аĿª½±honorary member wins 2014 Abel Prize

The President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Nils Chr. Stenseth has announced that Professor Yakov G. Sinai, Princeton University, USA, and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences has been awarded the 2014 Abel Prize ‘for his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics’. The Abel Prize has been awarded annually since 2003 and carries a cash award of NOK 6,000,000 (about EUR 750,000 or USD 1 million).

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Bristol researcher strikes Gold for mathematics display in Parliament

Dr David Platt, a researcher at the University of Bristol, won the Gold medal (sponsored by the Clay Mathematics Institute) at a competition in the House of Commons, for the excellence of his mathematics research, walking away with a £3,000 prize. This is the first time a mathematical sciences section has been included in SET for Britain.

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Women in Mathematics Day 2014

Women in Mathematics Day is an annual event and members are asked to encourage women mathematicians, particularly students (including final year undergraduates) and those at an early stage of their career, to attend this meeting. Postgraduates, postdocs and research assistants are invited to participate in the event by giving a talk or presenting a poster.

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The Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2014

The call for applications for the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2014 is now open. The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is a unique opportunity for excellent young mathematicians and computer scientists to meet eminent experts from both fields in a very special environment. The first Forum took place in September 2013 and brought together outstanding students in mathematics and computer science with winners of the most prestigious awards in these two disciplines: Abel, Fields, Nevanlinna and Turing.

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Jean-Pierre Bourguignon to lead ERC

The eminent French mathematician Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is to become the next President of the European Research Council (ERC) based in Brussels. Bourguignon will take up the role in January 2014.

From 1994 until August 2013 Bourguignon was director of France’s Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies in Bures-sur-Yvette and will take over from Helga Nowotny, who has been ERC President since 2010. The position will also include the responsibilities of secretary-general.

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SET Awards 2013

The winners of the 2013 SET Awards were announced at a ceremony in Kensington Town Hall attended by students, academics and business leaders. A record numbers of entries were received for the 2013 awards.

The Award for the Best Mathematics Student, judged by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and the London Mathematical Society, went to William Perry, University of Oxford, for his work on spin two-dimensional local field theories. According to the judges the entries for this year’s mathematics category were of an extremely high standard.

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