July 2021: Farr Prize Prize
The Farr Prize is awarded to the best performers in final year examinations for a BSc student in the Department of Mathematics or Statistics. This year, we are delighted to announce that Natasha Tai is the winner of the Farr Prize! Congratulations Natasha!
July 2021: IMA Prize
We are delighted to announce that Hamish Lai, a BSc Mathematics with Economics student, has been awarded the IMA Prize! The prize, awarded by the Institute of Mathematics and its applications, awards students who display an outstanding performance in the final year of an IMA approved course. Congratuations Hamish!
July 2021: Wynne-Roberts Prizes
The Wynne-Roberts Prizes are awarded to both first and second year students who have achieved best performance in their mathematics courses.
Congratulations to Jacopo Chirico, who is a current first year student on the BSc Mathematics & Economics.
For our second year cohort, our winner is Haoyuan Ma on the BSc Mathematics with Economics programme. Congratulations!
July 2021: Cyril Offord Prize
The Cyril Offord Prize for outstanding performance in mathematics is awarded each year to a student on one of the following programmes: BSc Financial Mathematics & Statistics, BSc in Mathematics & Economics, BSc Mathematics with Economics and BSc in Mathematics, Statistics & Business.
Congratulations to Natasha Tai, a BSc Financial Mathematics & Statistics student, on her amazing results and hard work!
July 2021: Joseph Abraham Prize
The Joseph Abraham Prize, named after an MSc Financial Mathematics student who sadly died in 2015, is given to those on the same programme who have shown outstanding achievement in their studies on the MSc Financial Mathematics degree.
This year we have joint winners! Congratulations to Sam Adamson and Alex Thornton for your amazing work and achievements.
July 2021: John Ying Wah Gibson Citizenship and Voluntary Prizes
Congratulations to Celine Mano, the winner of the Citizenship Prize, for all her hard work and dedication to society and the LSE community!
Also a big congratulations to Emad Naghavi, the winner of the Voluntary Work Award! We are so proud of everything you have achieved.
Details fo the Prize and Award can be read here.
June 2021: Department of Mathematics New Teacher Prize
Congratulations to Justin Gwee and Aled Williams for winning our Department's New Teacher Prize! We are so proud of all the amazing work our teachers have done this year for our students and the Department!
June 2021: Vacancy for Teaching Support Officer
We are looking to appoint a Teaching Support Officer to join our growing professional services team! Closing date is 17 June 2021. For more information and to apply, please see here.
May 2021: In memory of Profesor Ailsa Land (1927-2021)
We are saddened by the loss of Emeritus Professor Ailsa Land who passed away on 16 May 2021. She played a pivotal role in the development of Operational Research and Mathematical Programming, and was one of the founders of LSE's Operational Research group. You can read more on Ailsa's life and work here.
April 2021: Vacancy for Research Officer in Algorithms and Optimisation
We are looking to appoint a Research Officer on the European Research Council Starting Grant Project “Scaling Methods for Discrete and Continuous Optimisation” (‘ScaleOpt’) working with Principal Investigator Prof László Végh. Closing date 5 June 2021. More information here.
November 2020: Ailsa Land Prize
Congratulations to Lisa Lentati for winning the Ailsa Land Prize! The Ailsa Land Prize is awarded annually for the best overall performance by a student on the MSc Operations Research & Analytics. More information on the prize can be found here.
November 2020: Haya Freedman Prize
Congratulations to our winner Morgan Bounds for winning the Haya Freedman Prize! The prize is awarded annually for the best dissertation produced by a student on the MSc in Applicable Mathematics. More information on the prize can be found here.
November 2020: Vacancy for Assistant Professor
The Department of Mathematics is hiring! We are currently advertising for an Assistant Professor in Mathematics specialising in the Mathematics of Game Theory. Closing date 11 January 2021. More information here.
November 2020: Khachiyan Prize
We are excited to announce that Professor Jim Orlin, a Visiting Professor in the Department, has received the prestigious Khachiyan Prize by the INFORMS Optimization Society, recognising his distinguished contributions in optimisation.
November 2020: LSE100 Prizes
We are happy to announce that Zuzanna Palion, Manuel Valdez Alcazar, Xuyi Yang, and Andy (Chengyang) Zhu have received the LSE100 Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in the 2019-20 cohort! Congratulations to our wonderful students!
October 2020: BSHM Undergraduate Essay Prize
We are very proud to announce that Arman Jena, a recent BSc Mathematics with Economics graduate, was a runner-up in the British Society for the History of Mathematics Undergraduate Essay Prize. Congratulations Arman!
September 2020: John Ying Wah Gibson Citizenship and Voluntary Prizes
Congratulations to Julia-Huiyu Huang, the winner of the Citizenship Prize, for all her hard work and dedication to society and the LSE community!
Also a big congratulations to Jessica Thakkar, the winner of the Voluntary Work Award! We are so proud of all you have achieved.
Details fo the Prize and Award can be read here.
September 2020: DODU Prize
Congratulations to Bento Natura, who is the joint winner of the DODU Prize for the best talk of a young researcher for his talk titled 'A scaling-invariant algorithm for linear programming whose running time depends only on the constraint matrix'. The prize was announced at the SMAI-MODE Conference which took place online in September 2020.
August 2020: Nora Frankl LMS Early Career Fellowship
Congratulations to Nora Frankl, who has been awarded a LMS Early Career Fellowship hosted by the Department of Mathematics at LSE. We can't wait to have you on board!
July 2020: Graduation - Class of 2020
The Department of Mathematics want to congratulate all our graduating students from our undergraduate and MSc Financial Mathematics programmes. We are so proud of everything you have achieved in light of the more difficult circumstances this year.
We look forward to seeing what you go on to achieve in the future!
July 2020: Joseph Abraham Prize Winners
The Joseph Abraham Prize, named after an MSc Financial Mathematics student who sadly died in 2015, is given to those on the same programme who have shown outstanding achievement in their studies on the MSc Financial Mathematics degree.
This year we have joint winners! Congratulations to Mehdi Kaabache and Matteo Zanardi for your amazing work and achievements.
July 2020: Farr Prize Winners
The Farr Prize is awarded to the best performer(s) in final year examinations for a BSc student in the Department of Mathematics or Statistics. This year, all three winners are from the Department of Mathematics! We couldn't be prouder!
Congratulations to our three winners:
- Yixuan Li, BSc Financial Mathematics & Statistics
- Valentin Pechnikov, BSc Mathematics & Economics
- Yuliia Tereshchuk, BSc Mathematics & Economics
July 2020: Cyril Offord Prize Winners
We have joint winners of the Cyril Offord Prize for outstanding performance in mathematics this year. The prize is awarded annually to students on one of the following programmes: BSc Financial Mathematics & Statistics, BSc in Mathematics & Economics, BSc Mathematics with Economics and BSc in Mathematics, Statistics & Business.
Congratulations to Yumeng Cai, a BSc Financial Mathematics & Statistics student, and Sanjana Makhija, a BSc Mathematics with Economics student, on their amazing results and hard work!
July 2020: Wynne-Roberts Prize Winners
The Wynne-Roberts Prizes are awarded to both first and second year students who have achieved best performance in their mathematics courses.
Congratulations to Farid Abou Jaoude, who is a current first year student on the BSc Financial Mathematics & Statistics.
For our second year cohort, our winner is Simon Priot on the BSc Mathematics with Economics programme. Congratulations!
May 2020: Department of Mathematics New Teacher Prize
Congratulations to Kamila Nowakowicz, Kieran Ryan and Aled Williams for winning our Department's New Teacher Prize! We are so proud of you all and the amazing work you have done this year for our students and the Department.
May 2020: LSESU Student-led Teaching Excellence Awards
We are very happy to announce that Asuka Kumon won the 'Award for Online Teaching' in the LSESU Student-led Teaching Awards! Asuka was also nominated in the categories for 'Excellent Feedback and Communication', 'Inspirational Teaching' and 'Sharing Subject Knowledge'. Congratulations Asuka! You can find out more on the awards here.
April 2020: Python Coding Challenge
Congratulations to our students Wian Stipp, Sanjit Neelam and Farid Abou Jaoude who participated in the Python Coding Challenge! A special mention to Wian Stipp, whose team (Team Robbins 2.0) won 'Best Application of Python Learning' and 'Best Teamwork and Collaboration'!
March 2020: Vacancy for LSE Fellow
The Department of Mathematics is hiring! We are currently advertising for a LSE Fellow specialising in Mathematical Operations Research. Closing date 19 April 2020. More information here.
December 2019: Graduation - Class of 2019
As a Department, we want to congratulate all our students from our MSc Applicable Mathematics and MSc Operations Research & Analytics programmes who graduated this morning! We are immensely proud of all of your achievements whilst you studied with us here at the LSE, and we wish you all the best in your futures!
December 2019: Academic Prize Winners
Ailsa Land Prize
This is the second year we are awarding the Ailsa Land prize for the best overall performance by a student on the MSc Operations Research & Analytics. The winner for 2018/19 is Yuzhou Qiu. Congratulations! For more information on the prize and on Ailsa Land, please see here.
Haya Freedman Prize
Congratulations to our joint winners Milad Avazbeigi (left) and Philipp Sterzinger (right) for winning the Haya Freedman Prize. The prize is awarded annually for the best dissertation produced by a student on the MSc in Applicable Mathematics. More information on the prize can be found here.
October 2019: LSE100 Prize
We are so proud to hear that Alexander Garland, one of our third year undergraduate students, received an LSE100 award for his excellent work and commitment to interdisciplinary learning in LSE100 in 2018/19. Congratulations Alexander!