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The student associations VSETH and VMP have chosen to honour Professor Peter Jossen with the 2020 Golden Owl. In this interview, he talks about the challenges he has had to face with the switch to online teaching and what he considers excellent teaching to be.

Christian Beck successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Numerical approximation methods for high-dimensional partial differential equations of second order". Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer was elected to the Academia Europaea.

On 26 October, Professor Afonso Bandeira gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Computation, statistics, and optimization of random functions". He has been professor at the Department since September 2019.

On 26 October, Professor Peter Feller gave his inaugural lecture entitled: "Knots and geometry". He has been assistant professor at the Department since September 2019.