Department of Mathematical Sciences

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Inaugural lectures by Jonas Peters and Karim Adiprasito

Jonas Peters, Professor of Statistics, and Karim Adiprasito, Professor of Mathematics, will give their inaugural lectures Friday 24 January 2020 at 13:30 followed by a reception.

MATH team clear winner of international data-climate competition

Team CoCaLa, four PhD students and two postdocs from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, won the international competition "Causality 4 Climate" by proposing models and solutions in 34 different categories in climate research.

Rune Christiansen wins award for the best student talk

At the conference of the International Biometric Society in Adelaide, Australia, Rune received the award of the best student talk for his presentation about causal inference on spatio-temporal data.

Workshop on machine learning and pension companies

Together with the Department of Finance at CBS, the Department of Mathematical Sciences will focus on methods for better prediction methods on an individualized level.

Shabby, random calculations and poor math

Several mathematicians are commenting on errors and shortcomings in the Radio and Television Board's tendering process concerning a new DAB radio channel. The headline above comes from professor of statistics Susanne Ditlevsen’s statement in Ekstra Bladet. Her colleague Rolf Poulsen has expressed something similar to the newspaper Berlingske.

World leading mathematicians to solve mysteries at the interface of geometry and topology

An array of fundamental and unanswered questions in mathematics lie at the intersection of geometry and topology. With a 60 million kroner grant from the Danish National Research Foundation to establish a new research center, University of Copenhagen mathematicians hope to solve a few of these decades-old problems.

Mathematicians chart human prehistory

Mathematicians, statisticians and bioinformatics from the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus are developing tools to make DNA discoveries even more useful in mapping human prehistory. Professor Carsten Wiuf from the Department of Mathematical Sciences is leading the project.

Marie Curie grant to Simon Gritschacher

Simon Gritschacher, postdoc at the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation, has won the competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, which he will carry at our department.

Award to mathematician for best PhD thesis

Manuel Krannich today receives one of the three awards awarded by the SCIENCE Faculty for the best PhD dissertation of the year (submitted in 2018). He receives the award for the thesis "On characteristic classes of manifold bundles", supervised by Nathalie Wahl, Department of Mathematical Sciences.

The ever-winning lottery ticket: Mathematicians solve a dusty mystery

After years of work, University of Copenhagen mathematics researchers have answered a mysterious half-century-old riddle. The mystery was all but forgotten until a Danish researcher heard about, and then decided to tackle it.

Danish mathematician solves lottery puzzle from 1969

Is there a lottery voucher that will at some point with 100 percent certainty win the very big lottery win? The short answer is no. The newspaper Politiken has interviewed Asger Dag Törnquist from the Department of Mathematical Sciences about the riddle and his research.

International postdoctoral grant to Martin Speirs

The Independent Research Fund Denmark is investing just under DKK 22 million this year in 16 younger researchers' careers and original ideas, which have the potential to grow significantly in an international research context. One of the 16 is Martin Speirs, PhD from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen.

Statistics - the scalpel of science

Lone Frank's science magazine on Radio24syv, "24 Questions for the Professor", has been visited by Susanne Ditlevsen, professor of statistics from the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Better gender distribution in mathematics

The Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen has registered 9% more students than last year. UCPH has an average increase of 6.6%. The increase at SCIENCE is partly due to the two new undergraduate programs “Machine learning & computer science” and “Computer Science and Economy”.

Frontiers in Quantitative Finance

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 Business School.