MathMods :: Joint MSc

Our student Iryna Kulchytska-Ruchka would like to share some pictures from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2016, which she attended last week and where she had the rare opportunity to meet Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (Fields Medal, 1966 and Abel Prize, 2004), as well as Vinton Gray Cerf (ACM A.M. Turing Award, 2004) and Heisuke Hironaka (Fields Medal, 1970).

More details about that special event can be found at the HLF website: http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org.

For more photos, visit the photo gallery of the event at https://www.flickr.com/photos/hlforum/sets/72157672915109901

Congratulations to our students who graduated at the same time on the same day (Thursday, September 15, 2016) but in two different places:

• L'Aquila (Philip Chan, Evans Etrue, Rodrigo Malavazi, Amr Ibrahim)
• Barcelona (Mael Guiomard, Thimjo KOCA, Boris PFAHRINGER and Boris Polcik )

Now that's a consortium! All the best for your future!

Here are a few photos from the excursion we made today (Sept 13, 2016) on mount Gran Sasso with our first and second-year students from MathMods and InterMaths (there were almost 80 of us!).

We took an "EASY" path from Campo Imperatore up to Rifugio Duca Degli Abruzzi. Then we had an arrosticini barbecue at Fonte Vetica (we're sure everyone has fallen in love with them by now!). Later in the afternoon we stopped by in the medieval village of Santo Stefano di Sessanio, where we made our way through its narrow cobbled streets.

We hope you all enjoyed the trip as much as we did! See you on the next trip.

A terrible earthquake struck central Italy at 3.36 this morning, August 24th 2016. We would like to express all our sympathy to all the people who are suffering in Amatrice, Accumoli and other nearby villages. At the same time, we wanted to reassure all our students that, although it might seem relatively close to L'Aquila from a non-Italian viewpoint, the hit area is actually at around 1 hour's drive from here. And, besides that, the geological fault affected by the earthquake is different from the one running underneath L'Aquila. Therefore, as far as this specific earthquake is concerned, it is not strictly related to the city of L'Aquila, although several shakes were clearly felt even here. 

Once again, let us express our condolence to the all the people who lost their beloved in this terrible disaster.