On 5 March, Alison Etheridge held the 2024 Alice Roth lecture "Some mathematical models of evolution". She is Professor of Probability at the University of Oxford.
Piyush Panchal successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Electrostatic and magnetostatic force computation with shape calculus and BEM". Congratulations!
Lisa Ricci successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "The symplectic Hitchin component for triangle groups: dimension formula and parameters for ∆ (3; 4; 4)". Congratulations!
After 28 years in the department, Professor Giovanni Felder gave his farewell lecture on 28 February. In this interview, he speaks about his early years switching between disciplines, and his time as the founding director of the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies and as co-director of NCCR SwissMAP.
On 21 February, Professor Sarah Zerbes gave her inaugural lecture entitled: "Elliptic curves and Fermat’s last theorem". She has been a professor at the Department since 1 January 2022.
As part of the STEM week at MNG Rämibühl, a group of students visited the Department. After a brief introduction to the study programme, the students had the opportunity to test their problem-solving skills to unravel the secrets of mathematical card tricks.