Professor Jon Keating appointed new Chair of Heilbronn Institute

Professor Jon Keating has been appointed Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, which celebrates its ten-year anniversary in October this year. The Heilbronn Institute is a major national centre for mathematics research. A partnership between several universities and Government, it brings together high-calibre mathematicians from various disciplines to conduct research into key areas of mathematics. Bristol is the principal partnering university and the Institute's main home is here. Past and present contributors to the Institute's work have included many past and present distinguished mathematicians, including 10 Fellows of the Royal Society. The Institute currently has around 44 core members, including established researchers on secondment from universities throughout the UK and over 20 Postdoctoral Research Fellows. Members' fields of expertise include topics in number theory, algebraic geometry, algebra, combinatorics, probability, quantum information, computational statistics and statistical learning.