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News from 2012
12th November 2012
Lynne Walling and Trevor Wooley made Fellows of the AMS
Lynne Walling and Trevor Wooley have both been made Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The Fellows of the AMS designation recognises members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilisation of mathematics.
6th July 2012
0.9M pounds to forecast volcanic eruptions
Researchers at the the Cabot Institute and the Schools of Earth Sciences, Geographical Sciences and Mathematics are part of a new five-year interdisciplinary study exploring better ways to forecast and cope with volcanic eruptions. Bristol has secured 0.9 million of the project's 3 million pounds funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
2nd July 2012
Corinna Ulcigrai wins European Mathematical Society prize
Corinna Ulcigrai has been awarded an European Mathematical Society prize for advancing understanding of dynamical systems and the mathematical characterizations of chaos, and especially for solving a long-standing fundamental question on the mixing property for locally Hamiltonian surface flows.
29th June 2012
Andreas Winter and Trevor Wooley win LMS prizes
Andreas Winter is awarded a Whitehead Prize for his major contributions to key areas of quantum information theory. Trevor Wooley, FRS has been awarded the Froehlich Prize for his work in analytic number theory, and in particular his spectacular advances in the study of Waring's problem on representing integers as a sum of kth powers
12th June 2012
Tim Browning awarded ERC starting independent researcher grant
With this prestigious grant the European Research Council will support Tim Browning's research on "Frontiers of Analytic Number Theory and Selected Topics".
10th May 2012
Separating signal from noise in living cells
Clive Bowsher and Peter Swain (Synthetic and Systems Biology Edinburgh) show in PNAS how to decompose stochastic fluctuations and separate 'signal' from 'noise' when studying the mechanisms of living cells. In their paper the authors make rigorous connections between the concept of intrinsic noise in systems biology, the notion of information capacity used in communications engineering, and a correlation ratio introduced in the 1950s by Alfred Renyi.
3rd May 2012
Simplicity and (quantum) complexity of simulating reality
Karoline Wiesner and collaborators demonstrate that quantum dynamics can be exploited to make identical predictions of the future as classical physics but with less memory than classical physics requires. The operation of many complex organisms is based on a simulation of reality. However, if quantum dynamics can be exploited to make identical predictions with less memory, then such systems need not be as complex as originally thought.
20th April 2012
John McNamara elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
John McNamara, Professor of Mathematics and Biology at the University of Bristol, has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society. The Royal Society is the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth, and the fellowships are offered to the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists.
20th April 2012
Two new Fellows of the Royal Society
Rich Kerswell, Professor of Applied Mathematics and John McNamara, Professor of Mathematics and Biology have been elected fellows of the Royal Society. The Royal Society is the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth, and the fellowships are offered to the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists.
20th April 2012
Rich Kerswell elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
Rich Kerswell, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bristol, has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society. The Royal Society is the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth, and the fellowships are offered to the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists.
9th February 2012
Fridge Gate: Logic gate driven fridge
Noah Linden, Nicolas Brunner, Sandu Popescu and Paul Skrzypczyk have found that a single logic gate may drive a refrigerator. In the words of Renato Renner, this is "a beautiful demonstration that information-processing devices can have useful thermodynamic properties".
18th January 2012
Postgraduate Open Day
This is an opportunity to visit the School of Mathematics, learn about current research and possible research projects, meet potential supervisors, and talk to current postgraduate students. Registration closes on 11 January 2012. A contribution will be made towards reasonable intra-UK travel expenses (eg., 2nd class railfare).