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Doctoral exam of Matthew Kwan
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Matthew Kwan successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Probabilistic reasoning in combinatorics". Congratulations!
Meet the Talent 2018
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Christopher Salahub, Master's student in mathematics, presented his work "How to bias a jury" at the 2018 Meet the Talent event of the ETH Zurich Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme.
Dominik Gruber: Isaac Newton Prize
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The 2018 Isaac Newton Prize For Early Career Researchers has been awarded to Dr Dominik Gruber for his preprint "Small cancellation theory over Burnside groups".
Peter Bühlmann and Rahul Pandharipande: ERC Advanced Grants
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We are delighted to announce that Peter Bühlmann and Rahul Pandharipande are two out of ten ETH Zurich researchers that have receive a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Their projects are funded with around 2 to 3 million Euro each.
Alan Baker obituary
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In 1966 the start of a new era in number theory was marked by Alan Baker, who has died aged 78, joining the department of pure mathematics at Cambridge University. With a cascade of papers, he had published solutions to a series of problems from a line of inquiry that went back to the third-century mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria. On the basis of this exceptional work, in 1970 Alan was awarded the Fields medal, one of the discipline’s highest distinctions.