Dept News, April 2015

1. Many congratulations to Andrew Granville who has been awarded an ERC Advanced grant for his project 'An alternative development of analytic number theory and applications'.

2. Helen Wilson has recently been elected President of The British Society of Rheology

3. Olly Southwick recently awarded a SIAM prize for best student talk , 'A point-vortex model for the formation of ocean eddies by flow separation', at the 2015 BAMC meeting held in Cambridge.

4. John Talbot has appeared in the media explaining the odds of winning the lottery twice in a lifetime: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/headlines/0415/080415-winning-lottery

5. Work by colleagues Martin Utley, Christina Pagel and Sonya Crowe in CORU published April 2 in the journal 'Open Heart' has led to much media interest e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32162803

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/02/uk-childrens-heart-surgery-deaths-halve-10-years-open-heart