Subjects taught at LSE | Services and divisions (administration)

 

All research groups | Research subject areas

 
 
A-Z site index | Contact | Maps | Jobs|
Home > Department of Mathematics

Department of Mathematics

Home
Department of Mathematics
How to contact us

Department of Mathematics
Columbia House
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE, UK

 

Email: maths.info@lse.ac.uk|
Tel: +44(0)207 955 7732/7925
Fax: +44(0)207 955 6877

 

Click here| for information on how to get to LSE using public transport and maps of the campus

 

 

 
The LSE Mathematics Department is internationally recognised for its teaching and research. Located within a world-class social science institution, the department aims to be a leading centre for Mathematics in the Social Sciences.
combinatorics image
The research strengths of the Department are in Discrete Mathematics, Financial Mathematics, Game Theory and applications of Mathematics to the Social Sciences. You can find out more about our research| by clicking here|.
 
Recent research publications

Recent Publications|

A list of recent research publications of the staff (and PhD students) of the Mathematics Department can be found on our Publications| page.

 
LSE OLd Building abstract photo

Research Seminars|

The department hosts regular well-attended research seminars |during term-time covering topics in all our main research areas.

 
LSE campus

The Mathematics Department offers five degree programmes:

 
Students studying

Current Students|

You can find information about our course modules, including links to the course materials hosted on Moodle, and lecturers' and class teachers' office hours| by clicking here|.

 
LSE_QM_logos

Two One-Day Colloquia in Combinatorics 2013|

The event, held across two days, with six speakers presenting at Queen Mary Univeristy of London on 15 May and a further six speakers presenting on 16 May at LSE, was attended by over 90 delegates; we all agreed it was a great success and already looking forward to next year's event.  Further event details can be found here|.

 
Roth

ESRC Game Theory Workshop 2013|

On 6th February 2013, the Mathematics Department hosted a workshop entitled "Matching Under Preferences".  The highlight of the workshop was a popular talk by Alvin Roth (Nobel Prize winner 2012): "Who Gets What? The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design".

Further details can be found here|.

 
MSc Careers Networking Event Thursday - March 2013
 The Department successfully held an alumni panel and careers networking event for current MSc students on 14th March 2013.
London-Mathematical-Finance-logo

London Mathematical Finance Seminar Series gets under way - 25 October 2012|

This new initiative is a joint seminar series organised by a partnership of the matematical finance groups of several London-based universities. The seminar series aims to bring the mathematical finance community in London closer together and provides a platform where both academics and practitioners are invited to discuss recent advances in the field. All are welcome to attend.

Full details of the seminar series can be found here|. The local organisers for the seminar series are Dr Luitgard Veraart| in the Department of Mathematics and Dr Hao Xing| in the Department of Statisti

 
Hugo_Steinhaus113x148

Mini-Conference on Infinite Combinatorics - 25 July 2012|

On 25th July 2012, the Mathematics Department hosted a Mini-Conference on Infinite Combinatorics, with talks from N.H. Bingham, I. Leader, A. Ostaszewski, S. Solecki, D. Strauss.

For more details, please click here|

 
Green-Impact-Excellence 
Maths Department achieves Gold Excellence in Green Impact
|We're delighted to announce that the Mathematics Department achieved a Gold Excellence Award for its contribution to 'greening' LSE at the Green Impact Awards 2013 at LSE. Of particular note is the current project to introduce sustainability into the curriculum, which has secured funding from LSE's Sustainable Projects Funds, and which will focus on finding connections between concepts in sustainability and the mathematics being taught in courses MA100 and MA107. The department also won an award for its recycling (100% perfectly sorted in a spot-check), and Department Manager David Scott was given a special award for 'outstanding contribution to sustainability at LSE'. Click here for more|. 
 
Maths Department hosts visit from Bushey Meads School
On 30th April, LSE's Mathematics Department hosted a visit from some budding young mathematicians from Bushey Meads School (and their mathematics teacher, former LSE Maths student Suresh Varsani). You can read a write-up of the day on the Bushey Meads website, here|.
linear-algebra-book-62x86
Review of new Algebra 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'|. A recent review| suggests that the book, "covers the subject more thoroughly than its competitors do.", and goes on to say that, "Much more so than the other books I’ve seen lately, this book succeeds in presenting the subject properly to fellow travelers (e.g. economists!) to the extent this is reasonable, and doesn’t skimp on actual mathematics".
 
Prof Bernhard von Stengel
Prof Bernhard von Stengel| from the LSE Department of Mathematics recently chaired one of the main plenary events of the 4th Congress of the Game Theory Society| (GAMES 2012), July 22-26 in Istanbul, featuring John Nash. Further details of this event can be found on our news page|..
 
Congratulations to Derek

Derek Wan has been awarded his PhD in Mathematics. For details of his thesis titles, supervisors, and the evergrowing list of PhD alumni of the department, please view our PhD "Roll of Honour|". Congratulations Dr Wan!

Haya Freedman Prize 2011/12|

Congratulations to Samuel Clowes Huneke - winner of the Haya Freedman Prize for "Best Dissertation" 2011/12. To find out more about the Prize please click here|.

Congratulations to Cyril Offord Prizewinner for 2012|
Congratulations to Joshua Bernstein, winner of the Cyril Offord Prize| for outstanding performance in mathematics for 2011/12. More details here|

Prof Steve Alpern's Visiting Professor appointment
We are very happy to welcome Professor Steve Alpern back to the Department as a Visiting Professor.

Congratulations to  our teaching prize winners
Our congratulations go to Mr Ahmad Abu-Khazneh, Dr Ioannis Kouletsis, and Dr Georgios Zouros on winning three of the School's Graduate and Guest Teacher prizes 2012. 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 during this year

Welcome to new staff
The Maths Department is delighted to welcome several new colleagues. Dr Marie Frentz joined us at the beginning of August as Research Officer working with Dr Amol Sasane. And in September we were joined by a new lecturer, Dr Ron Peretz, and a new Course Tutor, Dr Ioannis Kouletsis. Welcome to all of them

 

 

Copyright © LSE 2012 | Page updated 17 May 2013
Comment on this page | Freedom of information | About this site | Social media LSE Social media listings page

Use of this website is subject to, and implies acceptance of, its Terms of use (including Copyright and intellectual property, Privacy and data protection and Accessibility). The London School of Economics and Political Science is a School of the University of London. It is a charity and is incorporated in England as a company limited by guarantee under the Companies Acts (Reg no. 70527).The registered office address of the School is: The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK; Tel: +44 (0)20 7405 7686