A packed New Theatre at the Colloquium in Combinatorics| held on 17th May at LSE
New book by Martin Anthony and Michele Harvey
Martin| and Michele, both from the Department of Mathematics, have written a new book entitled 'Linear Algebra: Concepts and Methods'|. As the publisher's website explains, "Any student of linear algebra will welcome this textbook, which provides a thorough treatment of this key topic. Blending practice and theory, the book enables the reader to learn and comprehend the standard methods, with an emphasis on understanding how they actually work...."
Congratulations to Hessah, Julian and Polly
Hessah Al-Motairi, Polly Lon and Julian Merschen have all been awarded their PhDs in Mathematics in the last month or so. For details of their thesis titles, supervisors, and the evergrowing list of PhD alumni of the department, have a look at our PhD 'Roll of Honour"|. Congratulations Dr Al-Motairi, Dr Lon and Dr Merschen!
Goodbye to Loraine
The Mathematics Department is very sorry to be saying goodbye to Loraine Evans, who left us in April to join LSE's Research Degrees Unit. We wish her the very best of luck in her new role, and as she hasn't gone far we know we'll still see her regularly.
Options Information for 1st and 2nd year Undergraduates|
Detailed information to help you choose your courses for next year is now available on our website, for any of you that missed the Lent Term Options Meeting. Please click here to see more|.
Welcome to Peter Allen and Julia Böttcher
The Mathematics Department is delighted to welcome two new lecturers, both starting in January 2012. Dr Peter Allen and Dr Julia Böttcher both come to us from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
National Student Survey|
Are you a 3rd year undergraduate student at LSE? If so, then please remember to take part in the National Student Survey|, which is currently underway, and can be completed between now and the end of April 2012.
It is your opportunity to influence developments in teaching and support at LSE, and in the Mathematics Department.
Haya Freedman Prize 2010/11
Congratulations to Robert John Arculus - winner of the Haya Freedman Prize for "Best Dissertation" 2010/11. To find out more about the Prize please click here|.
Mathematics Public Lecture: "Pricing the Future" by George Szpiro - 22nd November
|Dr George Szpiro is a journalist for the Neue Zuercher Zeitung and a highly-regarded popular science author who will present some of his recent writing on the history of financial mathematics. For more details, click here|.
Graduate/Alumni Careers Panel 2011|
The Mathematics Department recently hosted a very successful careers event, bringing alumni and representatives from a number of major employers to LSE for a networking lunch. To find out more, click here|.
Advent Software Scholarship 2011/12
Congratulations to Ananya Roy, MSc Applicable Mathematics - Ananya is this year's recipient of the Advent Software Scholarship|.
Goodbye to Malwina
The Mathematics Department is very sorry to be saying goodbye to Malwina Luczak, who left us at the end of August to take up a Professorship at the University of Sheffield. Malwina joined the department in September 2003. We wish her the very best of luck in her new role.
Cyril Offord Prize 2010/11
|Congratulations to Alexander Christou, Vanessa Do and Maathumei Vijayakumaraguru, joint winners of the Cyril Offord Prize| for outstanding performance in mathematics for 2010/11. More details here|.
Welcome (back) to Amol Sasane
The Mathematics Department is delighted to welcome back Dr Amol Sasane|. He rejoins us from KTH Stockholm, having been away for 18 months or so.
Congratulations to Ben Veal
Ben, a PhD student in the Maths Department, was formally awarded his PhD in Mathematics on the 31st May 2011. Ben's thesis was entitled 'Binary similarity measures and their applications in machine learning', and he was supervised by Prof. Martin Anthony. Congratulations, Dr Veal!
Congratulations to Fares Al-Azemi
Fares, a PhD student in the Maths Department, was formally awarded his PhD in Mathematics on the 31st March 2011. Fares' thesis was entitled 'A Pair of Explicitly Solvable Impulse Control Problems', and he was supervised by Prof. Mihail Zervos. Congratulations, Dr Al-Azemi!
Search Games Workshop at LSE| - 28th and 29th June 2011
Professor Steve Alpern recently organised LSE Mathematics' Annual Search Games Workshop for Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th June 2011. Full details here|.
Maths Department Manager's song for charity....
Department Manager David Scott's band The Phonic| have written and recorded a song for an album released by the charity Forever Searching|, who raise awareness about missing and abducted children. The song is called Birthday Girl, all proceeds go to the charity, and it can be found on iTunes here: http://itunes.apple.com/album/find-your-way-home/id439274882|
The Beauty of Mathematics - Martin Anthony
Professor Martin Anthony| helps to raise the profile of mathematics at LSE (and in Social Science) by writing in the Summer 2011 edition of LSE's alumni magazine Connect |on the subject of 'The Beauty of Mathematics'. You can read his article online here: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/alumni/LSEConnect/LC_summer_2011.aspx| (on page 19).
Welcome to Loraine
We're delighted to welcome Loraine Evans to the Maths Department as our new Research Administrator, taking over from Simon Jolly. Loraine has joined us from the London Business School.
Congratulations to Adam and Konrad
We are delighted to announce that Adam Ostaszewski| has just been promoted to Professor, and Konrad Swanepoel| to Reader. Both titles commence officially from 1st August, but nonetheless we would very much like to wish both Adam and Konrad our heartiest congratulations.
Congratulations to Wan Huang
Wan, a PhD student in the Maths Department, was formally awarded her PhD in Mathematics on the 31st January 2011. Wan's thesis was entitled 'Equilibrium Computation for Extensive Games', and she was supervised by Prof. Bernhard von Stengel. Congratulations, Dr Huang!
Congratulations to Zibo Xu!
Zibo, a PhD student in the Maths Department, was formally awarded his PhD in Mathematics on the 31st December 2010. Zibo was successfully examined for his PhD in early November 2010 and was jointly supervised by Dr Robert Simon and Dr Adam Ostaszewski. His thesis was entitled 'A Stochastic Ramsey Theorem'. Congratulations, Dr Xu!
Goodbye to Simon
The Mathematics Department is very sorry to be saying goodbye to our Research Administrator, Simon Jolly, after more than 5 years in the department, spanning two different roles. We wish him all the best in his new job at LSE, in the External Programme Office.
Advent Software Scholarship 2010/11
Congratulations to Charlene Mliswa, MSc Applicable Mathematics - Charlene is this year's recepient of the Advent Software Scholarship|.
Haya Freedman Prize 2009/10
Congratulations to Jacob Daniel Baron - winner of the Haya Freedman Prize for “Best Dissertation” 2009/10. To find out more about the Prize please click here|.
Nobel Prize for LSE Professor of Economics
LSE professor of Economics Christopher Pissarides was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences 2010. Click here to find out more...|
New Staff
The department is delighted to welcome a new lecturer, Dr Luitgard Veraart. Luitgard joins us at the beginning of September, and comes to us from the Institute for Stochastics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Maths Class Teacher gives talk at MSOR Network Conference
LSE Mathematics class teacher, Meena Kotecha, gave a presentation at the the Maths, Stats & OR Network fifth annual Learning and Teaching Conference at the University of Birmingham. To find out more, click here|.
One-day Colloquia in Combinatorics|
On May 20th 2010, the Department hosted a One-Day Colloquium in Combinatorics. As is becoming traditional, the meeting was organised jointly with Queen Mary, University of London|, who held a linked event on the previous day. This is now the fourth year that these joint colloquia have taken place in May and they continue to be popular with more than 90 people attending across the two days. There were twelve talks in total and a write-up of those that took place at LSE can be found here|.
2010 Conference on Search Games and Rendezvous
|July saw the Department host the LSE 2010 Conference on Search Games and Rendezvous, with participants from a number of different countries. The event, which was organised jointly with the Operational Research Group| and which received funding from STICERD|, was a great success with ten talks taking place over two days. A write-up of all the talks can be found here|.
Congratulations to Dr Anne Balthasar - Anne was formally awarded her PhD in Mathematics at a presentation ceremony on Thursday 15th July. Anne was successfully examined for her PhD in December 2009 and was supervised by Prof Bernhard von Stengel|. The Department would like to wish Anne all the best for the future.
Congratulations to Jackie Everid - winner of a Service Excellence Award
Jackie has just won one of LSE's prestigious Service Excellence Awards 2010 for her outstanding support and service to students and staff in the Maths Department. We can't think of a more deserving recipient! Well done Jackie.
The Mathematics of Machine Learning| - Podcast
Prof Martin Anthony has recently been interviewed by the LSE Research Channel as part of a series of podcasts highlighting the diverse range of research carried out at LSE. In the podast at the link above Prof Anthony discusses his field of research, machine learning, and explains what role mathematicians play in making computers less stupid.
Past News and Events
For information on past news and events| in the Mathematics Department, please click here| for our news archive|. Please note that some links may now be out of date as this page is simply a historical record and is not updated.
