Mathematicians receive millions
Four of the grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation's mathematics programme will go to KTH this year. One researcher from abroad will be recruited as a visiting professor at KTH, and three mathematics researchers will receive postdoctoral positions abroad.
The Foundation's mathematics programme has a total budget of SEK 650 million and will run until 2029. The research at KTH Royal Institute of Technology that received this year's support includes numerical analysis, probability theory, chaos models and statistical models for complex data sets.
Adrianna Gillman , Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA will come to KTH as a visiting professor with Anna-Karin Tornberg , Professor of Numerical Analysis, as host.
Gillman’s research project at KTH is linked to the fact that computer simulations have become an essential tool in validating physical models and developing new technologies. The project will focus on developing fast solvers for simulating many particles in Stokes flow, which is a type of fluid flow.
The aim of the project is to reduce the computational cost so that accurate simulations involving more particles can be conducted aiding practitioners and pushing the boundaries of what is considered possible with computer simulations.
Three doctoral students, Federica Milinanni , Sven Sandfeldt and Danai Deligeorgaki , receive grants for postdoctoral positions at universities abroad.
Federica Milinanni will conduct research in probability theory, which is mathematical tool for analysing random events. The aim of the project is to study and design more efficient algorithms for calculating probabilities using the theory of large deviations.
Sven Sandfeldt's research project is about dynamical systems and mathematical models of chaotic phenomena. Examples of the systems that could be modeled include weather, population growth, the spread of disease, and the movement of celestial bodies.
Sandfeldt's project deals with extracting information about the system's dynamics from its symmetries.
The main focus of Danai Deligeorgakis's research project is the combinatorics of statistical models that capture relationships between discrete random variables, with applications to algebraic statistics.
Innovative statistical models will contribute to the development of more efficient methods for analysing and understanding complex data sets. There are countless applications: biology, medicine to data processing at large internet companies and mathematical phylogenetics.
In total, 16 mathematicians will receive SEK 35 million Swedish crowns in funding for their research through the mathematics programme this year.As in the past, it is the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Vetenskapsakademien will evaluate the candidates nominated by Swedish universities.
Text: Christer Gummeson ( gummeson@kth.se )