Professor Richard Samworth FRS awarded RSS Guy Medal Silver
9 April 2025
Professor Richard Samworth FRS (DPMMS) has been awarded the 2025 Guy Medal Silver by the Royal Statistical Society. The award recognises his outstanding contributions to the development of methodology and theory for shape-constrained inference, random ensemble classification, data-perturbation techniques, and changepoint estimation, and his exceptional support for other members of the profession.
Professor Richard Samworth FRS awarded 2025 David Cox Medal
9 April 2025
Professor Richard Samworth FRS (DPMMS) has been awarded the David Cox Medal for Statistics. Inaugurated in 2025, this international award recognises his outstanding contributions to methodological and theoretical statistics. In addition to stellar research contributions in important and broad areas of statistical science across the past two decades, the award recognises his mentorship of students and young researchers, and tireless service to the profession.
Dr Theo Assiotis and Dr Giuseppe Cannizzaro win 2025 Adams Prize
25 March 2025
The 2025 Adams Prize has been jointly awarded to Dr Theo Assiotis of the University of Edinburgh and Dr Giuseppe Cannizzaro of the University of Warwick for their work on the Mathematics of Statistical Mechanics. The Adams Prize is one of the oldest and most prestigious prizes in the University of Cambridge, and is awarded each year by the Faculty of Mathematics and St John’s College, Cambridge, to UK-based researchers under the age of 40 doing first class international research in the Mathematical Sciences.
Professor James Fergusson wins 2025 Pilkington Prize
27 February 2025
Professor James Fergusson (DAMTP) has been awarded a 2025 Pilkington Prize. The Pilkington Prizes are awarded annually by the University of Cambridge to recognise outstanding contributions to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. The award recognises both his exceptional teaching, and his outstanding contribution in launching the new MPhil in Data Intensive Science programme.
Professor Benedikt Löwe awarded Faculty Lecturing Prize
19 February 2025
The 2024-2025 Faculty Lecturing Prize has been awarded to Professor Benedikt Löwe in recognition of the outstanding student feedback received on his courses.
Senior Government minister visits Cambridge to explore the potential of AI
6 February 2025
The Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, met researchers including DAMTP’s Professor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb to discuss ways in which AI can transform public services and healthcare.
Professor Jack Thorne FRS awarded ERC Consolidator Grant
3 December 2024
Professor Jack Thorne FRS (DPMMS) has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council Consolidator Grant. The grants, funded through the EU’s Horizon Europe programme, aim to support outstanding scientists and scholars as they establish their independent research teams and develop their most promising scientific ideas.
Hannah Fry announced as new Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics
21 November 2024
Hannah Fry will join the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) on 1 January 2025 as Cambridge's first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics.
Hannah Fry brings outstanding experience of communicating to diverse audiences to the role. She is currently Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, as well as a best-selling author and award-winning science presenter on radio and TV. She won the Christopher Zeeman Medal for promoting mathematics in 2018 and the Royal Society David Attenborough Award in 2024, and is the current President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
Professor Adrian Kent elected as American Physical Society Fellow
7 October 2024
Professor Adrian Kent (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) has been elected to the American Physical Society's Fellows. The APS Fellowship recognises his seminal contributions at the interface between quantum information science and relativity, including novel protocols for communication and cryptography.
Dr Julian Sahasrabudhe awarded European Research Council Starting Grant
5 September 2024
Dr Julian Sahasrabudhe (Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) is one of nine Cambridge researchers - the highest number of grants of any UK institution - to be awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant. The awards help exceptional researchers at the beginning of their careers to launch their own projects, form their teams and pursue their most promising ideas.