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Freek Witteveen awarded the Stieltjes Prize

Postdoc Freek Witteveen won the prestigious Dutch PhD Stieltjes Prize for the academic year 2021-2022.

COVID calculations spur solution to old problem in computer science

Mathematician from University of Copenhagen was keen to forecast the evolvement of the COVID epidemic. Instead, he ended up solving a problem which had troubled computer scientists for decades.

Actuarial scientist publishes in Nature

It rarely happens: A mathematician publishes on the front page of the renowned scientific journal Nature. However, that has just happened to Jesper Lund Pedersen and Peter Johnson, who have delivered calculations to researchers from the Department of Chemistry.

ERC Starting Grant for Laura Mančinska

Associate Professor Laura Mančinska has received a € 1.5 million Starting Grant from the European Research Council for her project “Quantum Information Processing with Interacting Parties”.

RECRUIT grant of 11.8 mio. DKK allows the Quantum for Life Centre to expand

Theoretical physicist Daniel Malz joins the University of Copenhagen in April 2023 with a RECRUIT grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The grant is given to the most talented or leading researchers to strengthen Danish universities in international competition.

Joined forces in new quantum community

A new quantum community at the Faculty of Science will take quantum research to new heights – and is open to all.

Obituary of Jens Peter Reus Christensen

Professor emeritus Christian Berg writes about his longtime colleague, Jens Peter Reus Christensen (18.4.1944 - 1.7.2022).

Jan Philip Solovej new president of EMS

The European Mathematical Society has at its June 2022 council meeting elected Professor Jan Philip Solovej as the next president of the Society.

Denmark's first quantum information science programme to open soon

With quantum technologies blossoming globally, the demand for quantum experts is already high across several sectors. To meet this demand, the University of Copenhagen will soon open Denmark's first quantum science programme in collaboration with DTU.

The Clay Research Award to Galatius & Randal-Williams

The 2022 Clay Research Award are made to Søren Galatius (University of Copenhagen) and Oscar Randal-Williams (University of Cambridge) for their profound contributions to the understanding of high dimensional manifolds and their diffeomorphism groups.

Elisenda Feilu receives prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant

The sought-after grant from ERC is given to groundbreaking and excellent research, and this time the honour goes to Elisenda Feliu from MATH.

Virtual ICM 2022 - International Congress in Copenhagen

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), originally planned to be held in St Petersburg this summer, has become an online event due to the war in Ukraine. The University of Copenhagen will play a prominent role in the Virtual ICM.

Inaugural lectures by Musat, Plesner Jakobsen & Pazuki

Professors Magdalena Elena Musat, Hans Plesner Jakobsen and Fabien Pazuki will give inaugural lectures on Friday 17 June 2020 followed by a reception.

Diploma Award to Dustin Clausen

Associate Professor Dustin Clausen has received the Hartmann Foundation's Diploma Prize 2022 for his work on developing and understanding the deep connection between geometry and number theory, two basic fields in mathematics.

A new tool in the fight against hackers

A new form of security identification could soon see the light of day and help us protect our data from hackers and cybercriminals. Quantum mathematicians at the University of Copenhagen have solved a mathematical riddle that allows for a person's geographical location to be used as a personal ID that is secure against even the most advanced cyber attacks.

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