2010	Cyril Offord Prize 2009/10 \|Congratulations to Mei Lien Chew on winning the Cyril Offord Prize\| for outstanding performance in mathematics for 2009/10 on the BSc Mathematics and Economics. Mei Lien achieved an average of over 87% across the 12 units of courses she studied, with particularly noticeable scores such as 91% in MA310, 96% in MA203 and 95% in MA201, not to mention 99% for MA100 and 100% for ST102 in her first year with us. Congratulations to our teaching prize winners. Our congratulations go to Dr Nicholas Cron, Mr Derek Wan and, for a fifth year in a row, to Dr Ioannis Kouletsis on winning three of the School's Graduate and Guest Teacher prizes 2010. These are awarded annually by LSE's Teaching and Learning Centre based on a number of factors, including the termly surveys of students' opinions of class teaching. Each of the three achieved excellent scores and received great student feedback. We would like to thank all our class teachers for their excellent work over the last year. LSE Maths goes green to win Gold The LSE Mathematics Department has been awarded a Gold Standard in LSE's Green Impact\| project (part of the DEFRA-funded 'Degrees Cooler Programme\|'). 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. Goodbye to Amol: we are sorry to announce that Amol Sasane has left the Mathematics Department, to join his family in Sweden. He will be greatly missed by all of us, and we wish him well in his new post.
2009	Congratulations to Tom Bates and Preeyesh Bhadresha - joint winners of the Haya Freedman Prize \|for "Best Dissertations" in 2008/09. Cyril Offord Prize 2008-9 The Offord Prize for 2008-9 was awarded to Stephen Almond for his outstanding achievements on the BSc Business Mathematics and Statistics. To find out more, please click here\|. Congratulations to Teaching Prize Winners Our congratulations go to David Ferguson, Ioannis Kouletsis, and Julian Merschen on winning three of the School's Graduate and Guest Teacher Prizes 2009. These are awarded annually by LSE's Teaching and Learning Committee based on a number of factors, including the termly surveys of students' opinions of class teaching. Each of the three achieved excellent scores and received great student feedback. We would like to thank all our class teachers for their excellent work over the last year. New staff! The Department is delighted to welcome two new lecturers, and a new member of administrative staff. Dr Albina Danilova joined us in July, and Dr Konrad Swanepoel starts with us on 1st September. In addition we welcome a new MSc Administrator, Rebecca Batey, who also starts with us on 1st September. New Book by Amol Sasane We are pleased to announce the publication of Amol Sasane's book 'Algebras of Holomorphic Functions and Control Theory'. The book is an undergraduate-level text, which illustrates the the role of algebras of holomorphic functions in the solution of an important engineering problem: the stabilization of a linear control system. Its concise and self-contained treatment avoids the use of higher mathematics and forms a bridge to more advanced treatments. It is published by Dover Publications and further information can be found on their website\|. Congratulations to Viresh Patel Viresh was successfully examined for his PhD in May. Viresh was jointly supervised by Graham Brightwell\| and Jan van den Heuvel\|. One day Colloquium in Combinatorics On Thursday 21st May the LSE Mathematics Department hosted its third one-day colloquium in combinatorics. This followed a similar event held on the previous day at Queen Mary. As in previous years the colloquium was a great success attracting around 90 participants from all over the UK, around a third of whom were PhD students. There were six talks at LSE. Peter Keevash (Queen Mary) explained some of his impressive recent work on a class of processes for generating graphs without a given subgraph, improving the lower bounds on some Ramsey and Turan numbers. Stefanie Gerke (Royal Holloway) gave an entertaining account of her work on thresholds for connectivity in random intersection graphs, with applications to the problem of distributing secure keys in networks. Angelika Steger (ETH Zurich) spoke about her mathematical analysis of a recent model for bursts of neuron firing in the brain, explaining how the rigorous analysis explained some (but not all) of the curious behaviour observed in computer simulations. Leslie Goldberg (Liverpool) spoke about recent work on the complexity of evaluating partition functions: she was able to describe exactly what types of weighted substructures of a large structure are computationally easy to count. Rahul Savani (Warwick), a former student in the Department, explained how two game-theoretic problems related to connectivity in graphs are equivalent, and related to the structure of the graph. Finally, Jaroslav Nešetřil (Prague) gave the annual Norman Biggs lecture: he spoke about graph-theoretic problems stemming from approaching the subject from the point of view of category theory, and described some of the extraordinarily rich structure of the class of directed graphs with the homomorphism relations. You can find further details of the talks given at both LSE and Queen Mary, including titles and abstracts, by clicking here\|. LSE Mathematics launches a new BSc in Mathematics with Economics Find out more about the new degree, which will start in October 2010, by clicking here\|. New book by Norman Biggs We are pleased to announce the recent publication of Norman Biggs' new book 'Codes: An Introduction to Information Communication and Cryptography'. The book is an integrated introduction to the mathematics of coding and it has been described as 'an undergraduate textbook that is a pleasure to read\|'. It is published by Springer and more information can be found on their website\|.
2008	Congratulations to Peter Allen - Peter has been awarded a share of the LSE Robert McKenzie Prize 2007/8 for his PhD in Mathematics. This prize is awarded each year by the School in recognition of outstanding academic performance. Commiserations and congratulations to LSE's University Challenge team. Commiserations to the team, which included the Mathematics Department's Marianne Fairthorne, on losing narrowly to Manchester University in the quarter-finals of this year's University Challenge, but congratulations too on getting to the last eight. Congratulations Ioanna Katrantzi - Operational Research student Ioanna was successfully examined for her PhD on Friday 21st November 2008. Although a student in OR, Ioanna began her PhD in the Mathematics Department and was supervised by Professor Steve Alpern\| throughout her studies. Congratulations to Marta Casetti - Marta won the Haya Freedman Prize\| for 'Best Dissertation' 2007/8. LSE Mathematics hosts Seventh International Workshop in Search Games and Rendezvous\| Cyril Offord Prize - The Offord Prize for 2008 was awarded jointly to Sakhee Joisher and Neelan Santhirarajah for their outstanding achievements on the BSc Mathematics and Economics. Click here for more\|. Mathematics Department Class Teachers win LSE Teaching Prizes: Ioanna Katrantzi, Ioannis Kouletsis and Raminder Ruprai were all recently awarded teaching prizes. \| Congratulations to Tom Bates - Tom, an applicant to the MSc in Applicable Mathematics to start 2008, is the first recipient of the Advent Software Scholarship\|. Welcome to new staff - Two new members of academic staff will be joining the Department in September. Professor Olivier Gossner joins us half-time from Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques\|, and Dr Arne Lokka comes to us from the Mathematics Department at King's College London\|. PhD successes - our congratulations go to PhD students Peter Allen, Luis Cereceda and part-time PhD Snezana Pejic who were all successfully examined for their PhDs this year. Peter was supervised by Graham Brightwell\|; Luis and Snezana were supervised by Jan van den Heuvel\|. Educational Research Grant for LSE Mathematicians - A team from the Mathematics department has been successful in attracting research funding from the University of London Centre for Distance Education. Click here for more\|. Congratulations to Malwina Luczak - she has just been promoted to Reader.
October 2007	Congratulations to Justas Bugnevicius -Justas won the Haya Freedman Prize\| for 'Best Dissertation' 2006/7.
September 2007	Mathematics Department Class Teachers win LSE Teaching Prizes: Peter Allen, Ioannis Kouletsis and Raminder Ruprai were all recently awarded teaching prizes. \| Amol Sasane wins Teaching Prize. Congratulations to Amol, a lecturer in the Maths Department, who has just won a Major Review Teaching Prize at LSE. These prizes are awarded for outstanding teaching performance above and beyond that required to pass Major Review.
June 2007	New photos online - photographs from the recent Alumni Evening\|, and from the recent events honouring Norman Biggs\|, are now available online. Welcome to new lecturer - we are delighted to welcome Dr Pavel Gapeev to the Mathematics Department as a lecturer from September 2007. Pavel comes to us from the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics \|in Berlin. Congratulations to Jan van den Heuvel and Adam Ostaszewski. Jan has just been promoted to Professor, and Adam has just been promoted to Reader. London Taught Course Centre for PhD students in the Mathematical Sciences: EPSRC has approved funding for a bid from a consortium of institutions in the London region for "pump-priming" funds of 400K to establish a Taught Course Centre in London. Click for more... \|
January 2007	Mathematics Professor becomes best-selling author! Steve Alpern \|was one of the contributors featured in the recent number one best-selling book, "Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze", (on page 203, to be specific). He answered a question on how two people lost in a large supermarket might best find each other again (an example of a problem Steve has looked into on a number of occasions in his research on Rendezvous Theory).
December 2006	Photos from the 2006 December Graduation now available online.\| LSE Mathematician, Malwina Luczak, wins Humboldt Fellowship. Congratulations to Dr Luczak, who has been awarded a prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship... click here for more\|.
September 2006	Congratulations to Mathematics Department Class Teacher Prize winners 2006: \|Luis Cereceda, Ioannis Kouletsis and James Ward.\| Congratulations to student prizewinners! Sayeed Zaman (BSc Business Mathematics and Statistics) has won the Cyril Offord Prize\|, and from the MSc Applicable Mathematics, Zibo Xu has won both the LSE Robert McKenzie Prize and the University of London Lionel Cooper Prize, whilst Julian Merschen has won the Haya Freedman Prize\| for 2005/6. Appointment of New Chair in Financial Maths - We're pleased to announce that Mihail Zervos\| has been appointed to the new Chair in Financial Mathematics. The post is part of an exciting strategic initiative by the School to extend the research and teaching activities of the Mathematics department in the area of financial mathematics. Welcome to (more) new staff - the Mathematics Department would like to welcome two new members of academic staff, who joined us in September: Dr Tugkan Batu \|and Dr Jozef Skokan\|.
June 2006	Congratulations Dr Rahul - Maths PhD student Rahul Savani \|was successfully examined for his PhD in June. Rahul's supervisor was Professor Bernhard von Stengel \|. Grant Success - Amol Sasane \|has just been awarded a Nuffield Newly Appointed Lecturers Scheme Grant \|of £5,000 to pursue his research on 'State Construction for Partial Differential Equations'
May 2006	Congratulations to Bernhard von Stengel\| - Bernhard has just been promoted to Professor of Mathematics. More congratulations! Rahul Savani\| has just been awarded an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Computer Science. The fellowships, which last three years, are awarded to enable talented young researchers to establish an independent research career directly or shortly after completing their PhD. More information can be found here\|. Rahul will be based at the University of Warwick\|, and plans to visit ETH\| Zurich \|and McGill University\|.
Mar 2006	MSc in Applicable Mathematics at LSE - New page of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) now online\|
Feb 2006	Congratulations Dr Nic - Maths PhD student Nicholas Georgiou\| was successfully examined for his PhD on Friday 27th January. Nic's thesis, which will appear soon in the CDAM Research Report Series\|, was entitled 'Random Structures for Partially Ordered Sets'. Nic's supervisor was Professor Graham Brightwell\|.
Dec 2005	A selection of photographs from the Graduation and Leaver's Parties in July and December 2005 are now available online.\| Congratulations to Iain Morrow, winner of the University of London Lionel Cooper Prize for Mathematics.\| Congratulations to Gabriel Rosenberg, inaugural winner of the Haya Freedman Prize at LSE.\|
Nov 2005	The Haya Freedman Prize, for Best Dissertation on the MSc Applicable Mathematics, has been established. Click here for details.\|
Sept 2005	In memory of Haya Freedman:
August 2005	Congratulations to Shahin Namati-Nasab, prizewinner in the Mathematics Department.\| Congratulations to Mathematics Department Occasional Teacher Prize winners 2005: Mark Baltovic, David Cartwright and Luis Cereceda.\|
July 2005	Sponsor Me! - Our Departmental Manager, David Scott, is taking part in a series of events for charity and is seeking some sponsorship. Click here for more details...\|
June 2005	Two new courses for the MSc Applicable Mathematics in 2005/6 - The Department will have extra options on its MSc in the coming year, with two new courses being introduced: MA412 Functional Analysis and its Applications and MA413 Games of Incomplete Information. For more information on the MSc, please click here\|.
May 2005	Congratulations to Maths PhD students Ben Veal & Rahul Savani on winning the Penn-Lehman Automated Trading Competition - For more details, click here.\| Review of the recent CDAM Mini-Symposium on Games and Dynamics\|
April 2005	Congratulations to Malwina Luczak - Malwina has been awarded a grant of £5,000 by The Nuffield Foundation\|, as one of their 'Awards to Newly Appointed Lecturers in Science, Engineering and Mathematics 2005\|'. She will be working on 'Asymptotic behaviour of complex random systems and phase transitions'. Welcome to new staff - Simon Jolly has joined the Mathematics Department as our new Graduate Course Administrator. The Mathematics Department's Annual Report for 2004 is now available online\|. 21st April - Mini-Symposium on Games and Dynamics at LSE. The Centre for Discrete and Applicable Mathematics is hosting this one-day event from 10.00 - 17.30 in room A379. Full details of speakers, timings, abstracts and papers can be found at: http://www.cdam.lse.ac.uk/Seminar/minisymposium.html\| Maths Alumni Event! - Wednesday 27th April, 6pm - 8.30pm. If you are a former student of the Mathematics Department, please do come along. Pass it on to any other former LSE Maths students you are in contact with. More details are available here....\|
March 2005	Congratulations to Martin Anthony\| - Martin has just been promoted to Professor of Mathematics.
Jan 2005	Congratulations to Maths PhD students Ben Veal, Rahul Savani and Raju Chinthalapati, runners up in the December 2004 Penn-Lehman Automated Trading Project Competition. They were given 'Honorable Mention' for their 'spirited submission'. It was noted that their 'strategy also achieved perfect liquidation and positive Sharpe Ratio'. Well done Ben, Rahul and Raju.
Dec 2004	Congratulations to Arndt von Schemde on being awarded his PhD in Mathematics - Arndt was supervised by Bernhard von Stengel\|, and his thesis for examination was entitled 'A Geometric-Combinatorial Approach to Index and Stability in Bimatrix Games'. This is now available as a CDAM Research Report\| (LSE-CDAM-2004-18). Well done Dr von Schemde! A selection of photographs from the Graduation Party in July 2004 are now available online.\|

August 2004

Welcome to new staff - the Maths Department welcomes two new lecturers: Dr Robert Simon and Dr Amol Sasane.|

Congratulations to Pavitra Kumar and Peter Chapman, prizewinners in the Mathematics Department.|

Congratulations to Mathematics Department Occasional Teacher Prize winners 2004: Gillian Colkin, James Spelling and James Ward.|

March 2004

The Mathematics Department's Annual Report for 2003 is now available online|.

Welcome to new staff - The Maths Department welcomes Iain Baxter as our new Graduate Course Administrator in the Maths Office.

Jan 2004
EU Sixth Framework Grant Success for Mathematics and Statistics Martin Anthony (Mathematics and Centre for Discrete and Applicable Mathematics) and Henry Wynn (Statistics and CDAM) are the LSE partners on a newly-announced Network of Excellence funded by the EU Sixth Framework Programme. Click here for more information|.

Sept 2003

In September, Dr Bernhard von Stengel, (LSE Reader in Mathematics) and his PhD student Rahul Savani each gave successful talks at Cowles Foundation Workshop on Complexity in Economic Theory at Yale University, New Haven. For more details see: http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/conferences/econtheory03/|

All change in the Department of Mathematics: new faces, some goodbyes, and a new degree|.

August 2003

Congratulations to Noor Drummond, Marios Kalotychos, Pavitra Kumar, Binyamin Radomsky and Kanishk Sarin, prize winners in the Mathematics Department. |

Congratulations to Mathematics Department Occasional Teacher Prize winners 2003: Mark Baltovic, Rahul Savani and Tony Whelan.|

July 2003: At the end of July, Dr Bernhard von Stengel, (LSE Reader in Mathematics), organised the Stony Brook Game Theory Conference in New York. LSE Maths PhD students Arndt von Schemde and Rahul Savani also gave successful talks at the event. Click here for more details|.

June 2003: New MSc course: The Department of Mathematics will launch an MSc in Applicable Mathematics, with the first intake of students to arrive in September 2004|.

March 2003

Congratulations to Philipp Reinfeld, who has just been awarded his PhD in Mathematics. Well done, Dr Philipp!

The Mathematics Department's Annual Report for 2002 is now available online|.

Dec 2002

12th December - Mathematics and Statistics Departments' Christmas Party for undergraduates in the two departments. This will take place in the Underground Bar| at 12.00.

Nov 2002

28th November - Maths & Stats Society Event - A talk from MLP at 6pm in room S78 . More details here|.

28th November - Orientation Seminar for Maths & Econ 1st year students - how to improve your applications for internships and summer work. More details are available here|.

21st November - Two former BMS students will be speaking at the Orientation Seminar for BMS 1st year students on Thursday 21st. More details are available here|.

Oct 2002

Congratulations to Li Shan Shi, Cassandra Hannibal and Gabriel Dauvin, prize winners in the Mathematics Department|

Maple Tutorial available on-line |

August 2002: A selection of photos from the 2002 Leaver's Party and Graduation Party now online...|

June 2002

LSE Department of Mathematics has an EPSRC-funded PhD studentship available|.

May 2002: Obituary of Professor W T Tutte in the Independent|, by Professor Norman Biggs

March 2002:

TQAC| Review of Mathematics - Friday 15th March
The Teaching Quality Assurance Committee| will be conducting a review of educational provision in the Mathematics Department on Friday 15th March in room B813. The Review team will be meeting with undergraduate students from the Maths Econ and BMS degrees at 2pm. This is your opportunity to express your views on the teaching and facilities you receive. Refreshments will be provided.

February 2002:

Maths staff make LSE Winter School "Brilliant, because it has increased my level of interest and enjoyment in mathematics". See LSE News & Views from 4th February| for more info...

Find a Study Room: A new service available to students through LSE for YOU|.

Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Program: A search for the most accomplished 100 2nd year students|

January 2002:

Joan Davies, lecturer in the Maths Department, has had her new book (and course text for MA100|) 'Calculus' published. Details can be found here|.

September 2001:

Congratulations to the Kevin Sheedy and Luke Thomas, prize winners in the Mathematics Department|

July 2001: A selection of photos from the 2001 graduation party now available to view...|

June 2001: The Cyril Offord Prize, in memory of the first LSE Professor of Mathematics, has been established. Click here for details.|

February 2001:

On Tuesday 20th Feb there will be an informal careers talk for 1st year BMS students from a graduate of the BMS degree now working as an Actuary for Ernst & Young. This will be at 1pm in room S221.

There will be a Careers Meeting, with speakers from LSE Careers Service| and KPMG|, for 2nd year BMS and Maths & Econ students on Weds 14th Feb at 11.00 in room A85.

October 2000 - Maths Department Winner of the ESRC Essay Competition|

September 2000 - Obituary of Professor John C. Harsanyi by Bernhard von Stengel|

June 2000 - Excellent Education in Mathematics and Statistics|
The full report on the Subject Review of Mathematics and Statistics at the LSE by the QAA has now been published.