Merton News

Merton's Special Fellow in Mathematics will address the August 2018 Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although formally not an award, an invitation to speak at an ICM is viewed in the mathematical world as an outstanding honour.

Alumnus Shan Quah (2011) was awarded the prize for the best PhD thesis in a zoological subject from any UK University for the year 2016 by the Zoological Society of London at a ceremony in London on Tuesday 20 June.

Third-year Biomedical & Clinical Sciences DPhil candidate Andreas Hadjinicolaou was named joint winner of the Ralph Steinman Memorial Prize for Immunology Research at the 2017 Advanced Immunology Summer School.

The award, made by the Smithsonian Institution, recognises a lifetime of "pioneering and rigorous" research work in Chinese art and archeology.

Five new rehearsal rooms, created through a major project to convert the College's former maintenance workshops, are now open and available for members of the College to use.

English teacher Ceri Boyle was presented with an Inspirational Teacher Award following her nomination by first-year English undergraduate Charlotte Green.

Already a winner of the Abel Prize—considered the Nobel Prize of Mathematics—Professor Wiles is best known for having solved Fermat's Last Theorem, a task that was believed to be impossible.

The award was given jointly to Professors Ong, Abramsky, Jagadeesan, Malacaria, and Hyland, and Dr Hanno Nickau, for "fundamentally revolutionising the field of programming language semantics".

Merton's Professorial Fellow in Mathematics says she is "absolutely delighted and deeply honoured" to have been made a member of the German National Academy of Sciences.

The Radcliffe Professor of Medicine and Professorial Fellow at Merton has been elected an FRS in recognition of his work on understanding the genetic basis of inherited heart muscle diseases.