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Alessio Figalli: inaugural lecture
![Alessio Figalli](/news-and-events/news/d-math-news/2017/02/alessio-figalli-inaugural-lecture/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1737410318.jpg)
On 28 February, Professor Alessio Figalli gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Optimal transport: theory and applications". He has been professor at the Department since September 2016.
Doctoral exam of Wei Qian
![Nathanaël Berestycki, Wei Qian, Wendelin Werner](/news-and-events/news/d-math-news/2017/02/doctoral-exam-of-wei-qian/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1197907552.jpg)
Wei Qian successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "On Brownian loop-soup cluster decompositions and conformal restriction". Congratulations!
Doctoral exam of Ricardo Campos
![Alberto Cattaneo, Thomas Willwacher, Ricardo Campos, Bruno Vallette](/news-and-events/news/d-math-news/2017/02/doctoral-exam-of-ricardo-campos/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.410204160.jpg)
Ricardo Campos successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Batalin-Vilkovisky formality and configuration spaces of points". Congratulations!
Robert Kucharczyk: ETH Fellowship
![Paul Nelson, Robert Kucharczyk](/news-and-events/news/d-math-news/2017/02/robert-kucharczyk-eth-fellowship/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1201492517.jpg)
We are delighted to announce that Dr Robert Kucharczyk has received a fellowship of the ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme.
Doctoral exam of Alex Maier
![Alexander Gorodnik, Alex Maier, Manfred Einsiedler](/news-and-events/news/d-math-news/2017/02/doctoral-exam-of-alex-maier/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1540939093.jpg)
Alex Maier successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "On simultaneous equidistributing and nondense points for noncommuting endomorphisms". Congratulations!