Our achievements

Our achievements
Date Achievement
2011 Prof. Angus Macdonald wins Finlaison Medal for substantial international reputation in research and his service to the UK actuarial profession over the last 25 years
2010 Dr Judy Robertson selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society's 2009 Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award for "outstanding contributions to undergraduate education through teaching and innovative use of pioneering technologies in teaching
2009 Award of a £4.7M Science and Innovation Grant to the Maxwell Institute and Strathclyde University, for a Centre for Numerical Algorithms and Intelligent Software.
2008 Prof. Andrew Cairns is awarded the David Garrick Halmstad Prize for the best contribution to actuarial literature published in 2006.
2007 Award of a £3.4M Science and Innovation Grant to the Maxwell Institute for a Centre for Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations.
2006


 Sir John Ball, a former professor of Mathematics in the School and now professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, is knighted.
Prof. Jonathan Sherratt is awarded the Adams Prize by the University of Cambridge for major contributions to several areas of mathematical biology.
Prof. Jonathan Sherratt is awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society for his contribution to mathematical biology and, in particular, the development and analysis of new mathematical models for complex biological processes.
Prof. Howard Waters is awarded the Finlaison Medal of the Institute for Actuaries for "important, profound work in risk theory, life insurance solvency, and in multiple state modelling for long-term sickness benefits and, more recently, for critical illness insurance".
2005 Prof. Angus Macdonald, Prof Howard Waters and Dr Chessman Wekwete are awarded the David Garrick Halmstad Prize for the best contribution to actuarial literature published in 2003.
1994 Prof. John McCutcheon appointed a CBE for services to the Actuarial Profession.
1992 Prof. David Wilkie awarded the Gold Medal by the faculty of Actuaries. Later he is awarded the Gold Medal by the Institute of Actuaries (1995), an Honorary Doctorate of Science by City University, London (1994), an Honorary Doctorate of Mathematics by Waterloo University, Canada (2002), and is appointed CBE (1998).