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Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

 

2025

Jason Miller elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Wendelin Werner elected as a honorary member of the Hungarian Academic of Sciences

Po-Ling Loh named as Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)

Rajan Shah named as Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)

2024

Senior Academic Promotions: Perla Sousi promoted to Professor of Probability (Grade 12), Varun Jog promoted to Professor of Information Theory and Statistics (Grade 11) and Qingyuan Zhao promoted to Professor of Statistics (Grade 11).

John Aston elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2024

Oscar Randal Williams elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2024

John Aston appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor  for Research from 1st September 2024

Jack Thorne elected to the Kuwait Professorship of Number Theory and Algebra from 1 January 2024

Oscar Randal-Williams elected to the Sadleirian Professorship of Pure Mathematics from 1 January 2024

 

2023

Yiannis Kontoyiannis elected to Fellowship in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Senior Academic Promotions:  Ailsa Keating, Kaisey Mandel and Dhruv Ranganathan on their promotion to Professor (Grade 11) and to Roland Bauerschmidt and Rajen Shah on their promotion to Professor (Grade 12)

Paul Minter appointed Clay Research Fellow from July 2023

Wendelin Werner, awarded Royal Society Research Professorship 

Ivan Smith elected  Fellow of the Royal Society

 

2022

 

 

2021

Richard Samworth on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

John Aston elected as the Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life

Holly Krieger named as a 2021–2022 fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute

2020

Jack Thorne elected as Fellow of the Royal Society

Senior Academic Promotions: Peter Varju and Oscar Randal-Williams promotion to Professor and to Roland Bauerschmidt promotion to Reader

Julia Wolf appointed  LMS-NZMS Forder Lecturer  2020

2019

Senior Promotions:  Jason Miller promotion to a Professorship and to Rajen Shah, Perla Sousi and Peter Varju on promotions to Readerships.

Professor Ray Lickorish one of the 2019 Class of Fellows announced by the AMS

Caucher Birkar Fellow of the Royal Society 

2018

Senior Academic Promotions: Jake Rasmussen and Jack Thorne promotion to the rank of Professor

Philip Dawid elected  Fellow of the Royal Society

Senior Academic Promotions: Oscar Randal-Williams and Henry Wilton promotion to Readership

2017

Mark Gross elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

Senior Academic Promotions: Richard Nickl promotion to the rank of Professor, to Tom Fisher on  promotion to Reader and Mike Tehranchi promotion to Senior Lecturer.

2016 - 2014

Peter Whittle, Emeritus Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research,elected Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the mathematics of operations research and statistics.

Senior Academic Promotions: Nathanael Berestycki and Caucher Birkar promotion to the rank of Professor.

John Aston and Richard Samworth elected as Fellows of the American Statistical Association.

DPMMS welcomes New Members Jonathan LukJack Thorne, and Henry Wilton

Richard Samworth, elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Senior Academic Promotions: Neshan Wickramasekera promotion to the rank of Professor. Professor Wickramasekera works in the fields of geometric measure theory and differential

Geoffrey Grimmett and Vladimir Markovic elected to Royal Society, elected Fellows of the Royal Society.

 

2013-2012

Senior academic promotions: Clement Mouhot and Richard Samworth, promoted to the rank of Professor.

New Faculty in DPMMS: Professors John Aston, Mark Gross, Vladimir Markovic, and Dr Oscar Randal-Williams.
 

Senior Academic Promotions:   Nathanaël Berestycki and Richard Nickl promoted to Reader, and Ivan Smith to Professor

Frank Kelly (DPMMS) and John Hinch (DAMTP) elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.
 

New faculty in DPMMS:  Prof. Danny Calegari, Dr A.Juhász, Dr V. Kargin, Dr J. Pridham and  Dr Bodhi Sen 

2010-2011

Béla Bollobás and Simon Tavaré elected FRS.
 

Wendelin Werner named Visiting Professor. Werner, who was a postdoc in DPMMS, earned a Fields medal in 2006 for groundbreaking work on conformal invariance in random planar processes. He will visit the department for periods over the next three years, starting in February 2011.