Double Success for Maths Professor
Professor Jon Fraser has been awarded the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, as well as being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
School news
Two Staff Win Teaching Awards
Dr Finn Smith has been awarded a University Teaching Excellent Award and Dr Chris Sutherland has won the student-selected award for Outstanding Innovation in Teaching.
PhD Student Awarded Prestigious Travel Grant
Laura Johnson, PhD student in the Algebra and Combinatorics Group, has been awarded the prestigious 2024 London Mathematical Society Cecil King Travel Scholarship for early career mathematicians.
Mathematicians Recognised in the New Year Honours List
Two members of the School featured in the King’s New Year Honours 2024. Colva Roney-Dougal was awarded an OBE for Services to Education and Mathematics and Kenneth Falconer a CBE for Services to Mathematics.
Statisticians Educate and Entertain at Explorathon2023 in Dundee
Statisticians from CREEM (Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling) participated in Explorathon2023, a science festival to encourage the public to engage with research, using interactive games.
Covid-19 Team Win Royal Society of Edinburgh Award
A Scottish universities team, including the School’s Ben Swallow, has won the RSE Mary Somerville Medal for their analyses and insights that supported the pandemic's evidence-informed policy and public health response.
Research Student Awarded Prestigious Travel Scholarship
Alex Rutar, a research student working on fractal geometry, has won the 2023 London Mathematical Society Cecil King Travel Scholarship for early career mathematicians.
Mathematician Wins Two Awards for Work on the Planet Jupiter
Daphné Lemasquerier has been awarded the Donald L. Turcotte Award as well as the Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics for her work on the fluid dynamics of the planet Jupiter.
St Andrews Mathematician wins Royal Society of Edinburgh Medal
Professor Jonathan Fraser has been awarded the 2022 Royal Society of Edinburgh's Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane Medal for his world-leading research in fractal geometry.
School of Mathematics and Statistics Research Excellence
The School of Mathematics and Statistics receives results for the Research Excellence (REF2021) submission.