Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield

We had a Q+A with our new colleague Dr. Eleonora Di Valentino. Check it out:

Q+A: Dr Eleonora Di Valentino on cosmology Dr Eleonora Di Valentino joined the School of Mathematics and Statistics this October, on a five-year Dorothy Hodgkin fellowship. Her research is at the interface of theoretical and observational cosmology.

Congratulations to our colleague Prof. Robertus von Fay-Siebenburgen, who has been elected as a member of the Steering Committee of the Sun and Heliosphere Division of the International Astronomical Union.

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Congratulations to our colleagues Drs Gary Verth and Istvan Ballai of the Plasma Dynamics group for winning a Royal Society International Exchange award with the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics!

International Exchanges | Royal Society A scheme for scientists in the UK who want to stimulate new collaborations with leading scientists overseas through either a one-off visit or bilateral travel.

Congratulations to our colleague to Dr. Istvan Ballai who has been elected as President of the European Solar Physics Board (Division of the European Physical Society). Dr Ballai will hold the prestigious role for three years.

European Physical Society (EPS) European Physical Society home page

Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Robin Stephenson who won the Second Prize in this year's International Chopin Competition for Amateur Pianists!

Competition for Amateur Pianists – TIFC Competition for Amateur Pianists The 5th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Amateur Pianists, Warsaw 2021 List of pianists accepted for the Fifth International F. Chopin Competition for Amateur Pianists 1 Asano Toshiko (Japan) 2 Bayka Mustafa Saffet (Turkey) 3 Bedon Julien (France) 4 Berr...

Sheffield undergraduates win prizes for tackling challenging maths problems in global contest:

Sheffield undergraduates win prizes for tackling challenging maths problems in global contest Seven Sheffield students competed with almost 600 others from more than 100 different universities in the International Mathematics Competition for University Students.

Our new SIAM-IMA Student Chapter organized its very first conference! Check it out here:

Student group celebrating applied maths launches with successful conference The new SIAM-IMA Student Chapter is sponsored by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA).

Congratulations to SoMaS undergraduate Ben Andrews and his supervisor Dr. Jonathan Jordan on their article which just got published in the journal "Involve":
https://msp.org/involve/2021/14-3/p13.xhtml
Ben will start a PhD with Jonathan next Fall!

Involve, a Journal of Mathematics Vol. 14, No. 3, 2021 Volume 12 Issue 8, 1261–1439 Issue 7, 1081–1260 Issue 6, 901–1080 Issue 5, 721–899 Issue 4, 541–720 Issue 3, 361–539 Issue 2, 181–360 Issue 1, 1–180

We are very excited to introduce the Sheffield Student Chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)!

Check out https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/maths/siam-ima to find out about becoming a member and about the upcoming summer conference!

SIAM-IMA Student Chapter | Mathematics and Statistics | The University of Sheffield Welcome to the Sheffield Student Chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA).

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Robert Kurinczuk to the Number Theory group of SoMaS as he begins an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship. Check out the Q+A below to find more about Rob and his research.

Q+A: Dr Robert Kurinczuk on the Langlands programme This week we're delighted to welcome Dr Robert Kurinczuk to the University of Sheffield as he begins an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship on 'Integral Structures in the Langlands Programme'. Here he tells about his career so far and plans for the future.

Big congratulations to SoMaS PhD students Georgios Moulantzikos and Vinh Vu for their success in SIAM's "Financial Mathematics and Engineering Student Programming Competition".

Giorgios and Vihn formed one of the four SoMaS teams who took part in this competition (hats off to Dr. Dimitrios Roxanas!) and they succeeded in becoming on of the eight finalists! Wish them luck in the final, which is tomorrow afternoon!

SIAM Financial Mathematics & Engineering Student Programming Competition The main focus of quantitative and data science roles in the finance industry is to implement research in a real-world context. The ability to apply such research to real-world problems requires modern computational and data science skill sets. SIAM’s programing challenges provide the opportun...

The generalized Pareto distribution is widely used in engineering, environmental science and finance to model low probability events.

In a brand new paper, that is partially based on his thesis, former SoMaS MSc student James Sharpe together with Dr. Miguel Juarez studied the Pareto and related distributions using Bayesian and frequentist approaches.

Estimation of the Pareto and related distributions – A reference-intrinsic approach (2021). Estimation of the Pareto and related distributions – A reference-intrinsic approach. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods. Ahead of Print.