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 […]