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Outstanding PhD trio receives honours

Mathematician Robin Reuvers was honored for his PhD project on the so-called Bose-gases, when SCIENCE presented this years PhD awards.

Harald Bohr Lecture by Paul Embrechts

The Department of Mathematical Sciences is proud to announce Professor Paul Embrechts, ETH Zurich, as the next distinguished Harald Bohr lecturer. He will Tuesday 10 October 2017 give a lecture titled “The mathematics of risk”.

Spanish award to QMATH postdoc

The Royal Spanish Mathematical Society will in October award postdoc Angelo Lucia the Vicent Caselles Award for brilliant work of international impact.

Mathematics-Economics students win business competition

Danske Bank, KMD and Microsoft are behind the competition Business Analytics Challenge, where university students from across the country could work with large amounts of data from the real world.

New book brings together Ib Skovgaards research

On Friday 16 June, Ib Skovgaard was celebrated with a symposium and a subsequent well-attended reception.

Funding for mathematical experiments

Associate Professor Jesper Lund Pedersen and postdoc Alexandra Muñoz have received funding from the VILLUM FOUNDATION to think outside the box. Their projects could lead to radical breakthroughs within mathematics. If they succeed.

Statistics professor named Teacher of the Year at SCIENCE 2017

Professor Susanne Ditlevsen at the Department of Mathematical Sciences is so good at making figures and mind-bending statistical calculations interesting and accessible for her students that she has now been awarded Teacher of the Year at SCIENCE 2017. Ditlevsen was one of 17 educators nominated for the award at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Science. Students nominate candidates and select the Teacher of the Year winner, a process also intended to inspire researchers to optimize instruction.

Another mathematician admitted to the Young Academy

The Young Academy has just approved seven new members, all of whom are excellent young researchers in their respective fields of study. One of these is Niels Martin Møller, assistant professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Harald Bohr Lecture by Peter Sarnak

The Department of Mathematical Sciences is proud to announce Professor Peter Sarnak of Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study as the next distinguished Harald Bohr lecturer. His lecture, titled “Navigating U(2) with Golden Gates” takes place on Tuesday 13 June at 15:15 pm, in Auditorium 4.

Research support for biostatistics and L-functions

Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences awards 51 DFF-Research Project Grants to researchers in Denmark to the sum of approximately DKK 159 million. Two of these projects are led by researchers from the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Researchers demonstrate poor methodology behind PISA studies

Two Danish researchers exposes in a new book extensive faults and deficiencies in the PISA methodology and the use of statistics.

Sparreska Prize to Dan Petersen

The Sparreska Prize will be rewarded to Dan Petersen, associate professor at Department for Mathematical Sciences, by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Elite Research Prize won by Søren Galatius

On February 23, Professor Søren Galatius of the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Mathematical Sciences received one of five Elite Research Prizes presented annually by the Minister for Higher Education and Science. The 1.2 million kroner prize honors Galatius’ groundbreaking research in a branch of mathematics known as topology.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant to QMATH postdoc

Jed Kaniewski, postdoc at QMATH, has won a competitive Marie Curie-Fellowship, which he will carry at our department during the next two years.

The big win is simple mathematics

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