The Faculty of Mathematics at the

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comprises the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). It is housed in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences site in West

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, alongside the

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. Many distinguished mathematicians have been members of the faculty.

Some current members

DPMMS

Béla Bollobás Béla Bollobás FRS (born 3 August 1943) is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, and percolation. He was strongly influenced by Paul E ...

* John Coates *

Thomas Forster Thomas Forster (1683 – October 1738), of Adderstone Hall, Northumberland, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1716. He served as a general of the Jacobite army in the 1715 Uprising ...

Timothy Gowers Sir William Timothy Gowers, (; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, and director of research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Col ...

* Peter Johnstone *

Imre Leader Imre Bennett Leader is a British Othello player, employed as a professor of pure mathematics at Cambridge University. As a child, he was a pupil at the private St Paul's School and won a silver medal on the British team at the 1981 Internatio ...

Gabriel Paternain Gabriel Pedro Paternain is a Uruguayan mathematician. He is Professor of Mathematics in DPMMS at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Trinity College. He obtained his Licenciatura from Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay in 1987, and hi ...

Statistical Laboratory

* John Aston *

Geoffrey Grimmett Geoffrey Richard Grimmett (born 20 December 1950) is a mathematician known for his work on the mathematics of random systems arising in probability theory and statistical mechanics, especially percolation theory and the contact process. He is ...

Frank Kelly Francis Kelly (28 December 1938 – 28 February 2016) was an Irish actor, singer and writer, whose career covered television, radio, theatre, music, screenwriting and film. He is best remembered for playing Father Jack Hackett in the Channel ...

Ioannis Kontoyiannis Ioannis Kontoyiannis (born January 1972) is a Greek mathematician and information theorist. He is the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research with the Statistical Laboratory, in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathemat ...

Richard Nickl Richard Nickl (born 13 June 1980) is an Austrian mathematician and Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge. He grew up in Vienna, attended secondary school at the Theresianum there (graduating in 1998 with distinctio ...

* James Norris *

Richard Samworth Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science (Cambridge), Professor of Statistical Science and the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge#Directors of the Statistical Laboratory, Director of the Statis ...

David Spiegelhalter Sir David John Spiegelhalter (born 16 August 1953) is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the U ...

* Richard Weber

DAMTP

Gary Gibbons Gary William Gibbons (born 1 July 1946) is a British theoretical physicist. Education Gibbons was born in Coulsdon, Surrey. He was educated at Purley County Grammar School and the University of Cambridge, where in 1969 he became a researc ...

Julia Gog Julia Rose Gog is a British mathematician and professor of mathematical biology in the faculty of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. She is also a David N. Moore fellow, director of studies in mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge ...

, professor of mathematical biology * Raymond E. Goldstein *

Rich Kerswell Richard Kerswell FRS is a British fluid mechanics scientist and the G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Paul Linden Paul Frederick Linden (born 29 January 1947) is a mathematician specialising in fluid dynamics. He was the third G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge, inaugural Blasker Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Envi ...

* Michael Green * Peter Haynes, fluid dynamicist * John Hinch, fluid dynamicist, retired 2014 *

Richard Jozsa Richard Jozsa is an Australian mathematician who holds the Leigh Trapnell Chair in Quantum Physics at the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, where his research investigates quantum information science. A pion ...

Hugh Osborn Hugh Osborn is a British theoretical high-energy physicist and a professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He is known for his work on Conformal Field Theory and Quantum Field T ...

John Papaloizou John Christopher Baillie Papaloizou FRS (born 1947) is a British theoretical physicist. Papaloizou is a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge. He works on the theory of ...

* Malcolm Perry * David Tong, theoretical physicist *

Paul Townsend Paul Kingsley Townsend FRS (; born 3 March 1951) is a British physicist, currently a Professor of Theoretical Physics in Cambridge University's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He is notable for his work on string the ...

Grae Worster Michael Grae Worster (born 16 July 1958) is a British fluid dynamicist at the University of Cambridge. He is a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Since 2007, he ha ...

, editor for the ''

Journal of Fluid Mechanics The ''Journal of Fluid Mechanics'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of fluid mechanics. It publishes original work on theoretical, computational, and experimental aspects of the subject. The journal is published by Cambridge Uni ...

'' *

Mihaela van der Schaar Mihaela van der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, AI, and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, where she is director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM), and a Chancellor's Professor of Electri ...

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (born 1979) is an Austrian mathematician who works in image processing and partial differential equations. She is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Applied Mat ...

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

The Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) was created in 1964 under the headship of Sir William Hodge. It was housed in a converted warehouse at 16 Mill Lane, adjacent to its sister department DAMTP, until its move around 2000 to the present Centre for Mathematical Sciences where it occupies Pavilions C, D, and E.

Heads of department

*1964–1969 W. V. D. Hodge *1969–1984

J. W. S. Cassels John William Scott "Ian" Cassels, FRS (11 July 1922 – 27 July 2015) was a British mathematician. Biography Cassels was educated at Neville's Cross Council School in Durham and George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. He went on to study at ...

*1984–1991 D. J. H. Garling *1991–1997

John H. Coates John Henry Coates (26 January 1945 – 9 May 2022) was an Australian mathematician who was the Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom from 1986 to 2012. Early life and education Coates ...

*1997–2002

W. B. R. Lickorish William Bernard Raymond Lickorish (born 19 February 1938) is a mathematician. He is emeritus professor of geometric topology in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, and also an emeritus fello ...

*2002–2007

*2007–2014

Martin Hyland (John) Martin Elliott Hyland is professor of mathematical logic at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. His interests include mathematical logic, category theory, and theoretical computer science. Education H ...

*2014–2018

*2018– James Norris

Statistical Laboratory

The Statistical Laboratory is a Sub-Department of DPMMS. It was created in 1947 with accommodation in a "temporary hut", and was established on 21 March 1953 within the Faculty of Mathematics. It moved in 1958 to the basement of the new Chemistry Department in Lensfield Road, and then formed part of the new Department (DPMMS) in Mill Lane on its creation in 1964. It occupies Pavilion D of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Directors of the Statistical Laboratory

*1953–1956 John Wishart *1956–1957

Henry Daniels Henry Ellis Daniels FRS (2 October 1912 – 16 April 2000) was a British statistician. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society (1974–1975), and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984, following a silver medal in 1947. He bec ...

, Acting Director *1957–1960

Dennis Lindley Dennis Victor Lindley (25 July 1923 – 14 December 2013) was an English statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. Biography Lindley grew up in the south-west London suburb of Surbiton. He was an only child an ...

*1960–1962 Morris Walker, Acting Director *1962–1973 David Kendall *1973–1987 Peter Whittle *1987–1991 David Williams *1991–1993

*1994–2000

*2000–2009 Richard Weber *2009–2017 James Norris *2017–

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

The Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) was founded by

George Batchelor George Keith Batchelor FRS (8 March 1920 – 30 March 2000) was an Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist. He was for many years a Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, and was founding head of the De ...

in 1959, and for many years was situated on Silver Street, in the former office buildings of

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. Currently, the Department is located at the

Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge) The Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at the University of Cambridge houses the university's Faculty of Mathematics, the Isaac Newton Institute, and the Betty and Gordon Moore Library. It is situated on Wilberforce Road, formerly a St Jo ...

. Theoretical Physics (including

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, relativity, and

high energy physics Particle physics or high energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The fundamental particles in the universe are classified in the Standard Model as fermions (matter particles) and b ...

) occupies most of Pavilion B, while Applied Mathematics (including

fluid dynamics In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids— liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including ''aerodynamics'' (the study of air and other gases in motion) an ...

and

solid mechanics Solid mechanics, also known as mechanics of solids, is the branch of continuum mechanics that studies the behavior of solid materials, especially their motion and deformation under the action of forces, temperature changes, phase changes, and ot ...

) occupies most of Pavilions F, G, and H.

Heads of department

*1959–1983

*1983–1991

Keith Moffatt Henry Keith Moffatt, FRS FRSE (born 12 April 1935) is a Scottish mathematician with research interests in the field of fluid dynamics, particularly magnetohydrodynamics and the theory of turbulence. He was Professor of Mathematical Physics at ...

*1991–2000

David Crighton David George Crighton, FRS (15 November 1942 – 12 April 2000) was a British mathematician and physicist. Life Crighton was born in Llandudno, North Wales, where his mother, Violet Grace Garrison, had been sent because of the bombing of Londo ...

*2000–2005 Timothy J. Pedley *2005–2015 Peter Haynes *2015–2020 Nigel Peake *2020– Colm-Cille Patrick Caulfield

References

External links

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Some current members

DPMMS

Statistical Laboratory

DAMTP

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

Heads of department

Statistical Laboratory

Directors of the Statistical Laboratory

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Heads of department

See also

References

External links