2003

	15 November 2002
	Professor Sandy Green At a meeting of the London Mathematical Society in Oxford, Professor Sandy Green was presented with the De Morgan Medal of the Society. The award was made in 2001 for his fundamental contributions to group representation theory. The accompanying citation can be seen here. Sandy was appointed professor at the Warwick Mathematics Department's foundation in 1965 and retired in 1991. He is an emeritus professor of the Department.

	25 September 2002
	New building The foundations of the new building for the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics have recently been laid. The £15.6M project is currently expected to be built by early October 2003, then furnished and occupied by late November. Architect's impressions and other pictures of the building site can be found here.

	11 July 2002
	Congratulations to all this year's finalists on their outstanding performances. A strawberry tea was held in the Mathematics Institute Common Room to celebrate and to give out the Mathematics prizes. Although we can only give a small number of prizes many students achieved extremely high standards. This year's results were very strong with over 42% of our finalists getting a First and over two-thirds getting a First or 2(i). There was a continued growth in our 4-year MMath degree which is designed for those who want to take mathematics further. This year there were 47 graduates (of whom 72% got a First) but next year the number will be nearer 70. Most of this year's graduating class will go on to a very broad range of careers: for example in science, education, business, finance, actuarial science and accountancy. A number will go on to do mathematical research here and at other universities in the UK and abroad. Mathematics at Warwick has one of the strongest records in term of job placements for its graduates and this year's class continues this.

	12 June 2002
	Professor Miles Reid Professor Miles Reid, of the Department of Mathematics, has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society. Distinguished for his contributions to algebraic geometry, in which he has been an influential figure worldwide, his early work advanced the theory of surfaces of general type. Together with Mori, he laid the foundations for the theory of minimal models of threefolds and the classification of higher dimensional varieties. He has developed important new relations between the geometry of algebraic varieties and commutative ring theory, with implications both for representation theory and theoretical physics. Despite this accolade, Professor Reid says that his family has no real background in science: "we had a Chemistry set for Christmas when I was about nine and my older brother taught me how to make and set off various home-made explosives!"