Awards, etc.

Adams Prize 2016–17

The Adams Prize is awarded jointly each year by the Faculty of Mathematics and St John’s College to UK-based researchers, under the age of 40, doing first class international research in the Mathematical Sciences. The Prize was named after the mathematician John Couch Adams and commemorates Adams's role in the discovery of the planet Neptune, through calculation of the discrepancies in the orbit of Uranus.

This year’s topic was Statistical analysis of Big Data, and the prize was awarded jointly to:

Professor Graham Cormode, University of Warwick, for contributions to algorithms used in the management and analysis of massive data sets, including the celebrated and widely used 'count-min sketch'; and

Professor Richard Samworth, Statistical Laboratory, for contributions in the areas of nonparametric estimation under qualitative constraints, random projections in feature space, and high-dimensional statistics.

For further information on the Adams Prize see https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize-winners-2016-17-announced.