Department of Mathematics

All change in the Department of Mathematics

New faces, some goodbyes, and a new degree

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

We have unfortunately said goodbye to our temporary lecturer, Dr Grant Galbraith, and also to two of our research officers, Mr Alberto Pompermaier and Dr Leonidas Pitsoulis. We would like to thank all three of them for their good work in their time here and wish them very well in their future careers.

On a more positive note, we are welcoming two new members of staff to the Department:

Dr Malwina Luczak is joining us as a permanent lecturer in September. Malwina joins us from the Statistical Laboratory of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at University of Cambridge. Her main research fields are probability and discrete mathematics, and she gained her DPhil in Mathematical Sciences from University of Oxford at the beginning of 2001. In the coming academic year Malwina will be teaching MA303 Chaos in Dynamical Systems and MA313 Probability for Finance and Economics.

We also welcome Dr Robert Johnson, who will be joining us in September as a temporary lecturer for the next academic year. Robert is also coming to us from the University of Cambridge, where has recently completed his PhD. His research focuses on combinatorics and graph theory. Robert will be responsible for the courses MA201 Further Mathematical Methods (Linear Algebra) and MA311 Discrete Mathematics in the coming academic year.

And finally... the Mathematics Department is proud to present its new degree programme: the MSc in Applicable Mathematics. This new Masters programme, which will commence in October 2004, is a major step for the Department and we will be expanding accordingly. This is our first MSc programme; the plan is to launch others within the next few years.

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