Department of Mathematical Sciences

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Sho Tanimoto, new postdoc

Sho Tanimoto arrived at MATH/UCPH on July 1st, 2015, as a postdoc funded by Lars Hesselholt's Niels Bohr professorship.

MATH team successful in DREAM Challenge

Five statistics students from the Department of Mathematical Sciences made a “top performance” in an international competition, which aims to improve the prediction of survival time for patients with prostate cancer.

Obituary: Tage Gutmann Madsen

Tage Gutmann Madsen has been a part of the Department of Mathematical Sciences since 1956 - as a teacher, Associate Professor, Head of Department and an emeritus. He died 1 June 2015, 88 years old.

Researchers and businesses focus on exchange rate stability

In collaboration with Global Currency Union, a private entrepreneurial company, MATH hosts a conference on exchange rate stability, Thursday 25 June 2015.

Magnus Goffeng, guest postdoc

Magnus Goffeng started at MATH/UCPH on June 1st, 2015, as a postdoc funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for two years. The last four years Magnus has been a postdoc at the Institute for Analysis at the Leibniz University of Hannover in Germany.

Mathematician admitted to The Young Academy

The Young Academy, created by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, has just admitted nine new members, all of which are excellent, young researchers within their field of study. One of these is Elisenda Feliu, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Ryo Horiuchi, PhD student

Ryo Horiuchi is employed as a PhD student at MATH from June 2015, funded by Lars Hesselholt's Niels Bohr Professorship.

Dimitrios Askitis, PhD student

Dimitrios Askitis was employed as a PhD student at the Department on 15th May 2015. He is a part of the section Geometric Analysis and Mathematical Physics, with Henrik Laurberg Pedersen as his PhD advisor.

Asger Törnquist new Associate Professor

The Dean has appointed Asger Törnquist as associate professor in descriptive set theory at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Anton Samojlow, PhD student

Anton Samojlow was employed as a PhD student at the Department 1 April 2015. He is a part of the section Geometric Analysis and Mathematical Physics, with Jan Philip Solovej as his PhD advisor.

Janne Kool, postdoc

Erik Christensen retires after 50 years with mathematics

From 1 May 2015 Erik Christensen will be emeritus at the Department of Mathematical Sciences. It will be marked by a week-long conference, and by Eric's own retirement lecture on Thursday 7 May.

Harald Bohr Lecture by Efim Zelmanov

The Department is proud to announce Professor Efim Zelmanov from UC San Diego as the next Harald Bohr Lecturer on Tuesday 14 April 2015. His lecture is titled ”Some open questions on asymptotics of groups and algebras”.

Professor Adeline Samson visits MATH

The Velux Fonden Visiting Professor Programme has made it possible for the Department of Mathematical Sciences to invite Professor Adeline Samson to visit the department for a period of 6 month, from 15 April to 14 October 2015.

Harald Bohr Lecture by Persi Diaconis

The Department is proud to announce Professor Persi Diaconis as the next lecturer in the Harald Bohr lecture series on Tuesday 24 March 2015, with the lecture "Adding Numbers and Shuffling Cards".