBE, joined Melvyn Bragg and guests on BBC Radio 4 ‘In our Time’ to discuss `Solar Winds', the phenomenon behind the auroras at Earth’s poles, the stream of charged particles spreading out from the Sun to the border of the solar system. Listen now by clicking on Solar Winds.
- July 2019
- Carola–Bibiane Schönlieb has been awarded the Caldéron Prize of The Inverse Problems International Association (IPIA) at the Applied Inverse Problems Conference in Grenoble, France, for her distinguished contributions to the field of inverse problems.
- Anne Davis has been awarded the Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize for her outstanding support and leadership in physics, particularly for women and those from non-traditional backgrounds, for her leadership of the UK particle cosmology community, and her gender championship roles.
- May 2019
- Hanne Kekkonen's video Wavelet Compression meets Fractals wins first prize in the second annual CCIMI Video Contest.
- January 2019
- Julia Gog is featured in a film produced by the University of Cambridge, to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War and the 1918-19 influenza pandemic, and to highlight vital scientific research by the University of Cambridge. The film explores what has been learnt about Spanish Flu, the urgent threat posed by influenza today, and how scientists are preparing for future pandemics.
- October 2018
- Holly Krieger has recently released a new Numberphile video – The Dollar Game. This video has inspired a lot of fun implementations by fans, the best of which is here: https://thedollargame.io.
- August 2018
- Julia Gog has received a Vice Chancellor’s Impact Award for her work on ‘Harnessing mathematics to help control influenza’. Julia’s work on predicting the evolution of the seasonal human influenza virus to better inform vaccination selection is critical to controlling the spread of influenza each year. Julia worked with data gathered through the BBC’s Pandemic project to produce mathematical modelling that helps predict how UK populations move and interact, and consequently how and where a virus would spread.
- July 2018
- Amalia Thomas (PhD student) has won first prize in the IFPRI (International Fine Particle Research Institute) AGM Student poster session. She was announced the winner among five finalists, and was awarded $1,000. Amalia's research aims to explore the underlying physical processes involved in granular segregation in a novel, multidisciplinary way.
- June 2018
- Julia Gog has taken part in Science on Screen giving a presentation after the showing of Fermat’s Room (15) at the Barbican on Tuesday 5th June.
- May 2018
- Daria Frank featured in Bees, Squid and Oil Plumes - Interviews with Fluid Dynamics researchers from APS DFD 2017.
- Anastasia Kisil has won the poster competition at the LMS Women in Mathematics meeting recently hosted at the Isaac Newton Institute.
- March 2018
- Julia Gog, together with PhD student Maria Tang and colleague Stephen Kissler worked with the BBC on a huge citizen science disease dynamics experiment featured on the documentary Contagion! The BBC Pandemic. 30,000 people took part in the citizen science experiment, which has resulted in the largest data set of its kind. Find out more.
- January 2018
- Carola–Bibiane Schönlieb has been announced as the 2018 LMS Mary Cartwright Lecturer. This year’s Mary Cartwright Lecture will take place on Friday 2 March, and Carola will be talking on ‘Model-based learning in imaging’
- Amalia Thomas' and Nathalie Vriend’s Public Engagement with Research case study on ‘Interactive Experiment Exhibition and Photoelastic Toys’ is now available on the Public Engagement website
- The Royal Astronomical Society has announced that Helen Mason has been awarded the 2018 RAS Annie Maunder Medal for Outreach. The RAS citation for this medal can be read here
- November 2017
- Carola–Bibiane Schönlieb has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Mathematics and Statistics
- Holly Krieger, while recently visiting The John Adams Institute, was interviewed by Ellen de Bruin of NRC Handelsblad about her way of teaching mathematics. This interview is now available to read (in Dutch) and includes video clips in English.
- Check out Dr Holly Krieger’s new Numberphile video, Fibonacci Numbers hidden in the Mandelbrot Set!
- Ems Lord, NRICH Programme Director, has been elected President of the Mathematical Association for 2019/2020. The Mathematical Association is the oldest established teachers' subject association in the UK.
- Megan Davies-Wykes has won the first UK Fluids Network photo competition. Her photo ‘(Accidental) double diffusive instability’ can be viewed on the UK Fluids Network webpage.
- The winners have been announced for the Faculty of Mathematics photography competition. Johannes Hjorth, Joana Grah and Veronica Corona won in both the categories 'Life at CMS' and 'Maths at Cambridge', while the category of 'Mobile Maths' was won by Julia Goedecke.
- 24 October, 2017
- PhD Student Amalia Thomas’ public engagement work into the world of photoelasticity has been recently featured in the Royal Society Inside Science blog, as part of their public engagement case study series.
- 8 July, 2017
- Julia Gog awarded a Whitehead Prize for her wide-ranging contributions to the mathematical understanding of disease dynamics, particularly influenza, based on both mathematical mastery and profound biological insight, gained from her long-standing collaborations with immunologists and epidemiologists.
- 25 April, 2017
- Opening of the 'Women of Mathematics throughout Europe' exhibition.This special extended exhibition is supplemented with portraits and interviews featuring Cambridge female mathematicians.The programme, starting at 3:30pm, includes mathematical talks and a panel discussion about issues affecting women in mathematics, and will close with networking over a drinks reception. Registration is free.
- 24 April, 2017
- The LMS Girls in Mathematics Day is hosted jointly by the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, and the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. This full-day event for Year 12 girls (ages 16-17) studying A-level Mathematics is now fully booked. However, you can join the waiting list to be notified if more places become available.
- 25 March, 2017
- Julia Gog to speak at the Cambridge Science Festival about `Maths vs. Disease'. This event is currently fully booked - however, to be notified if more tickets become available, please click on the booking link to join the waiting list.
- 31 August, 2016
- Helen Mason awarded an STFC Public Engagement Fellowship for a new project to inspire school-age students to engage with science activities
- 8 July, 2016
- DAMTP PhD student Amalia Thomas has received a prestigious Vice-Chancellor's Public Engagement with Research Award. The awards recognise and reward those who undertake quality engagement with research.Find out more.
- 14 July, 2016
- Carola Schönlieb awarded a Whitehead Prize for her spectacular contributions to the mathematics of image analysis and inverse imaging problems.
- 13 April, 2016
- One of the London Mathematical Society's Women in Mathematics days is being held in Cambridge on Friday 15th April at Microsoft Research, 21 Station Road, Cambridge.
- 25 January, 2016
- Julia Gog appointed as the 2016 Forder Lecturer
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30 November, 2015
Rachael Bonnebaigt (PhD student) announced as one of the Smith Institute's TakeAIM competition 2015 winners for her work on ‘Using wax walls to save energy’16 November, 2015
Carola Schönlieb appointed as Director of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information
Helen Mason teams up with astronaut Tim Peake to create sports and science activities for schools taking part in the Space to Earth Challenge. She received the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Prize Lecture Award from the President of the RAS at the National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno in July 201516 September, 2015
Dr Julia Gog receives Pilkington Teaching Award23 October, 2014
Prof Anne Davis new blog: 'Why I'm championing women in science, technology, engineering, medicine and mathematics'17 June, 2014
Dr Helen Mason OBE27 February, 2014
Anne Davis Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Mathematical Physics4 October, 2013
2013 Dorothy Hodgkin Award to Nathalie Vriend
