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SCIENCE Business Prize to Mogens Steffensen

Professor Mogens Steffensen has been awarded the SCIENCE Business Prize, which is awarded to those who make a special effort to make new knowledge available to companies and authorities.

Green Transition: Optimization of the logistics for car sharing

Operational Research and advanced stochastic optimization techniques can help make car-sharing more widespread and easier to use.

Nordentoft win SCIENCE PhD Award of the year

The SCIENCE PhD Award of the year has been given to three excellent PhD students. Among them was Asbjørn Nordentoft from MATH.

Susanne Ditlevsen Vice President of the Royal Academy

Susanne Ditlevsen has been elected vice president of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and class chair of the natural sciences class.

Developing a unified statistical framework for analyzing microbiome data

Assistant professor Niklas Pfister has received a 9.8 million DKK Data Science Emerging Investigator grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for his research project CausalBiome.

Obituary of Asmus Schmidt

Our longtime colleague, associate professor Asmus Schmidt has passed away. His work manifested itself in research, teaching and administration.

Marie Curie grants to Moon, Schmidt and Kock

Two postdocs and an associate professor have each won a competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, which they will carry at our department during the next two years. They will research in spectral gap stability,…

Asbjørn's thesis on mathematical quantum mechanics was the best

The Danish Mathematical Society has awarded the Edlund-DMF Thesis Prize for 2020 to Asbjørn Bækgaard Lauritsen, a graduate of the University of Copenhagen. He receives the prize for the thesis “A Mathematical Formulatio…

Henri Poincaré Prize awarded to Jan Philip Solovej

The International Association of Mathematical Physics has awarded Professor Jan Philip Solovej with its highest honour. He is the first Danish researcher to receive the prize.

Tobias Holck Colding to give Plenary Lecture at ICM

Adjunct professor Tobias Holck Colding will be Plenary Lecturer at The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in St Petersburg, Russia, July 2022.

International Postdoctoral Grant to three young mathematicians

The Independent Research Fund Denmark makes it possible for three researchers, educated at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, to do research on arithmetic statistics in Paris, graphs and operator algebra in…

Algorithm reveals the mysterious foraging habits of narwhals

An algorithm can predict when narwhals hunt – a task once nearly impossible to gain insight into. Mathematicians and computer scientists at the University of Copenhagen, together with marine biologists in Greenland, hav…

GAUSS Prize to Bladt & Steffensen for outstanding work

Mogens Bladt and Mogens Steffensen from the University of Copenhagen, and Søren Asmussen from the University of Aarhus, have won the Gauss Prize for their article “Matrix representations of life insurance payments”.

New research project combines social and mathematical sciences

How do past life events affect the future life trajectory of Danish individuals? That is the theme for a cross-disciplinary project awarded a DATA+ grant from the University of Copenhagen.

Operator algebras receives DFF-grant for research in quantum mathematics

The operator algebras groups at UCPH and SDU (Odense) was granted more than 5 MDKK for the DFF (Independent Research Fund Denmark) Research project 2 ”Operator Algebras, Groups, and Quantum Spaces”.

New names

Taro Spirig, PhD student

Taro Spirig was employed on 2 October 2023 as a PhD student at the Centre for the Mathematics of…

Priya Kaveri, PhD student

Priya Kaveri Vydhyanathapuram Venkitadri started on 1 November 2023 as a PhD student in the…

Rune Thinggaard Hansen, PhD student

Rune Thinggaard Hansen was employed on 1 October 2023 as a PhD student at the QMATH Centre and the…

Peter Hearnshaw, postdoc

Peter Hearnshaw was employed as a postdoc on 1 October 2023 in the department’s Analysis and Quantu…