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Departmental News

Mathematical Modelling in Ecology and Evolution, 12-15 August


York is hosting the international conference Mathematical Modelling in Ecology and Evolution (MMEE 2013), see here for details. There is funding to support the attendance of UK PhD students and participants from LMS Scheme 5 or former Soviet Union countries.

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Edited 3 May 2013 - 09:55 by cac7

PhD Viva Success 2012/2013


Congratulations to the following students for passing their vivas:-

October: Vidas Regelski and David Hunt 

November: Ahsan Ul-Haq

December: Tom Potts

Jan: Anand Ramachandran

April: Dan McNulty

May: 

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Edited 16 May 2013 - 15:31 by cac7

Mathematics to reduce animal testing


A York-based team, in collaboration with industrial partners, has secured 2.75 years of research funding from NC3Rs (National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research) to investigate how mathematics can be used to reduce our reliance on animal testing in evaluating the toxicological safety of new chemicals.

The interdisciplinary team is led by Jon Pitchford (Mathematics/

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Edited 15 Nov 2012 - 15:36 by cac7

Bone damage at the molecular scale


A team of mathematicians, chemists and archaeologists at the University of York have come up with a new way to triage old bones using mass-spectrometric methods.

The new approach reported in the journal Analytical Chemistry (DOI: 10.1021/ac301333t) was developed by Julie Wilson, working with the BioArCh team of Nienke van Dorn and

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Edited 17 Oct 2012 - 12:14 by cac7

Pioneer Magazine feature on Professor Sanju Velani


Research group:
Number Theory

The article 'How I work: Professor Sanju Velani, Head of Pure of Mathematics at the University of York, on his modus operandi' is featured on page 34 of the latest edition of Pioneer, the magazine of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Pioneer is available in print form and online. The magazine PDF can be found following this link.

Edited 8 Oct 2012 - 10:30 by cac7

Mathematical Finance books published by Springer and Cambridge University Press


Research group:
Mathematical Finance

'Derivative Pricing in Discrete Time' by Dr Alet Roux and Emeritus Professor Nigel Cutland has recently been published in the Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. This book developed from lecture notes for the MSc in Mathematical Finance module 'Discrete Time Modelling and Derivative Securities'.

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Edited 10 Oct 2012 - 20:40 by cac7

Science article generates significant media interest


Research group:
Statistics

Dr Sonia Mazzi is co-author of Adaptive Prolonged Postreproductive Life Span in Killer Wales, published in Science.  The paper has attracted significant media interest, including New Scientist, and a

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Edited 8 Oct 2012 - 14:33 by cac7

Bayesian Statistics book published


Dr Peter Lee, Honorary Fellow in the Mathematics Department, has just had the 4th edition of his book Bayesian Statistics: An Introduction published.  The revision includes a substantial amount of new material.  Further information can be found at http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118332571.html

Submitted on 15 Aug 2012 - 09:34 by rr700

Prestigious studentship awarded


Maths graduand Josephine Oduor has been awarded a prestigious 1851 Industrial Design Studentship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. 

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Edited 9 Jul 2012 - 12:00 by nm15

Nature Publication proves that mutualism and connectedness, not 'nesting', are the key to robustness of ecosystems


Research group:
Mathematical Biology

Jon Pitchford is a co-author of a recent publication in Nature entitled 'Disentangling nestedness from models of ecological complexity'

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11214.html.

 

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Edited 13 Jul 2012 - 10:25 by nm15

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