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Matthew Kwan successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Probabilistic reasoning in combinatorics". Congratulations!

Christopher Salahub, Master's student in mathematics, presented his work "How to bias a jury" at the 2018 Meet the Talent event of the ETH Zurich Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme.

The 2018 Isaac Newton Prize For Early Career Researchers has been awarded to Dr Dominik Gruber for his preprint "Small cancellation theory over Burnside groups".

We are delighted to announce that Peter Bühlmann and Rahul Pandharipande are two out of ten ETH Zurich researchers that have receive a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Their projects are funded with around 2 to 3 million Euro each.

In 1966 the start of a new era in number theory was marked by Alan Baker, who has died aged 78, joining the department of pure mathematics at Cambridge University. With a cascade of papers, he had published solutions to a series of problems from a line of inquiry that went back to the third-century mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria. On the basis of this exceptional work, in 1970 Alan was awarded the Fields medal, one of the discipline’s highest distinctions.