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Generous gift by the Wolfson Foundation

Mathematical Sciences Building at Warwick£2 million gift to Mathematical Sciences at Warwick

We had some great news to round off 2016 when we heard that the Wolfson Foundation had agreed to make a £2m gift towards Warwick’s new Mathematical Sciences Building.

The new building will house researchers and students in our growing departments of Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics.

Warwick’s role as a founding member of the Alan Turing Institute (the UK’s National Institute for Data Science) means that these departments will increase by 10% over the next decade, and the new building will be a collaborative and open space for working across many different research projects.

The full cost of the new building will be around £27 million. It will be built in close proximity to the current Mathematical Sciences facilities and create a space for the co-location of inter-disciplinary research and training for the Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics departments.

The building will take their “without walls” approach to the next stage, guaranteeing a genuine multi-disciplinary mix of staff and students and further promoting interaction and integration. Construction will begin in the first half of 2017.

Professor Colin Sparrow, Professor of Mathematics and Head of Warwick’s Mathematics Institute said:

The University of Warwick’s Mathematical scientists have substantial world-renowned reputations for pure and applied research, developing new research programmes that make a difference globally. We are delighted with this award which will enable our three departments to grow and to work even more closely together. In particular, the new building will allow us to exploit Warwick’s position as one of the five UK universities recently chosen as partners in the creation of the Turing Institute, including interdisciplinary space for both research and teaching in data science; it will also allow us to bring our graduate training programmes closer together in a new Mathematical Sciences Graduate School.

Paul Ramsbottom, Chief Executive of the Wolfson Foundation, said:

The Wolfson Foundation is a charity that only makes awards following a rigorous review process, and our grants are intended to serve as a badge of excellence. The research that will take place within the new Mathematical Sciences building will be of the highest international quality. We are delighted again to be funding Warwick, and the quality of this project is demonstrated by the fact that this is our joint largest award this year.

Piqued your interest?

If you want to know more, please contact Jaine Fleetwood in our team today at J.Fleetwood@warwick.ac.uk