Department of Mathematical Sciences

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Two mathematicians elected to the Academy of Science

Copenhagen University and the Department of Mathematical Sciences are well represented among the new members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Gerd Grubb receives a Swedish honorary doctorate

Lund University promotes Gerd Grubb to honorary doctor and holds a seminar in her honor.

Professor Michael Sørensen new Head of Department

Michael Sørensen will 1 August 2016 take over as Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, where he has been a professor of mathematical statistics since 1997. For almost 10 years he has been Deputy Head of Research.

DeLong lectures by UCPH mathematician

Associate Professor Magdalena Musat delivered the prestigious DeLong Lecture Series at University of Colorado, Boulder, 5-6 April 2016.

Søren Galatius, professor of topology

The Dean has appointed Søren Galatius Professor of Topology at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

DFF-grant for DNA detective

Therese Graversen is not the first statistician to receive a postdoc grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research. But she may be the first to receive the grant from the council of Technology and Production Sciences.

She finds stability in symmetry

What do you get out of researching in symmetry, infinity and holes? The magazine Ingeniøren has asked Professor Nathalie Wahl at the Department of Mathematical Sciences to describe her field of research, algebraic topology.

Nina Munkholt Jakobsen, postdoc

As of 1 March 2016, Nina Munkholt Jakobsen is employed in a 3-year postdoc position in the Laboratory for Applied Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Obituary: Jens Hugger

The Department of Mathematical Sciences has lost its numerical analyst. Jens Hugger died on 4 March 2016.

Vibeke Quorning, PhD student

Vibeke Quorning is employed as a PhD student at MATH from 15 February 2016. She is partially founded by Lars Hesselholt's Niels Bohr Professorship.

Visiting associate professor Toke L. Knudsen

Mathematical historian Toke Lindegaard Knudsen is employed as associate professor from 1 February to 31 July 2016. He will be associated with the GAMP section.

Upcoming MATH professor receives ERC Grant

European Research Council (ERC) has today announced that the Danish mathematician, Professor Søren Galatius, is awarded the prestigious 2015 Consolidator Grant.

Open House for high school students

All 21 undergraduate programs at SCIENCE arrange a joint Open House for high school students and other prospective students. Here is the opportunity to meet students, see the facilities and talk with teachers.

Marie Curie grant to Sinan Yalin

MATH postdoc Sinan Yalin has received a Marie Curie Research Fellowship. The 166,829 € grant will be hosted at the Center for Symmetry and Deformation.

MATH professor: Ramsey curse is bogus

A celebrity dies when the English footballer Aaron Ramsey scores. That's the story reported on the internet and in the English media. Pure nonsense, says Professor Rolf Poulsen to the magazine Videnskab.dk.