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Machine Learning means new tools for the financial sector. They will be in focus at a workshop organized by the Department of Mathematical Sciences in collaboration with the Department of Finance at the Copenhagen…

Charles H. Bennett of IBM, a pioneer of quantum information science, will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen on 8 November 2019 upon recommendation of the Department of Mathematics.

Many mathematicians have unsuspecting jobs. Some ward off cyber-attacks, others juggle billions. The range of jobs available and demand for number crunchers is high and unemployment virtually non-existent.

The Departments of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science run a pilot project which may eventually lead to a future joint Master of Quantum Science (QMSc). The pilot project starts in the Fall term of 2019. It is a…

Professor of Insurance Mathematics Thomas Mikosch has received a grant from the Danish Free Research Foundation (DFF) for the project "A large deviations approach to heavy-tailed time series".

The newspaper Berlingske has once again named Denmark's 100 most talented from all corners of Danish business. Over 400 talented and ambitious young people have been nominated by their boss or a colleague. Four of the…

Jonas Peters has been awarded The Guy Medal in Bronze from the Royal Statistical Society. He will be presented with the award at a ceremony during RSS’s annual conference in Belfast in September.

Elisenda Feliu, associate professor in mathematics, receives a 1.3 million DKK research grant for the project “Understanding bistability underlying acute and chronic infections in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa“.

Albert H. Werner, Postdoc in quantum information at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, has received 10 million DKK from the VILLUM Young Investigator Program.

35-year-old assistant professor and statistician Therese Graversen of the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Mathematical Sciences has won the SCIENCE Dissemination Award 2018 presented by UCPH’s Faculty of…

The Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Computer Science are behind new bachelor's programme, which has just been approved by Tommy Ahlers, Minister of Education and Research.

Professor Matthias Christandl of the Department of Mathematical Sciences has just received the European Research Council's Consolidator Grant, awarded to outstanding scientists with a promising scientific career.

Mogens Bladt, professor of applied probability and insurance mathematics, and Mathias Drton, professor of statistics, will give their inaugural lectures Friday 2 November 2018 at 14:00 followed by a reception.

Rune Haugseng, who has been a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences since 2015, is the first recipient of the Norwegian Mathematical Association's Viggo Brun Prize. The prize will be awarded to younger…

The Danish Mathematical Association's Thesis Prize of DKK 15,000 will be awarded to Martin Emil Jakobsen on Friday, 7 September 2018.