Sara van de Geer was invited by the Abel Prize Committee to give an Abel Prize lecture in honour of the 2024 Abel Prize winner Michel Talagrand.

On 13 May, Professor Mikaela Iacobelli gave her inaugural lecture entitled: "Challenges and Breakthroughs in the Mathematics of Plasmas". She has been an associate professor at the Department since April 2023.

Pedro Abdalla Teixeira successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Non-convex optimization in networks and high-dimensional covariance estimation". Congratulations!

Valentin Bosshard successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Lagrangian cobordisms in Liouville manifolds". Congratulations!

Cynthia Bortolotto successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Distribution problems in analysis and number theory". Congratulations!