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 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.
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.
Alex Rutar, a research student working on fractal geometry, has won the 2023 London Mathematical Society Cecil King Travel Scholarship for early career mathematicians.
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.
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.
The School of Mathematics and Statistics receives results for the Research Excellence (REF2021) submission.
Dr Richard Glennie has been awarded the Young Biometrician Award for 2021 for his work on capture-recapture models.
The University of St Andrews is seeking to enhance its research strength in Statistics by appointing a new Chair in Statistics. Closing Date: 26 March 2021.
The School is advertising for 2 positions for Computational Mathematics/Statistics. Closing date 23 March 2021.