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• Professor Robert Merton, Harvard Business School, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, gave the 2010 Kolmogorov Lecture: Observations on the Science of Finance in the Practice of Finance: Past, Present, and Future at Royal Holloway on 23 February 2010.
• Matthias Mnich, a co-author of G. Gutin, E.J. Kim and A. Yeo in a paper "Ordinal Embedding Relaxations Parameterized Above Tight Lower Bound", won the Philips Award of the Royal Society for Mathematics in the Netherlands in April 2010, for a presentation based on the paper.
• Prajwal Bhat, Bioinformatics research student, has won the top prize in the Bright Ideas 2010 competition run by WestFocus (a consortium of around 10 universities including RHUL). Praj's idea is for an eco-friendly and economically viable enzymatic pre-treatment of the toxic effluent from paper manufacturing, using bioengineered yeasts.
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Script analysis - Prof Fionn Murtagh and Adam Ganz of the Department of Media Arts have analysed these US television scripts and decoded the structure and hidden patterns in meaning that make them so successful - more. This work has just featured in The Guardian

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Recently Awarded Grants:

• Prof Fionn Murtagh - New Mathematical Approaches for Structuring, and Searching Through, Very Large Compressed, Encrypted, Textual Data Stores (EPSRC Industrial CASE with Thinking Safe)
• Dr Kostas Stathis - 3D Modelling of Agent-Based Web-Services for E-retailing Project (London Development Agency)
• Prof Gregory Gutin - Parameterized Problems on Directed Graphs (EPSRC)
• Prof Zhaohui Luo - Type-Theorectic Foundation of Mathematical Pluralism (Leverhulme Trust)
• Prof Dave Cohen - Tractability of Constraint Problems: Unification, Extension and Applicability (EPSRC)
• Dr Chris Watkins, with the School of Biological Sciences, RHUL - Amorphous Computation, Random Graphs and Complex Biological Networks (EPSRC)
• Dr Alex Clark - Grammatical inference with string kernels and latent structure techniques (EU PASCAL (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning) network)
• Prof Alex Gammerman, with University College London - Proteomic analysis of the Human Serum Proteome for Population Screening, Diagnosis and Biomarker Discovery (MRC)
• Prof Fionn Murtagh - Multiple Scale and Multimodal Data and Information Fusion in Human Sensory Discrimination (BBSRC)
• Dr Robin Adams - Reverse Mathematics in Dependent Type Theory (EPSRC Post Doctoral Fellowship)
• Dr Zhiyuan Luo - Machine Learning for Resource Management in Next-Generation Optical Networks (EPSRC)
• Dr Kostas Stathis - Argumentation as a Foundation for the Semantic Grid (EU)