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By Birgit Baustädter Christian Elsholtz has made it into the academic conversation in recent months with a mathematical "joke.

The number of people who live past the age of 100 has been on the rise for decades , up to nearly half a million people worldwide. There are, however, far fewer "supercentenarians," people who live to age 110 or even longer. The oldest living person, Jeanne Calment of France, was 122 when she died in 1997; currently, the world's oldest person is 118-year-old Kane Tanaka of Japan.

Next week, the first European Girls' Olympiad in Informatics will take place in Zurich. The competition, which will have around 160 participants from 43 countries, is being organised by ETH students, who also came up with the original idea and are the driving force behind the event.

When it comes to the art of quilting, determining the feasibility and order of steps in advanced patterns can be notoriously complicated - and frustrating.

By Christoph Pelzl Using the visual cortex as a model in the human brain, the research group led by ERC-award-winner Thomas Pock has developed new mathematical models and algorithms as the basis for faster and more intelligent image processing programs.

£3.5M programme will combine theory, modelling, data and computation to improve our understanding of deep learning, making it more accountable and transparent.

O    Mathematics have a major role to play in responding to pressing environmental issues, including global warming, species extinctions, extreme natural events, and pollution.

Happiness is different for everyone in ways that scientists don't yet understand, but smartphone app The Happiness Project is helping to build a better picture of what makes us happy, says Honorary Associate Professor Robb Rutledge (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology). Most people would like to be happier.

Revealed in an article published in the journal Chaos on 3 May, of which Ralph G. Andrzejak, head of the Nonlinear Time Series Analysis Group, is the author.

Pioneering scholar talks Stigler's Law, French lotteries and statistical history At any given university, statisticians aren't usually at the top of the list of library visitors.

By Beate Mosing Students think: "Mathematics has got nothing to do with my life." Wrong! Professor Peter Grabner on the role of mathematics in everyday life - in bank transfers, weather trends and so on.

To be world chess champion - that was the plan when he was just eight years old. Although Gustav Holzegel did not achieve his aim, he can still be satisfied.

Stanford statisticians and Washington Post data scientists build more honest prediction models A new statistical model built on Stanford research generates more nuanced predictions for complicated events. The Washington Post ran this model during the 2020 presidential election and plans to use it for future elections.

Recerca A team of the University of Barcelona and the Computer Vision Center ( CVC ) have carried out CLOTH3D, the first 3D synthetic dataset at a large scale aimed at the development of deep learning to simulate clothes on different body types.

Spread joy this festive season by dividing your Christmas cake into equal slices and keeping it moist between servings.

Leo Goodman, professor emeritus of sociology and statistics, died at the age of 92. (Photo courtesy of the Goodman family) Leo Goodman, whose pioneering statistical analysis revolutionized the study of poverty, inequality and other social phenomena, died of a COVID-19-related lung infection on Dec.

Spread joy this festive season by dividing your Christmas cake into equal slices and keeping it moist between servings.

Improved use of machine learning can double throughput of real-time information filters Rice University researchers have discovered a more efficient way for social media companies to keep misinformation from spreading online using  probabilistic filters trained with artificial intelligence.

Four researchers from the University of Glasgow have received frontier research funding grants from the European Research Council.

Mathematics performance has significantly improved for year 5 pupils in England since 2015 but in year 9 science results have significantly declined, report UCL researchers who have analysed England's performance in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. The 2019 National Report for England, written by researchers from the UCL Institute of Education, was funded by the Department for Education.

Second funding phase for CRC in chemistry - Heidelberg to become location for transregional consortium in mathematics With one collaborative research centre in chemistry and participation in a CRC/Tr

DFG funds -Mathematics of Experiment- with approximately nine million euros The German Research Foundation (DFG) will be funding a new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) at the University of Götting

Last week saw Sorbonne University and the University of Sydney hold a joint virtual workshop on Quantum AI.