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QMATH in Science

Associate Professor Laura Mančinska from the QMATH Centre is part of an international team of researchers behind an article in Science.

Harald Bohr Lecture by Sir Andrew Wiles

The Department of Mathematical Sciences is immensely proud to announce Sir Andrew Wiles, the Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, as the next distinguished Harald Bohr lecturer. His lecture, titled "Rational points on elliptic curves", takes place on Wednesday, March 14 at 15:15 in Auditorium 1.

He will tackle the impossible: learning causality from data

Jonas Peters, Associate Professor in Statistics from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, has received 8.2 million DKK from VILLUM Young Investigator Program. It will enable him to form a small group to do research on "Causal Learning in Real World Applications”.

Research project will ensure pension savings

Department of Mathematical Sciences participates in a new IT-research project aimed at providing tools for better solvency and risk management. Innovation Fund Denmark invests DKK 9 million in the project.

Professor Ragnar Norberg is dead

Ragnar Norberg died December 18 after long illness.

Jonas Peters receives research grant from Carlsberg Foundation

“Learning by doing: How to adapt to changing environments” is the title on Jonas Peters’ research project, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation Distinguished Associate Professor Fellowship.

Harald Bohr Lecture by Stanislav Smirnov, November 2017

The Department of Mathematical Sciences is proud to have Field Medalist Stanislav Smirnov (Professor in Geneva, Saint Petersburg and Moscow) as our Harald Bohr Lecturer 28 November 2017. His lecture was titled “Complex analysis and 2D statistical physics”.

Professor Thomas Mikosch receives the Humboldt Prize

The Humboldt Research Award has been granted to Professor Thomas Mikosch, professor in actuarial mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, in recognition of his past accomplishments in research and teaching.

Experiences with computational mathematics teaching

Four years after the formation of Centre of Computational Mathematics Education (CMU) it's time for researchers and lecturers to reflect upon the challenges the growing use of mathematical software constitutes for the mathematics education of the high school.

ERC Consolidator Grant to Nathalie Wahl

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Nathalie Wahl a Consolidator Grant for her research in topology.

Marie Curie grants to two SYM postdocs

Tobias Barthel and Gábor Szabo, postdoc researchers from the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation, have won the competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, which they will carry at our department.

Niels Martin Møller awarded prestigious Sapere Aude grant

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Niels Martin Møller has received a “Sapere Aude Starting Grant (Research Leader)" from the Independent Research Fund of Denmark. The grant is aimed at highly talented younger researchers who have already demonstrated the ability of original research at a high international level.

The Gates Foundation support health and math project

Postdoc researcher Robyn Stuart, from the Statistics and Probability Theory group at Department of Mathematical Sciences, receives funding for a 15 month health and math project on modeling "care cascades”.

Jesper Grodal elected as Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Professor Jesper Grodal from MATH at University of Copenhagen is honored for his contributions to algebraic topology, representation theory and their interactions - and for service to the profession.

Renowned mathematician to be awarded honorary doctorate

Professor Karen Vogtmann, world-renowned for her research in topology and geometric group theory, will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen on November 17, upon the recommendation of the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Mathematical Sciences.