Mathematics Department PhD Poster Competition 2015

Tom Hockenhull & Marco Marengon: overall winners for their poster 'Invariants and Categorification'

Congratulations to the winners of the annual Mathematics Department PhD Poster Competition 2015, which took place on the evening of 24 April 2015.

Every year the Mathematics Department organises a Departmental 'Postgraduate Forum', an evening event bringing together staff, final year undergraduates and current postgraduates. It’s a great opportunity for the undergraduate and MSc students interested in furthering their research to find out more about studying a PhD at Imperial, and to give them an idea of what they might do if they went on to continue their studies here.

The event also focuses on the annual PhD poster competition, where the postgraduate students have an opportunity to present their research visually on posters, displayed around the room, and to discuss their work in more depth in an informal setting.

We’d like to thank everyone who made this year's event a success, and to congratulate this year’s winners of the annual Mathematics Department PhD Poster Competition 2015!

Best poster overall + Best Pure Mathematics section
Prize of £500
Tom Hockenhull & Marco Marengon
Poster: Invariants and Categorification

Best Applied Mathematics & Mathematical Physics section
Prize of £200
Radu Cimpeanu
Poster: How to make a splash: Droplet impact and liquid film applications in aerodynamics

Best Mathematical Finance section
Prize of £200
Géraldine Bouveret
Poster: A backward algorithm for the quantile hedging of Bermudan options

Best Statistics section
Prize of £200
Shijing Si
Poster: A Hierarchical Model for the Age of White Dwarfs

Posters can be seen on the Postgraduate Forum.