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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".

Samuele Soraggi, PhD student

Samuele Soraggi is hired as a PhD student from February 2015. He will be involved in the project "The Genomic History of Denmark", and here on MATH affiliated with the research group Statistics and Probability Theory.

Retirement reception for professor Ib Michael Skovgaard

Ib Michael Skovgaard has decided to retire from his position as professor in statistics as of 30 November 2014. The Department of Mathematical Sciences will host a reception for Ib Friday 20 February 2015.

Cello and chalk – Bach and Fermat

The mathematician Matthias Kreck, professor at Bonn University in Germany, visited MATH 9 January 2015 to give his lecture/performance M³ - Music, Mathematics & Malerei.

Niels Benedikter, postdoc

Robyn Stuart, postdoc

Susanne Ditlevsen and Brain-Madsen

Professor Susanne Ditlevsen from the Department of Mathematical Sciences was guest of Peter Lund Madsen (called Brain-Madsen) when his radio program visited UCPH on 5 January 2015.

Mareile Große Ruse, PhD student

Jacob Østergaard, PhD student

Additional grant to Sune Precht Reeh

Sune Precht Reeh, who is currently a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been awarded an extra Sapere Aude grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF). It makes it possible for him to expand his network among top scientists in USA and Canada.

Michal Adamaszek, postdoc

Michal Adamaszek started in a postdoc position at the Department of Mathematical Sciences December 1^st 2014. He is associated with research group Experimental Mathematics.

Nadim Rustom, postdoc

Nadim Rustom was employed as postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences in October 2014. He is a member of the Algebra and Number Theory group and the Experimental Mathematics group.

Dan Petersen, assistant professor