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Today, advances in science and technology increasingly depend on cross-disciplinary work: research may draw on the physical sciences, biology, medicine, computing and engineering. The essential tool that underpins it all is mathematics.
The Institute for Mathematical Sciences brings together leading mathematicians from different disciplines from around the college and, since its founding in 2004, has become a leading centre for interdisciplinary research with a significant mathematical content.
Research programmes normally run for five years. The first programmes spanned emerging areas in finance, geometry and string theory, biostatistics, quantum information theory, turbulence, multiscale phenomena and biology. More are being planned already.
In addition to the core research, the Institute also prioritises communication and outreach, running conferences, workshops and other activities, and mathematical outreach programmes for schools.
‘The success of the Institute could not have been achieved without the support of the David and Elaine Potter Foundation. Their critical founding gift enabled us to provide seed corn money for the initial programmes whilst they developed independent funding. Without it, we simply would not have been able to attract the initial group of talented and high-flying postdoctoral fellows to the Institute ...’
www.imperial.ac.uk/mathsinstitute
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