8 November 2004	Top
Vladimir Markovic and Matt Keeling win Philip Leverhulme Prizes Vladimir Markovic has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2004 for his work on geometry/analysis. Matt Keeling has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2004 for his work on mathematical biology. The full ist of prizewinners can be found here.

1 November 2004	Top
Oleg Zaboronski awarded Industry Fellowship Oleg Zaboronski has been awarded a Royal Society Industry Fellowship for 4 years to work half time with Arithmatica at their Research and Development Center, Haseley Business Centre, Warwick, UK on New maximal likelihood decoding algorithms and their applications from October 2004.

27 October 2004	Top
300,000 Pound Pledge Creates 40 Scholarships for UK Students of Pakistani or Bangladeshi Origin.

16 September 2004	Top
A memorial symposium for David Fowler will be organised by Jeremy Gray, Eleanor Robson, and Miles Reid. It will be held in the Mathematics Institute on the 9th November, 2004.

15 July 2004	Top
Graduation tea The Graduating Class of 2004 returned to receive their degrees. In a strawberry tea following the ceremony prizes for outstanding academic achievement were presented by the Chair, David Rand. Although we only give a small number of prizes each year, many students achieve extremely high standards. This year saw our MMath student numbers increase to 70, the highest so far, and nearly two-thirds of all finalists acheived a First or 2(i). During the year nearly 60 PhD, MSc and Financial Maths students successfully completed their degrees. Most of this year's graduating class go on to a very broad range of careers: 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 terms of job placements for its graduates and this year is no exception.

1 July 2004	Top
Vladimir Markovic has been awarded the Whitehead Prize The London Mathematical Society has awarded a Whitehead Prize for 2004 to Vladimir Markovic for his work on infinite-dimensional Teichmüller spaces. Vlad is a Reader in the Mathematics Institute and holds an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship. The full citation can be found here.

12 June 2004	Top
The Opening The Opening of the Mathematics and Statistics Building took place on June 12th. The event also celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Mathematics Institute and the 30th anniversary of the Statistics Department. Many alumni of both Departments came for a day of celebrations. The ribbon was cut by retired staff from both Departments at the invitation of the Vice-Chancellor. From left to right are Christopher Zeeman, Denise Fowler, Bill Parry, Margaret Green, Brian Sanderson, Alan Robinson, Stewart Stonehewer, Larry Markus, Roger Carter, Jeff Harrison, and David Epstein. In the background are the Vice-Chancellor, David VandeLinde, and the Chair of Mathematics, David Rand. Programme Solutions to the quiz

27 May 2004	Top
David Epstein elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. From the citation: "Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick: He has been for many years a world leading and influential researcher in low dimensional topology, geometry and analysis and their inter-relationships."

10 May 2004	Top
The Opening The official Opening of the Mathematics and Statistics Building will take place on June 12th. The event will be combined with the 40th anniversary of the Mathematics Institute and the 30th anniversary of the Statistics Department. Many alumni of both departments have been invited to a day of celebrations.     Programme

4 May 2004	Top
David Herbert Fowler With great sadness we report the passing away of David Fowler on 13th April 2004, aged 67. He graduated from Cambridge after completing the Tripos in 1959 and began his academic career at the University of Manchester in 1961 before moving to Warwick in 1967 as a Lecturer and to manage the Mathematics Research Centre until 1990. David was one of the 20th century's most innovative and stimulating historians of mathematics. With his lucid and engaging book The Mathematics of Plato's Academy (OUP 1987, 2nd, rev. ed. 1999) he fundamentally rewrote the history of early Greek mathematics. In it he argued that the discovery of incommensurability did not provoke the crisis that led to the de-arithmetised tradition embodied by Euclid's Elements. Rather, he claimed, the Elements were the culmination of a mathematical culture that was deeply engaged with ideas of ratio and proportion. The idea of the dialogue between Socrates and slaveboy, teacher and student, ran deep not only in his historical writing but also in his undergraduate mathematics teaching at the University of Warwick. His acute powers of observation and pleasure in stimulating, thought-provoking discussion won him many friends and admirers in the history of mathematics community worldwide. He was awarded a DSc of the University of Warwick in 1999 by submission of published papers. On his retirement in 2000 he was appointed an Emeritus Reader by the University. Obituaries have appeared in The Guardian, The Independent and the Times.

16 April 2004	Top
Mural by artist Ian Davenport Ian Davenport (left), a Turner Prize-nominated artist, has completed a large-scale lottery-funded piece of art in the new Maths and Stats Building. Working in situ the artist poured paint down a 30 x 35-foot wall to create a shimmering curtain of colour. More information can be found in this University press release. A similar work is featured in a BBC article.