News and Events
Forthcoming events
Click here details of our current Seminars and Events including our Distinguished Colloquium.
Conference in honour of Nancy Nichols' 70th birthday
A two-day meeting in honour of Nancy Nichols' 70th birthday will be held at the University of Reading on 2-3 July 2012.
Bath/Brunel/Cardiff/Imperial/Oxford/Reading/UCL/Warwick
Numerical Analysis Postgraduate Seminar Day
Friday 30 March 2012
UCAS Visit Days to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Recent news
Mathematicians at the University of Reading are helping to develop a 'smart' power distribution system to prepare the street-level electricity grid for a low-carbon future.
Experts at the University's Centre for Mathematics of Human Behaviour are providing the analytics and modelling expertise behind a new £30m pilot project funded by Ofgem.
See full article at: "Thames Valley Vision" Low Carbon Network Fund Project
Poster prize
Congratulations to Bart Vorselaars, winner of the second prize for the best poster at this year's IOP Polymer Physics conference.
Front cover article
Bart Vorselaars and Mark Matsen's "hot article" was featured on the front cover of "Soft Matter". The paper considers diblock copolymers grafted to the surface of a spherical core. It reveals an array of interesting behaviors as the block copolymer pattern is forced to adapt to the finite surface area of the sphere. The work also presents an efficient algorithm for solving the diffusion equations.
Olga Taussky-Todd lecture
We are delighted to announce that Beatrice Pelloni has been selected to give the Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture at the 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) in Vancouver in 2011.
The Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture is one of the invited lectures at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, which is the pre-eminent international meeting of applied and industrial mathematicians, held every four years. This honour is conferred on a "woman who has made outstanding contributions in applied mathematics and/or scientic computation". The lecture is named in tribute to the memory of Olga Taussky-Todd, whose scientific legacy is in both theoretical and applied mathematics, and whose work exemplifies the qualities to be recognized.
Frontiers of Sciences Lectures at the Association of Science Education
Dr Sue Todd and Professors Peter Grindrod and Simon Chandler-Wilde gave Frontiers of Science lectures at the Association for Science Educations Annual Conference held in January at the University of Reading. This prestigious conference is for all involved in science education, including teachers, technicians, advisors, or those interested in science education, and was attended by over 3500 participants, bringing together leading players from the science education arena.
Sue's lecture 'Statistics in Clinical Trials' looked at where statistics is used in clinical trials programmes, from the design of individual studies and the valid interpretation of patient data, to ensuring the safe and ethical conduct of trials.
Peter's lecture 'Modelling the Digital Society and Digital Economy: Creating New Spaces in Which to Work and Play' looked at how modern advances in IT, fast communications, and the convergence of useable platforms are producing new spaces in which individuals can work, rest and play, and how innovations lead to an explosive take-up of services which radically disrupts and changes entire commercial sectors, social norms, and aspirations.
Simon's lecture 'Mathematics in the Sewers: Developments in Acoustic Inverse Problems' looked at how the important and growing application area in the analysis and design of methods for problems of remote detection and imaging is being used in the UK for acoustic remote inspection of the UK's ageing 300,000 km sewerage system.
Magnificent Maths and Stats Fun Day
The Department played host to teenagers from across the south in December 2010 in a bid to encourage them to study mathematics and statistics at a higher level.
Year 12 students from a range of schools used mathematics and statistics to solve a murder, predict epidemics, drill for oil and model new polymers as part of the Magnificent Maths and Stats event run by the Department in conjunction with the Student Recruitment and Outreach Office.
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