News about Awards

Renowned mathematician to be awarded honorary doctorate

Professor Karen Vogtmann, world-renowned for her research in topology and geometric group theory, will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen on November 17, upon the recommendation of the…

Outstanding PhD trio receives honours

Mathematician Robin Reuvers was honored for his PhD project on the so-called Bose-gases, when SCIENCE presented this years PhD awards.

Spanish award to QMATH postdoc

The Royal Spanish Mathematical Society will in October award postdoc Angelo Lucia the Vicent Caselles Award for brilliant work of international impact.

Funding for mathematical experiments

Associate Professor Jesper Lund Pedersen and postdoc Alexandra Muñoz have received funding from the VILLUM FOUNDATION to think outside the box. Their projects could lead to radical breakthroughs within mathematics. If…

Statistics professor named Teacher of the Year at SCIENCE 2017

Professor Susanne Ditlevsen at the Department of Mathematical Sciences is so good at making figures and mind-bending statistical calculations interesting and accessible for her students that she has now been awarded…

Research support for biostatistics and L-functions

Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences awards 51 DFF-Research Project Grants to researchers in Denmark to the sum of approximately DKK 159 million. Two of these projects are led by researchers from…

KU researcher with bad climate news won the Danish Research Result of the Year

Gary Shaffer, Professor Emeritus at the Niels Bohr Institute, and Jens Olaf Pepke Pedersen from DTU have made the year’s most important scientific discovery, according to the users of Videnskab.dk.

Helene Rytgaard receives prize for Best Master Thesis 2016

Danish Mathematical Society's thesis prize of 15,000 kr. will be presented to Helene Rytgaard at an event 2 June.

Sparreska Prize to Dan Petersen

The Sparreska Prize will be rewarded to Dan Petersen, associate professor at Department for Mathematical Sciences, by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant to QMATH postdoc

Jed Kaniewski, postdoc at QMATH, has won a competitive Marie Curie-Fellowship, which he will carry at our department during the next two years.

Gerard ’t Hooft receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2016

The Dutch professor of theoretical physics, Nobel laureate Gerard ’t Hooft has been awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2016 for his groundbreaking work on black holes, quantum gravity and quantum field…

Professor Steffen Lauritzen has received the Humboldt Prize

The Humboldt Research Award has been granted to Professor Steffen Lauritzen, professor in statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, in recognition of his past accomplishments in research and teaching.

Mathematician receives Carlsberg Foundation Research Award 2016

Professors Morten Broberg and Tobias Holck Colding received the Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize 2016 for excellent research in international development law and mathematics, respectively.

Nordstat poster prize

Frederik Riis Mikkelsen, a PhD student at MATH, won honors and prizes in a poster competition at the conference Nordstat 2016.

Two million DKK to research in C*-algebras

Associate professor Magdalena Musat and Professor Mikael Rørdam have received a grant from the The Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences to the project ”Groups, Actions and C*-algebras”.

Jan W. Thomsen receives the award Teacher of the Year, SCIENCE 2016

“Jan W. Thomsen captivates the physics students when he takes them into the world of quantum optics and with his great enthusiasm and energetic demeanour he manages to create a learning atmosphere where students can…

Kang Li wins poster award

PhD student Kang Li won last week an award for best poster at a conference on mathematical neuroscience.

Thesis Prize to Nilin Abrahamsen

Danish Mathematical Society's thesis prize of 15,000 DKK will be presented Friday, June 10, to Nilin Abrahamsen at an event on HCØ.

Two mathematicians elected to the Academy of Science

Copenhagen University and the Department of Mathematical Sciences are well represented among the new members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Gerd Grubb receives a Swedish honorary doctorate

Lund University promotes Gerd Grubb to honorary doctor and holds a seminar in her honor.

DFF-grant for DNA detective

Therese Graversen is not the first statistician to receive a postdoc grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research. But she may be the first to receive the grant from the council of Technology and Production…

Physicist Peter Lodahl receives prestigious EliteForsk Award

Peter Lodahl, professor of quantum physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen has received the prestigious Danish elite researcher award, the EliteForsk Award 2016. Peter Lodahl works with…

Upcoming MATH professor receives ERC Grant

European Research Council (ERC) has today announced that the Danish mathematician, Professor Søren Galatius, is awarded the prestigious 2015 Consolidator Grant.

Marie Curie grant to Sinan Yalin

MATH postdoc Sinan Yalin has received a Marie Curie Research Fellowship. The 166,829 € grant will be hosted at the Center for Symmetry and Deformation.