Congratulations to Yi Yu, who has received the 2018 Distinguished Paper award by the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians, for her paper ‘A useful variant of the Davis–Kahan theorem for statisticians’ (Biometrika, 2015, vol 102, pages 315-323)
Archive | October, 2018
Partnership with Google to grow quantum software industry in the UK
The University of Bristol is joining forces with UCL and Google to launch a £5.5m Prosperity Partnership, which aims to harness the revolutionary power of quantum computers for applications in modelling and simulation. The initiative, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), is a collaboration between the UCL Quantum Science and Technology […]
Professor Oliver Johnson inaugural lecture
On 1 November 2018, Professor Oliver Johnson will give his Inaugural Lecture, entitled “Shannon and group testing: finding needles in haystacks”. The abstract for the talk is as follows: Claude Shannon’s Information Theory bridges mathematics and engineering, and shows how well every communication and data storage system can perform. In this lecture, Professor Johnson will […]
