School of Mathematics, University of Manchester

The School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester is one of the largest mathematics departments in the United Kingdom, with around 80 academic staff and an undergraduate intake of roughly 400 a year (including students studying mathematics with a minor in another subject) and another 200 postgraduate students. The school was formed in 2004 by the merger of the mathematics departments of University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and the Victoria University of Manchester (VUM). In July 2007 the school moved from the Mathematics Tower into a purpose-designed building – the first three floors of the Alan Turing Building – on Upper Brook Street.

The current head of the school is Peter Duck. The school is divided, mainly for the purposes of teaching administration, into three groups: Pure Mathematics headed by Mark Kambites, Applied Mathematics headed by Oliver Jensen, and Probability and Statistics headed by Goran Peskir. The Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences (MIMS) is a unit of the school focusing on the organising of mathematical colloquia and conferences, and research visitors. MIMS is headed by Nick Higham FRS, who is also Director of Research. Other high-profile mathematicians at Manchester include Sir Martin Taylor FRS and Jeff Paris (Fellow of the British Academy)

Since its formation, the school has made some influential appointments including the topologist Viktor Buchstaber (a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and model theorist Alex Wilkie FRS. Numerical analyst Jack Dongarra, famous as one of the authors of LINPACK, was appointed in 2007 as Turing Fellow. In the autumn of 2007 another corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Albert Shiryaev was appointed to a 20% chair. Shiryaev is famous for his work on probability theory (he was a student of Kolmogorov) and for his work on financial mathematics.

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