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2019.12.18

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.

2019.09.30

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.

2019.09.27

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.

2019.09.20

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.

2019.09.09

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.

2019.09.08

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.

2019.08.21

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.

2019.08.19

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.

2019.08.12

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”.

2019.08.01

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.

2019.07.04

Quantum information pioneer to be awarded honorary doctorate

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.

Department of Mathematical Sciences

MATH team clear winner of international data-climate competition

Rune Christiansen wins award for the best student talk

Workshop on machine learning and pension companies

Shabby, random calculations and poor math

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

Mathematicians chart human prehistory

Marie Curie grant to Simon Gritschacher

Award to mathematician for best PhD thesis

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

Danish mathematician solves lottery puzzle from 1969

International postdoctoral grant to Martin Speirs

Statistics - the scalpel of science

Better gender distribution in mathematics

Frontiers in Quantitative Finance

Quantum information pioneer to be awarded honorary doctorate

New Names

Carlos Miguel Dos Santos Oliveira, Assistant Professor

Oscar Peralta Gutierrez, Associate Professor

Asbjørn Risom, PhD

Nikolaj Thams, Assistant Professor

Tobias Boesen Larsen, PhD

Frigg Maj Nøhr Larsen, PhD