http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/index.shtml Latest from the School of Mathematics en-gb Copyright University of Southampton, http://www.southampton.ac.uk/inf/copyright.html Fri Feb 19 08:40:21 +0000 2010 Information Systems Services, Interwoven TeamSite http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.southampton.ac.uk/img/furniture/rss_logo.png http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/index.shtml 144 31 http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2010/Landsberg.shtml Peter Landsberg has died http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2010/simm.shtml Southampton Initiative in Mathematical Modelling http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2010/phds.shtml Funded PhD projects in maths available http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2009/wca_lecture.shtml The School of Mathematics is hosting a WCA lecture by Paul Thornton OBE on Global Challenges for the Actuarial Profession. The lecture is sponsired by the Worshipful Company of Actuaries. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2009/lms0709.shtml LMS Regional meeting, followed by Workshop on limit groups and their generalisations, 15 July to 17 July 2009, School of Mathematics, University of Southampton. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2009/jbgrant.shtml School wins share of £1.1M grant to study blackouts in energy grids. The School of Mathematics is part of a £1.1M consortium set up in collaboration with scientists from Edinburgh University. The consortium is supported by the EPSRC through the initiative "Energy challenges for complexity science". http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2009/actuarialmsc.shtml The School of Mathematics at Southampton is launching an MSc/PgD in Actuarial Science that gives candidates an opportunity to obtain exemptions from all the core technical professional examinations CT1-CT8 of the Institute of Actuaries. The course is now recruiting for October 2009. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2009/marleywun.shtml Chris Marley, a second year PhD student in Statistics at Southampton, has been awarded a Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Research Mobility award http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2009/dalybamc.shtml Southampton PhD student wins national research talk award. Keith Daly, a second year PhD student in Applied Mathematics at Southampton has jointly won the best postgraduate research talk award at the 2009 British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC). http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2009/metagrant.shtml The School of Mathematics has won a share of an £6 million centre for nanostructured photonic metamaterials. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2008/phds.shtml Funded PhD projects in maths available http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2009/nanophd.shtml A funded PhD project opportunity exists in: New Mathematical Methods for Nanoscale Engineering Simulations http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2009/rae2008.shtml The School of Mathematics has achieved notable success in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Mathematical research at Southampton now ranks well within the top 10 in the UK. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2009/hallhonour.shtml Southampton Maths graduate in New Years Honours. Professor Wendy Hall, CBE, who invented a forerunner of the world wide web, has been made a dame in the New Year Honours list for services to science and technology. Professor Dame Wendy Hall took both a BSc and a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Southampton. One of the world’s leading computer scientists, Wendy Hall is a Professor at the University of Southampton and was Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science from 2002 to 2007. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2008/bridgegap.shtml Postdoctoral Research Assistant Mathematical Sciences or Statistics and Bridging the Gaps Facilitator http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2008/statsresfellow.shtml Research Fellow in Statistics http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2008/roysoc.shtml The general relativity group in the School of Mathematics has been chosen to exhibit at Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2008 http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2008/grants2008.shtml In the past 11 months the School of Mathematics has won over £5.7 millions pounds in peer-reviewed and industrial research income. This includes a rolling grant ins General Relativity and a Science and Innovation award in Operational Research. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2008/jobs12008.shtml A chair and 2 lectureships in Pure, a lecturer/senior lecturer/reader in Statistics and 2 lectureships in Operational research are available from 1st October 2008, with closing dates for applications in March 2008. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2008/symbiosis.shtml Symbiosis grant announcement http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2008/rsss3rimeeting.shtml Joint Royal Statistical Society/S3RI meeting on Computer Experiments. This meeting will feature three talks on experiments on complex computer models, including their role in climate models and new developments in both the design of studies and the modelling of outputs. Wednesday 13 February 2008 from 2pm in Building 6 (Nuffield), Lecture Room C. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2007/chengaward.shtml Russell Cheng, Professor of Operational Research in the School of Mathematics, received the Distinguished Service Award of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Simulation Society (ISS) at the opening ceremony of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference in Washington DC. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/news/2007/GRRollingGrant.shtml The General Relativity group in the School of Mathematics at the University of Southampton has been awarded a rolling grant at a total value of £1.7m by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. The award firmly establishes the Southampton group, led by Professor Nils Andersson, as one of the leading research groups in classical general relativity and gravitational wave modelling in the world. Over the next five years nine researchers will study likely sources of gravitational waves, one of the most fascinating predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity.