News 2012
- 2012
- Top 5 placings in league tables (23rd May 2012)
- David Preiss awarded Ostrowski Prize (19th March 2012)
- Robert MacKay interviewed as President of the IMA (16th February 2012)
- David Preiss awarded ERC Advanced Fellowship (10th January 2012)
- 2011
23rd May 2012
Top 5 placings in league tables
The UK universities league table season is upon us once again. Whilst some of the methodology can lead to some surprises, it always seems preferable to be nearer the top than the bottom,.
Two recently updated tables place Warwick in the top five: The Guardian table ranks departments based on factors related to the choice of degree course for incoming students such as student satisfaction, student/staff ratios and employability after a successful completion whilst the Complete University Guide also includes performance in the periodic research assessments, of importance when choosing a place to study for an advanced degree.
19th March 2012
David Preiss awarded Ostrowski Prize
The Ostrowski Foundation has announced that Professor David Preiss FRS has been awarded the prestigious Ostrowski Prize for 2011 which he shares with Ib Madsen and Kannan Soundararajan.
The Ostrowski Prize is an award for outstanding achievements in pure mathematics and the foundations of numerical mathematics given every other year by the Ostrowski Foundation. Recipients are selected by an international jury from the universities of Basel, Jerusalem, Waterloo and the academies of Denmark and the Netherlands. Alexander Ostrowski, a longtime professor at the University of Basel, left his estate to the foundation in order to establish a prize. Previous winners include Ben Green FRS, Richard Taylor FRS and Sir Andrew Wiles FRS.
16th February 2012
Robert MacKay interviewed as President of the IMA
Professor Robert MacKay FRS FInstP FIMA took up his two-year Presidency of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) in January 2012. The IMA is the UK's learned and professional society for mathematics and its applications.
“I hope to contribute to resolving the controversial issues of impact and resource allocation for UK mathematics and to the UK's involvement in the Mathematics for Planet Earth 2013 initiative and to contribute to increasing skills in mathematics and appreciation for mathematics at school.”
He was interviewed for the February issue of Mathematics Today, the membership magazine of the IMA, and the text is available as a PDF from the IMA website.
10th January 2012
David Preiss awarded ERC Advanced Fellowship
The European Research Council has awarded a 5-year Advanced Fellowship to Professor David Preiss to study “Local Structure of Sets, Measures and Currents”.
The objective of the research is to develop new methods to answer a number of fundamental questions generated by the recent development of modern analysis. The questions we are interested in are specifically related to the study of local structure of sets and functions in the classical Euclidean setting, in infinite dimensional Banach spaces and in the modern setting of analysis on metric spaces. The main areas of study will be:
- (a) Structure of null sets and representation of (singular) measures, one of the key motivations being the differentiability of Lipschitz functions in finite dimensional spaces.
- (b) Nonlinear geometric functional analysis, with particular attention to the differentiability of Lipschitz functions in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces and Banach spaces with separable dual.
- (c) Foundations of analysis on metric spaces, the key problems here being representation results for Lipschitz differentiability spaces and spaces satisfying the Poincare inequality.
- (d) Uniqueness of tangent structure in various settings, where the ultimate goal is to contribute to the fundamental problem whether minimal surfaces (in their geometric measure theoretic model as area minimizing integral currents) have a unique behaviour close to any point.
