University of Manchester - Archive (mathematics)
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2018
25
September
2018
The Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research (HIMR) will be opening a new office in Manchester, in partnership with the University’s School of Mathematics.
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03
September
2018
Norman Blackburn, formerly Fielden Professor of Pure Mathematics at The University of Manchester, died on 24 May 2018, aged 87, after a short illness.
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02
August
2018
Congratulations to Dr Stefan Güttel, who has received the 2018 Teaching Excellence Award.
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30
July
2018
Many thanks to Peter Duck and a warm welcome to Oliver Jensen as the new Head of School.
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19
July
2018
Congratulations to our recent School of Mathematics graduates, who celebrated graduation on Thursday, 19 July.
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11
July
2018
80 A-level Students attended this year’s Making Maths at Manchester to work on challenging maths problems.
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06
July
2018
The School of Mathematics held the first Women in Mathematics Research event on 29th June. The day was open to all year 12 students of mathematics, but female attendees were especially encouraged.
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03
July
2018
Researchers from the School of Mathematics are working with St. Mary's Hospital on placental research.
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2017
25
August
2017
A lost and unique collection of letters and correspondence from the late Alan Turing has been found in an old filing cabinet in a storeroom at the University of Manchester.
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10
July
2017
In today’s social media driven society an internet meme or online trend can explode in popularity overnight. But why do some online trends take the world by storm before disappearing just as quickly as they arrive?
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31
January
2017
University of Manchester scientists are preparing for the first ever UK-led meteorite hunting expedition to Antarctica, where they will seek out the 'lost’ meteorites of the icy continent, which could provide clues to planetary creation.
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2016
05
April
2016
A team of mathematicians from The University of Manchester has undertaken a huge experiment at Birmingham’s Big Bang Fair, to get people thinking about the science behind ‘ribbon curling’. Over 1000 young people from primary and secondary schools aro...
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30
March
2016
A flagship European project involving more than 100 universities and research centres has launched a range of prototype computer platforms to support brain research – and Manchester is right at the centre of it.
The ‘Human Brain Project’ has relea...
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08
March
2016
Dr Philip Pearce, a Research Fellow at The University of Manchester, has won first prize at the ‘SET for Britain’ competition in the House of Commons. Philip, who originally hails from Gnosall in Staffordshire, won the gold award and a £3000 prize, a...
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23
February
2016
Attendees of the annual Turing Lecture taking place at The University of Manchester tomorrow (Wednesday) will hear how smartphone technology has completely revolutionised the way we work and live.
In the lecture, entitled “The Internet of Me: It’s...
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2015
19
August
2015
New research has revealed that having mentally healthy friends can help someone recover from depression or even remain mentally healthy in the first place.
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18
June
2015
A new £1.75m fund to support visionary and pioneering pure mathematics at the University of Manchester was announced today, funded from the Estate of Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw.
The Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Charity is being set up with an endowmen...
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27
January
2015
A new technique to help surgeons find the exact location of heart defects could save lives, help them to treat patients more effectively and save health service cash.
The development, by researchers at The University of Manchester, will allow non-...
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2014
06
November
2014
A new fiendishly-challenging online brain-teaser, featuring cryptic clues, has been launched by mathematicians at The University of Manchester.
The online cryptography competition has been designed to coincide with the launch of the film ‘The Imit...
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01
July
2014
England’s early exit from the World Cup may have left football fans feeling forlorn but for those inclined to spice things up with a flutter on the remaining fixtures, help may be at hand.
The country’s leading maths experts are gathering at The U...
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2013
03
April
2013
Professor Yaojun Li, of the Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester, analysed survey data on over 100,000 adults in England and Wales, over ten years to 2011.
He will tell the British Sociological Association’s annual conference in L...
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08
January
2013
If you have ever wondered why you never seem to win at skill-based games such as poker or chess, there might be a very good reason.
Writing in PNAS, a University of Manchester physicist has discovered that some games are simply impossible to fully...
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2012
06
September
2012
Twenty-first century maths lessons in English secondary schools are generally much like those of decades ago, with the teacher standing at the front of the class asking questions and opportunities for pupils to relate the subject to their real lives ...
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26
June
2012
Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov yesterday [MON] completed a game of chess started more than 60 years ago by Alan Turing.
For the first time in public, Mr Kasparov played a match against Turing’s chess program live on stage at The University of Ma...
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14
February
2012
University of Manchester mathematicians have developed the theory for a Harry Potter style ’cloaking’ device which could protect buildings from earthquakes.
Dr William Parnell’s team in the University’s School of Mathematics have been working on t...
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09
January
2012
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The search for the next Alan Turing begins this New Year with a fiendish code-breaking competition for sc...
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2011
19
August
2011
Plato lent his name to Platonic love but a new book reveals that the ancient Greek philosopher never advocated love without sex.
University of Manchester science historian Dr Jay Kennedy, who hit the headlines last year after revealing he had crac...
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2010
22
December
2010
The University of Manchester has scooped a prestigious prize for a 3D airport scanner which can dramatically improve luggage security.
Professor Bill Lionheart and his team, working with security firm Rapiscan, won the Defence and Security prize a...
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28
June
2010
A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked “The Plato Code” – the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher’s writings.
Plato was the Einstein of Greece’s Golden Age and his work founded Western culture and...
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2009
16
December
2009
A team from the School of Mathematics and Manchester Business School has developed a novel means of helping mining companies accurately calculate the value of their reserves.
The technology provides a solution to an inaccurate methodology used com...
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