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Zhaoxi Zhang wins award from the Royal Statistical Society

18 July, 2025Statistics Student success

Zhaoxi Zhang, a PhD student at the School, has been announced as the winner of the Royal…

Zhaoxi Zhang receives the award at the Royal Statistical Society

Can maths help people access aid more quickly?

16 July, 2025Optimization and OR Staff success Sustainability

Dr Kit Searle was interviewed by the Edinburgh Impact team about his work with Médecins Sans…

Photo shows a row of temporary tents in an MSF aid facility, Monrovia

AI vs the AI expert

16 July, 2025AI Industry and Impact

Professor Sotirios Sabanis, Director of the Centre for Investing Innovation, responds to…

A photograph of Sotirios

IT Manager Steve Law retires after 36 years of service

16 July, 2025

Staff gathered in the common room to wish Steve all the best for his retirement as he concludes 36…

Stev Law and Head of School Bernd Schroers standing side-by-side in the maths common room. Steve is holding a large card, reading "Steve's Retirement!"

Chris Sangwin finalist for Innovate UK Academic of the Year 2025

15 July, 2025Staff success TEMSE

The Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership Awards celebrate the success of collaborations…

Graphic that reads 'Professor Chris Sangwin'

Ben Davison is invited speaker for ICM 2026

11 July, 2025Staff success Structure and Symmetry

Professor Davison has been invited to speak at the next International Congress of Mathematicians (…

A photo of Ben Davison - he is wearing a pink T-shirt and leaning against a wall. There is a small dog perched on the wall next to him. In the background is a beautiful sunset scene over a lake.

£2 million project to develop insurance for AI risks

11 July, 2025AI Staff success

Professor Lukasz Szpruch is the lead academic on a £2m UKRI Prosperity Partnership project to…

Automated guided carts at the port of Rotterdam transport large containers

David Jordan awarded 2025 LMS Berwick Prize

08 July, 2025Staff success Structure and Symmetry

Professor Jordan has been recognised by the London Mathematical Society for the foundational 2018…

David sits with his friend and colleague Adrien as they play with their daughters

Natalia Bochkina awarded a Simons Fellowship at the Isaac Newton Institute

30 June, 2025Staff success Statistics

Natalia Bochkina has been named as one of the recipients of the Simons Fellowships for 2025.

Group of students and staff members with Natalia stood at the front on the right

Large language models and data science workshop

24 June, 2025AI Statistics

Join Ozan Evkaya, GAIL Fellow and Lecturer in Statistics, on Friday June 27 from 3pm - 4.30pm.…

An artist’s illustration of artificial intelligence (AI). This illustration depicts language models which generate text. It was created by Wes Cockx as part of the Visualising AI project launched by Google DeepMind.