Department of Mathematics

All change in the Department of Mathematics

New faces... and some goodbyes

The summer months have seen some significant changes in the Department of Mathematics at LSE.

Dr Robert Simon joined us at the start of July. Bob joins us from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His main research field is mathematical game theory, especially Bayesian games, stochastic games and games with incomplete information on one side. In the coming academic year Bob will be teaching MA201 Further Mathematical Methods (Linear Algebra) and MA311 Discrete Mathematics.

We also welcome Dr Amol Sasane, who started with us on 1st August. Amol got his PhD from the University of Groningen in Holland in 2001 and until recently he was working as a senior research associate in the Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Department at Virginia Tech., USA. His main research interests are infinite-dimensional systems theory, the behavioural approach to control theory and adaptive control for distributed parameter systems. Amol will be responsible for the courses MA103 Introduction to Abstract Mathematics (with Dr van den Heuvel) and MA305 Control Theory in the coming academic year.

Unfortunately we also have some goodbyes to say...

Dr Robert Johnson, who joined us for a year in September 2003, is leaving at the end of August to take up a permanent lectureship at QMW. Dr Matthew Johnson, a senior research officer funded for two years by the EPSRC, is also leaving, at the end of September, to take up a permanent lectureship in Durham. Our thanks go to both of them for all their work, along with our best wishes for the future in their careers.

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