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Minhyong Kim to give Abel Lecture 2026

14 April, 2026Staff success

The Abel Prize Lectures are an annual tradition during the week-long celebration of the Abel Prize…

A photo of Minhyong who is looking up at the camera from the stairwell of the Bayes Centre. In the background is a white spiral staircase.

Applied category theory featured in Quanta Magazine

19 March, 2026Outreach Staff success Sustainability

John Baez, Maxwell Fellow in Public Engagement, and Tom Leinster, Professor of Category Theory,…

This image explores how AI can be for sustainability efforts. It was created by Dada Projects as part of the Visualising AI project launched by Google DeepMind.

£20 million investment in Quantum Software Lab

17 March, 2026Energy Staff success Industry and Impact

This UK Government funding will accelerate the development of quantum software.

created by Bakken & Baeck as part of the Visualising AI project launched by Google DeepMind.

Researchers tackling extreme weather risk meet with industry leaders

10 March, 2026AI Statistics Sustainability Industry and Impact

Last week, the School hosted an academic-industry event, 'Modelling the Unprecedented:…

Pete Rutherford from Aon giving a PowerPoint presentation

Torben Sell finalist for Inward Investment Impact Award 2026

02 March, 2026Energy Staff success Sustainability Industry and Impact

The academic-industry collaboration between Torben Sell and Aquallite Data Ltd. has been…

SKEA logo and award title text

Potential new MSc in Statistics with Artificial Intelligence

17 February, 2026AI Statistics

We would like to hear your views on a potential new postgraduate opportunity in Statistics with…

Students sitting in lecture theatre

Winners of fifth Edinburgh Undergraduate Operational Research Challenge announced

16 February, 2026Industry and Impact Optimization and OR Student success Undergraduate

The OR Challenge is jointly organised by the School of Mathematics in collaboration with HiGHS and…

A photo of the inning team and judges. They are standing in a line while holding up their certificates.

Health Data Hackathon with Public Health Scotland

05 February, 2026Health Industry and Impact Statistics

Yesterday we hosted a one-day Health Data Hackathon in collaboration with Public Health Scotland,…

Photo of a laptop screen in a lab. It is dark and displays graphs of health data.

Four SoM professors elected Fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences

29 January, 2026Staff success Industry and Impact Energy Optimization and OR Statistics Structure and Symmetry

Professors Miguel Anjos, Chris Dent, Minhyong Kim and Ruth King are amongst the inaugural cohort of…

Graphic saying "AcadMathSci appoints first cohort of Fellows"

EPSRC IAA Seed Funding success with ENODA

07 January, 2026Energy Industry and Impact Data and Decisions Statistics Sustainability

A new academic-industry project with Professor Miguel Anjos, Dr Zeynep Suvak, Dr Burak Buke, and…

ENODA team at AIMday