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Richard Samworth receives the Guy medal in bronze from the Royal Statistical Society
The award is with respect to his work on theoretical, methodological, and computational aspects of non-parametric statistics. The award is one of the society's most prestigious honours and is typically given to individuals under 35. More details here.

Tim Gowers awarded the 2011 Stefan Banach medal
The medal, awarded by the Polish Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in mathematical sciences, was set up in 1992 to honour the centenary of the great Polish mathematician. More details here.

DPMMS welcomes new faculty members!
Prof. Danny Calegari's prolific work is at the interface between geometry, dynamics and topology.
Dr. A. Juhász, previously a Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the department, has been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. His research focuses on low-dimensional topology.
Dr. V. Kargin is a temporary lecturer in the Statistical Laboratory. His research interests are the field of random matrices, at the intersection between probability theory, analysis and theoretical physics.
Dr. J. Pridham is an EPSRC Career acceleration fellow, and works in algebraic geometry.
Dr. Bodhi Sen is a new lecturer in the Statistical Laboratory, his research is in nonparametric statistics and applications in astronomy and high-energy physics.
Prof. John Toland FRS has been appointed director of the Newton Institute and NM Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences.

A new year for Part III
In October 2011, 233 students arrived at Cambridge for Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. Part III is the world's most successful one-year master's program in the mathematical sciences. Students can choose from more than 75 advanced lecture courses across the whole range of pure and applied mathematics, statistics, and mathematical physics.
Of this year's Part III students, 88 have been undergraduate students at Cambridge, while 145 have come to Cambridge from all over the world for Part III. Cambridge students are awarded the Master of Mathematics (M Math) degree after their four-year degree, while students from outside Cambridge who do Part III receive the Master of Advanced Study (MASt). Many Part III students go on to the world's leading graduate schools, or directly into industry.

Birational geometry day.
The meeting, organised by Caucher Birkar, will take place on 12 October 2011. More details.

CSI Special One-Day Meeting.
The Cambridge Statistics Initiative is holding a special One-Day meeting on 26 September 2011, in conjuction with the Design and Analysis of Experiments programme at the Newton Institute. More details.

Béla Bollobás and Simon Tavaré elected FRS.
The Royal Society has announced its 2011 list of new fellows. Bollobás is a world leader in combinatorics, graph theory and percolation; Tavaré is a pioneer in the field of stochastic computations for cancer genomics. Other mathematicians named this year include Steffen Lauritzen and Werner Nahm, and Mikhail Gromov in the foreign category. See the list and announcement here.

Richard Samworth awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2011-2012 .
These prestigious fellowships allow the holder to be relieved from teaching and administrative duties. Dr. Samworth's reasearch focuses on problems in high-dimensional and nonparametric statistics.

First Peter Whittle Colloquium to be held on April 26, 2011.
The first colloquium is entitled An Afternoon of Mathematics and Biology. The meeting is funded by the Peter Whittle Fund, which was established in the University of Cambridge through one of Peter's former students and generous corporate funding.

Luis Caffarelli to deliver 2011 Rouse Ball lecture.
Cafarelli is one of the world's leading expert in free boundary problems and nonlinear partial differential equations. Details of his talk available here.

Cambridge probability awarded an EPSRC Programme grant.
The grant, of around £1.65M, will fund the programme New Frontiers in Random Geometry (RaG), beginning in 2011. The thrust of RaG is to explore geometrical aspects of random processes, with emphasis on processes of fragmentation, embedding, and aggregation. It will fund an extensive postdoctoral and visitor programme over the next six years. More info here.

A Conference on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, May 4-6, 2011.
The conference, organized by John Coates and Tim Dokchitser, will take place in DPMMS to mark the 50th anniversary of the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture in Number theory. It will feature an impressive list of speakers that will be of interest well beyond number theory.

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.

Alex Lubotzky to deliver 2011 Mordell lecture.
Lubotzky is a leader in the theory of infinite groups, with connections to geometry and combinatorics. Details for the lecture.

Tim Gowers wins Euler Book prize
In January 2011, Tim Gowers won the Euler Book Prize for The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Princeton, 2008). The prize is awarded annually by the Mathematical Association of America to an outstanding book in mathematics that is likely to improve the public view of the field. More info here.

LMS Invited Lecturer 2011, Emmanuel Candes
Emmanuel Candes is an expert in compressed sensing, an area touching upon many fields in pure and applied mathematics, especially statsitics and analysis. He will give the 2011 LMS invited lecture in Cambridge, March 21-25, 2011. More info.

Cambridge Centre for Analysis (CCA), Ph.D. degrees
The pioneering Cambridge Centre for Analysis opened its door in October 2010 to 14 new Ph.D. students, who will be exposed to a wide range of interdisciplinary aspects of modern mathematical analysis. More info.

Caucher Birkar awarded prestigous prizes
Dr. Birkar was awarded the 2010 Prix de la Fondation des Sciences Mathématiques de Paris as well as the 2010 Philip Leverhulme prize. These prizes are intended for "outstanding scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study, recognised at an international level, and where the expectation is that their greatest achievement is yet to come."

Part III now results in a degree
Part III is a one-year Masters level course taken by over 200 students every year from around the world. The course is delivered since at least 1883 in one form or another. The new degree, Master of Advanced Studies, replaces the Certificate of Advanced Studies, delivered since 1980. More info.

Forthcoming Special Lectures

Rouse Ball lecture 2011 Luis Cafarelli: April 28, 2011. Details here.

Mordell Lecture 2011 Alex Lubotzky: April 28, 2011. Details here.

LMS Invited Lecturer 2011 Emmanuel Candes March 21-25, 2011, 5pm in MR2.

Previous special lectures and information about future lectures.

Forthcoming Kuwait Fund Lectures

There are no Kuwait Fund Lectures scheduled for the immediate future.

Kuwait Fund Lectures, past present and future.

Forthcoming Meetings and Conferences

The Conference on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, organized by John Coates and Tim Dokchitser, will take place on May 4-6, 2011 in DPMMS.

Previous conferences in DPMMS.
Information on Newton Institute programmes.

CMS Colloquia

From time to time members of DPMMS and DAMTP describe their work to a general mathematical audience in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Click here (Faculty page) or here (talks.cam page) for up to date information.

DPMMS Colloquia

This Series meets in the weeks when there is not a CMS or Newton Institute Colloquia, and typically occupies the same time slot.

Details on talks.cam.