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Doctoral exam of Blanka Horvath
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Blanka Horvath successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Robust methods for the SABR model and related processes: analysis, asymptotics and numerics". Congratulations!
Doctoral exam of Vladimir Kazeev
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Vladimir Kazeev successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Quantized tensor-structured finite elements for second-order elliptic PDEs in two dimensions". Congratulations!
Evelina Viada: inaugural lecture
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On 24 September, Prof. Evelina Viada gave her inaugural lecture entitled: "Numbers and equations". She has been an assistant professor at the Department since November 2014.
Rico Zenklusen: inaugural lecture
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On 15 September, Prof. Rico Zenklusen gave his inaugural lecture entitled "Mit kombinatorischer Optimierung zur Nadel im Heuhaufen". He has been an assistant professor at the Department since April 2015.
D-MATH and D-PHYS welcome freshmen
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At this year's first-year students event the Departments of Mathematics and Physics welcomed their new students of the degree programmes Mathematics, Physics and Computational Science and Engineering (CSE).