EPSRC Successes for Heriot-Watt’s Marcelo Pereyra and Michela Ottobre
Professors Marcelo Pereyra and Michela Ottobre of Heriot-Watt University have been recently awarded EPSRC funding for their research. Many congratulations to both! Prof. Pereyra has received a 5 year, £1.5 million, EPSRC Fellowship to work on “Learned Quantitative Stochastic Imaging”. Click here for more information. Prof. Ottobre will be working on Applied Stochastic Analysis with […]
LMS Whitehead Prize for Dr Alessandro Sisto
In June 2024, Alessandro Sisto of Heriot-Watt University was awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society for his outstanding contributions to geometric group theory, particularly his groundbreaking work on hierarchically hyperbolic spaces, together with Behrstock and Hagen. This work makes it possible to understand the large-scale geometry of many groups and spaces, modelled […]
Prof. Ivan Cheltsov Awarded Simons Foundation Grant
Professor Ivan Cheltsov, Personal Chair in Birational Geometry at the University of Edinburgh, has received a grant from the Simons Foundation as part of the Simons Collaboration on Moduli of Varieties. The Collaboration is led by James McKernan at the University of California, San Diego with the other PIs at Imperial College, Utah, Princeton, Michigan, […]
ERC Starting Grant Success
Dr Kaibo Hu, Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, has successfully received funding for his ERC Starting Grant “GeoFEM: Geometric Finite Element Methods”. The project will address the fundamental problem of discretising high-order tensors by bringing together geometry, algebra, PDEs and numerical analysis to develop an algebraic framework and a systematic […]
Prof. Jacques Vanneste appointed Co-Convenor of Maxwell Institute
Professor Jacques Vanneste has been appointed as the University of Edinburgh Co-Convenor of the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences as of August 2024. He succeeds Professor Kostas Zygalakis who has served the Maxwell Institute for the last year and a half. We would like to thank Kostas for all of his hard work and extend […]
Mathematics Showdown 2023
As part of the Edinburgh Science Festival in May, five MAC-MIGS PhD students presented engaging short talks to the public at a “Mathematics Showdown” comedy evening in the Bayes Centre. The evening was a huge success, and the talks are now available to watch here on the Maxwell Institute Youtube channel.
Prof. Ruth King Appointed Bayes Centre Director
Professor Ruth King, the Thomas Bayes Chair of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed as the next Director of the Bayes Centre. Ruth will take over from Michael Rovatsos in August 2023 and will hold the post for an initial five years, sharing her time between Bayes and Mathematics. The Maxwell Institute […]
ICMS receives £5M from EPSRC Additional Funding Programme for Mathematical Sciences
The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), jointly operated by Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh, is delighted to announce that it has been awarded an additional grant of £5M to support the mathematical sciences community over the next five years. The grant will increase the range and scope of what ICMS does – […]
Prof. Minhyong Kim appointed Director of ICMS and Sir Edmund Whittaker Prof. of Mathematical Sciences
Professor Minhyong Kim has been appointed as Director of the ICMS and Sir Edmund Whittaker Professor of Mathematical Sciences at both Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh, with effect from September 2021. Minhyong is the first full-time director of the ICMS and the first joint professor in the Maxwell Institute. For details see https://www.icms.org.uk/news/icms-appoints-new-director-0