2025.01.31 Lifelong learning in quantum science The Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Niels Bohr Institute have teamed up with DTU to develop new teaching programmes in quantum science. The programmes will be aimed at high schools, universities and continuing education for high school teachers.
2025.01.28 Obituary of Kjeld Bagger Laursen Associate Professor Emeritus Kjeld Bagger Laursen died on 11 January 2025, aged 83. His research in Banach algebra and operator theory and his contribution to science didactics are described here by Niels Grønbæk.
2024.11.21 Danish actuarial students finalists in MIPC 2024 The McGill International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC) is the pioneer of case competitions that target innovative portfolio design and institutional asset management. The Danish solution was selected among the top five out of 98 submissions.
2024.11.21 InterAct Day about fairness and smoothing The second InterAct Day on 15 November 2024 had around 65 participants, who benefited from new research insights and networking opportunities.
2024.10.31 Livestream about Numbers, coincidences and tipping points On 5 November 2024, statistician Susanne Ditlevsen will give lectures in cinemas, libraries, public universities, cultural centres, high schools, and schools in cities across the country, including Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
2024.10.03 Quantum researchers come up with a recipe that could accelerate drug development University of Copenhagen mathematicians have developed a recipe for upgrading quantum computers to simulate complex quantum systems, such as molecules. Their discovery brings us closer to being able to predict how new drugs will behave within our bodies and has the potential to revolutionize pharmaceutical development.
2024.09.27 Robert Burklund receives memorial scholarship The Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science (SNU) presented 7 October the prestigious Kirstine Meyer Memorial Scholarship to Robert Burklund from, GeoTop, Department of Mathematical Sciences.
2024.09.18 Matthias Christandl appointed Turing Chair Professor Matthias Christandl has been appointed the “2024 Turing Chair” at the Dutch research centre for quantum software & technology, QUSoft.
2024.09.10 ERC Starting Grant for Ryomei Iwasa Postdoc Ryomei Iwasa has received a € 1.5 million Starting Grant from the European Research Council for his project about Motivic Stable Homotopy Theory.
2024.09.06 Concrete abstractions Professor Nathalie Wahl has won 2nd place in the DNRF's photo competition 2024 with a photo that shows how mathematicians use the blackboard to capture wild ideas and infinite spaces.
2024.09.02 Successful international conference on actuarial risks The first Scandinavian Actuarial Conference was held in Copenhagen, from 15 to 16 August 2024, hosted by The Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
2024.08.28 Obituary for Inge Henningsen Emeritus associate professor Inge Henningsen, who died on 5 August 2024 at the age of 83, played a central role in the statistics group at the department and at the former Department of Mathematical Statistics for many years.
2024.08.08 Still debate about Ditlevsen's AMOC research One year after Susanne and Peter Ditlevsen demonstrated that the AMOC ocean current could stop this century, the results are still hotly debated among climate scientists and in the press, with new studies pointing in the same direction and other studies that are critical. Various international media are still addressing the issue.
2024.07.10 Giovanni Pantuso granted 10 million DKK from NNF NERD The Novo Nordisk Foundation’s programme “New Exploratory Research and Discovery” (NERD) aims to support research projects “based on wild and unorthodox ideas that can produce new knowledge”. Giovanni Pantuso, associate professor in Operations Research, meets the NERD criteria.
2024.07.02 Søren Galatius receives award from the association AMR The Association for Mathematical Research (AMR) has July 1st 2024 awarded Professor Søren Galatius from University of Copenhagen the new Fred R. Cohen Prize.