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Helping prostate cancer patients makeinformed decisions
One in six men in the UK will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lives:47,000 men are given this news each year. More than half discover their cancer at an earlystage, before it has spread.
The Faculty's Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication has collaborated withcancer researchers across Cambridge to develop a new online tool – described by onepatients' group as 'game-changing' – to present the statistics on treatment outcomes. It helpsgive men with early-stage prostate cancer, and their doctors, a clear personalised picture ofthe potential risks and benefits of the different treatment options open to them.
Faculty insights: new Royal Society Fellows
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Three Faculty memberselected to Royal SocietyThree members of the Faculty have beenelected as new Fellows of the Royal Society.Professors Caucher Birkar, Peter Haynes andRichard Jozsa have been recognised for theirsubstantial contributions to mathematics andtheoretical physics.
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Exploring the future of quantumcomputationProfessor Richard Jozsa is widely regarded as afounder of the field of quantum computation andquantum information. We talked to him todiscover more about the extraordinaryconsequences of the link between informationand the laws of physics.
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Into the stratosphere: modellingweather and climate changeProfessor Peter Haynes uses mathematicalmodels to study dynamical processes in theEarth's atmosphere and oceans, and has madepioneering contributions to the field. We askedhim more about his work, including exploring therole of the stratosphere in weather patterns andclimate change.
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Algebraic geometry and birationalmapsProfessor Caucher Birkar first hit internationalheadlines in 2018 when he was awarded theFields Medal for his contributions to algebraicgeometry. This article, revisited from last year,gives an introduction to his ground-breakingwork on the classification of mathematicalobjects called algebraic varieties.
High Energy Physics: the frontiers of discovery
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Stretching the Standard ModelDr Maria Ubiali works at the interface betweentheoretical and experimental particle physics.We talked to her to learn more about what mightlie beyond the Standard Model, and howmachine learning can help us discover thestructure of the proton.
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Predicted particle confirmed bynew discoveryA new particle, discovered at CERN earlier thisyear, confirms theoretical predictions by theDepartment of Applied Mathematics andTheoretical Physics' Professor Ron Horgan andcolleagues at the University of Glasgow. Theresearch consolidates existing particle theory butalso opens the door to new physics.
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Honouring Professor Anne-ChristineDavisIn May we hosted a conference in honour of ProfessorAnne-Christine Davis, the first female professor appointedin the Faculty, who retired at the beginning of the year.The event celebrated Davis' long and pioneering career intheoretical physics, her work supporting women inscience, and her contribution to cosmology.
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Synchronised swimmingTiny green algae might seem unlikely to playa starring role in a mathematics department.Yet these organisms' penchant forsynchronisation can help fluid mechanicsresearchers shed light on questions fromevolution to the inner workings of the humanbody. Ray Goldstein, SchlumbergerProfessor of Complex Physical Systems,explains.
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Mathematics and democracyIn 2011 Geoffrey Grimmett, Professor ofMathematical Statistics in the Department ofPure Mathematics and MathematicalStatistics, was approached by the EuropeanConstitutional Affairs Committee to look atmethods for allocating the seats of theEuropean Parliament to Member States.Eight years on the question is still just asrelevant.
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