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Christian Furrer awarded with the GAUSS Prize

Christian Furrer from the University of Copenhagen and PFA Pension has been awarded this year's GAUSS Prize by the German Association of Actuaries for outstanding scientific work in insurance and financial mathematics.

Susanne Ditlevsen in the media about corona statistics

On 14 April 2020, the newspaper website Berlingske.dk brought an interview with Susanne Ditlevsen, professor of statistics, in which she repeated her call to conduct randomized tests of a wide sample of the population. Otherwise, authorities will grope in blind if another wave of corona virus strikes later in the year, she believes.

Coronavirus overview: Here’s the app you were looking for

Three math PhD students from University of Copenhagen have developed an interactive app that, among other things, provides an easy way to get an overview of how the coronavirus pandemic is spreading through Denmark and across the globe. Furthermore, the app attempts to put a figure on the estimated number of infections.

New research project about statistical inference

The Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) supports the development of new robust statistical methods for analyzing large and complex volumes of data. Professor Susanne Ditlevsen is to lead the four-year research project.

Novo Nordisk supports research in mathematical biology

Mathematical tools and methods can lead to breakthroughs in medical research. That’s recognized in the Novo Nordisk Foundation, who is funding another research project at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Five new Marie Curie Fellows

The Department has been awarded five of the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships. Congratulations to the five postdoc fellows and their mentors.

Upcoming MATH researcher receives VILLUM grant

VILLUM FONDEN announced today, that the Villum Young Investigator grant is awarded to mathematician Torben Krüger. He will from 1 July 2020 be an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Inaugural lectures by Jonas Peters and Karim Adiprasito

Jonas Peters, Professor of Statistics, and Karim Adiprasito, Professor of Mathematics, will give their inaugural lectures Friday 24 January 2020 at 13:30 followed by a reception.

MATH team clear winner of international data-climate competition

Team CoCaLa, four PhD students and two postdocs from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, won the international competition "Causality 4 Climate" by proposing models and solutions in 34 different categories in climate research.

Rune Christiansen wins award for the best student talk

At the conference of the International Biometric Society in Adelaide, Australia, Rune received the award of the best student talk for his presentation about causal inference on spatio-temporal data.

Workshop on machine learning and pension companies

Together with the Department of Finance at CBS, the Department of Mathematical Sciences will focus on methods for better prediction methods on an individualized level.

Shabby, random calculations and poor math

Several mathematicians are commenting on errors and shortcomings in the Radio and Television Board's tendering process concerning a new DAB radio channel. The headline above comes from professor of statistics Susanne Ditlevsen’s statement in Ekstra Bladet. Her colleague Rolf Poulsen has expressed something similar to the newspaper Berlingske.

World leading mathematicians to solve mysteries at the interface of geometry and topology

An array of fundamental and unanswered questions in mathematics lie at the intersection of geometry and topology. With a 60 million kroner grant from the Danish National Research Foundation to establish a new research center, University of Copenhagen mathematicians hope to solve a few of these decades-old problems.

Mathematicians chart human prehistory

Mathematicians, statisticians and bioinformatics from the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus are developing tools to make DNA discoveries even more useful in mapping human prehistory. Professor Carsten Wiuf from the Department of Mathematical Sciences is leading the project.

Marie Curie grant to Simon Gritschacher

Simon Gritschacher, postdoc at the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation, has won the competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, which he will carry at our department.