2019.06.24 New Quantum Master of Science Pilot Project The Departments of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science run a pilot project which may eventually lead to a future joint Master of Quantum Science (QMSc). The pilot project starts in the Fall term of 2019. It is a collaboration between the departments of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, who will educate students to be specialists in quantum technology.
2019.06.11 DKK 2.8 million for research into extreme value theory Professor of Insurance Mathematics Thomas Mikosch has received a grant from the Danish Free Research Foundation (DFF) for the project "A large deviations approach to heavy-tailed time series".
2019.04.29 Four mathematical talents The newspaper Berlingske has once again named Denmark's 100 most talented from all corners of Danish business. Over 400 talented and ambitious young people have been nominated by their boss or a colleague. Four of the year's talents are mathematicians from the University of Copenhagen.
2019.02.07 Bronze Medal to Jonas Peters from the Royal Statistical Society Jonas Peters has been awarded The Guy Medal in Bronze from the Royal Statistical Society. He will be presented with the award at a ceremony during RSS’s annual conference in Belfast in September.
2019.02.01 Understanding Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Elisenda Feliu, associate professor in mathematics, receives a 1.3 million DKK research grant for the project “Understanding bistability underlying acute and chronic infections in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa“.
2019.01.23 Albert H. Werner receives Villum Young Investigator Grant Albert H. Werner, Postdoc in quantum information at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, has received 10 million DKK from the VILLUM Young Investigator Program.
2018.12.12 SCIENCE Dissemination Award to Therese Graversen 35-year-old assistant professor and statistician Therese Graversen of the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Mathematical Sciences has won the SCIENCE Dissemination Award 2018 presented by UCPH’s Faculty of Science. Graversen is being presented the award for widely communicating results about the use of DNA traces in criminal investigSCIENCE Dissemination Award 2018:ations in a readily understood and solidly scientific way.
2018.12.09 New study programme in Machine Learning and Data Science The Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Computer Science are behind new bachelor's programme, which has just been approved by Tommy Ahlers, Minister of Education and Research.
2018.12.05 Prestigious research grant for quantum mathematician Professor Matthias Christandl of the Department of Mathematical Sciences has just received the European Research Council's Consolidator Grant, awarded to outstanding scientists with a promising scientific career.
2018.10.22 Inaugural lectures by Mogens Bladt and Mathias Drton Mogens Bladt, professor of applied probability and insurance mathematics, and Mathias Drton, professor of statistics, will give their inaugural lectures Friday 2 November 2018 at 14:00 followed by a reception.
2018.09.24 Rune Haugseng first recipient of the Viggo Brun Prize Rune Haugseng, who has been a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences since 2015, is the first recipient of the Norwegian Mathematical Association's Viggo Brun Prize. The prize will be awarded to younger Norwegian mathematicians for outstanding research in mathematics.
2018.08.28 Martin Emil Jakobsen is awarded the Edlund-DMF Thesis Prize The Danish Mathematical Association's Thesis Prize of DKK 15,000 will be awarded to Martin Emil Jakobsen on Friday, 7 September 2018.
2018.08.14 Copenhagen seeks talent TALENT is a new doctoral programme based at the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, co-funded by the European Union. 74 PhD scholarships in the natural and life sciences are to be awarded and completed within the next five years.
2018.06.29 Statistician behind research in narwhal’s clicks, calls and buzzing Researchers from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources have received extremely detailed data about a group of narwhal’s sounds. Professor Susanne Ditlevsen from the Department of Mathematical Sciences performed statistical analyzes for the research team.
2018.06.19 MATH professor mathematical director of AP Pension Thomas Møller, adjunct professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, has been appointed as Chief Mathematical Officer (CMO) and member of the board of AP Pension, Denmark's fourth largest commercial pension company.