Viva success

Nan Qi successfully defended her thesis on 19th February. Nan's research was on finite element-immersed boundary method and its application to mitral valves and the heart. She was supervised by Xiaoyu Luo.

Gabriel Tornetta successfully defended his thesis on 7th March. Gabriel's research was on bivariant Cuntz Semigroup. He was supervised by Joachim Zacharias.

Congratulations Qiqi and Gabriel!

Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today 2016

On 13th February, five Level 4 Mathematics students – Jacob Bennett-Woolf, Filip Brakl, Vitalijs Brejevs, Scott Dallas and Demetra Vasiliou – took part in Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today 2016 undergraduate conference held at University of Greenwich in London.

Jacob, Demetra and Vitalijs gave presentations based on their summer or Level 4 projects, with Vitalijs also in contention for the GCHQ prize awarded to the best presentation. The overall scope and standard of talks was impressive, introducing the participants to a wide array of mathematics at an accessible level, with the excellent keynote talk by bestselling author and category theorist Dr Eugenia Cheng concluded the conference on an exciting note. Though Vitalijs narrowly missed out on the prize, the conference still was a valuable experience for all five students, allowing establishing new connections with other Mathematics students and giving a glimpse into the world of academic conferences.

More information about the conference is available on their website.

First published: 30 March 2016

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