Digital innovation and Queen’s honours: News from the College
Here’s a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
From the grand final of a student innovation challenge, to royal recognition of a professor’s contributions to haematology, here is some quick-read news from across the College.
Digital innovation
After an intense 7-week programme of workshops, mentoring and business coaching, 25 teams, divided into 5 themed tracks, pitched to expert panels in the competition’s heats in March. The winner of each track was awarded £10,000 and is now competing to win the £20,000 Grand Prize, announced on 26 June. All finalists’ pitches can be viewed on the Enterprise Lab website.
The public can also vote for their favourite semi-finalist pitch to win the £500 People’s Prize.
Growing network pains
It was assumed that networks grow in a fixed manner over time, so that a larger future network would still reflect the dynamics of the earlier, smaller network. Now, researchers at Imperial have shown that this is not the case.
The team say scientists will need to refine their understanding of how the future evolution of networks is predicted, and are working to identify patterns of change as networks grow.
Read more in Physical Review Research: ‘Identifying time dependence in network growth’
Prestigious maths prize
Dr Caraiani’s research interests include classical and p-adic Langlands programs, Shimura varieties, and arithmetic geometry. In addition to receiving the EMS Prize, Dr Caraiani will speak in a mini symposium entitled: A journey from pure to applied mathematics, organized by European Women in Mathematics.
Read more on the European Mathematical Society website.
Birthday honours
Professor Bain was awarded Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (General Division), "for significant services to medicine, and to medical education, particularly haematology".
The Honours List was announced on 8 June by the Governor-General of Australia, David Hurley, who commented: “This list recognises a group of outstanding Australians who have made a contribution to their community, to Australia globally or domestically. Their efforts have been noted by their peers, they’ve been nominated and assessed independently as worthy of recognition.”
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