News
Featuring Our Department, Staff, Students & Alumni
NUS Centre for the Arts, Arts Festival 2008 -
The Singing Professor - Prof Koh Khee Meng
The Straits Times, 14 Sept 2007 -
The winners of this year's
National Science and Technology Awards hail from various disciplines
such as biomedical sciences, IT and
maths. But they share something in common - great aptitude in
science.
The Straits Times, 7 July 2007 - Want to make it big in
animation?
Know your maths!
The Straits Times, 4 July 2007 -
Of Brains and Brawn - Norwegian maths professor
Helmer Aslaksen, 47, chats to Straits Times reporter Elaine Young
about keeping fit, and Sudoku.
The Straits Times, 26 Apr 2007 - French International Student Mr
Francois Delatorre chooses NUS over other universities in France.
He is on the
University Scholars Programme and
a first year undergraduate at the Faculty of Science, majoring in
Applied Mathematics
The Straits Times, 10 Mar 2007 -
Winning the crypto-war, an article by Professor
Harald NIEDERREITER, professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
at NUS
The
Straits Times, 27 Jan 2006 -
Don't leave maths out of the equation, an
article by University Professor
CHONG Chi Tat, Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy,
NUS
The New Paper, 20 Jan 2006 -
A feature on the
interesting electives
offered by NTU, NUS and polytechnics
Today, 23 Nov 2005 - New
engineering-science undergraduate degree programme starting in
August 2006
The
Straits Times, 21 Aug 2005 -
Have you played the popular Japanese puzzle
Sudoku? Learn
how Mathematics can help you solve the puzzles faster: An interview with
Assoc Prof
Helmer ASLAKSEN
The
Business Times and
Lianhe
Zaobao, 29 June 2005 - National University of Singapore and Peking
University sign an MOU to train professionals in financial
engineering and quantitative finance.
The Straits
Times, 24 May 2005 -
featured our graduate
Miss YEO Sze Ling, who earned
her Bachelor's degree (Honours) and a Master's degree from National
University of Singapore (NUS), and who is now into research on coding
mathematics theories and cryptography.
The Straits
Times, 30 April 2005 -
featured Prof
Louis CHEN, Director, Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, who had received the
French government decoration for services
to education.
The Straits Times, 23 April 2005 -
featured Prof
CHONG Chi Tat, Department of Mathematics, providing
one-to-one undergraduate lessons one-to-one undergraduate lessons for GOH Jun Le who is currently studying
in NUS High School.
The Straits
Times, 6 July 2004 -
featured an NUS student
whose
passion for Mathematics leads him to do a second degree.
The
Straits Times, 16 Oct 2003 -
featured Prof
Louis CHEN,
who was elected to head the California-based Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (IMS), a
rare honour for someone outside the United States.
The
Straits Times, 26 Sept 2003 -
featured Prof
Harald NIEDERREITER, Prof
XING Chaoping and Assoc Prof LING San, winners of the
National
Science & Technology Award 2003.
The
Straits Times, 26 June 2003 -
featured Assoc Prof
CHAN Heng Huat,
winner of the
Young Scientist Award (Science & Technology) 2003.
The
Straits Times, 1 Sept 2002 -
featured Prof LAM Lay Yong,
a retired professor of the Department of Mathematics, NUS, for her
contributions to the history of mathematics. Prof LAM won the
Kenneth O. May medal, the highest honour given by the International Commission on the History of
Mathematics once every four years.
The
Straits Times, 23 June 2002 -
more on Prof LAM Lay Yong.....
The
Straits Times, 14 June 2002 -
more on Prof LAMLay Yong......
The
Straits Times, 19 March 2002 -
featured Prof
Louis CHEN, father of the
Chen-Stein
method which played a crucial role in the mapping of the human
genome.
The
Straits Times, 18 Feb 2002 -
featured Malaysian boy WONG Jiang Fung who
made the news when he became a student of the National University of
Singapore at the
ripe old age of 15.
Scroll down for the first report
on him in 1999!
BusinessWorld, 4 Dec 2001 -
featured 72 local and foreign professors, including Prof
KOH Khee Meng,
who converged in Manila recently to pay
homage
to renowned graph theorist
Frank HARARY. His pioneering work in graph theory, an applied branch
of mathematics, has touched on 36 disciplines, including psychology,
economics, social sciences, art and architecture.
The Straits Times, 1 Sept 2000 -
featured Prof
SUN Yeneng, winner of the
National Science & Technology Award
2000.
The
Straits Times, 12 Dec 1999 -
featured Malaysian boy WONG Jiang Fung, 15,
Maths
Whiz, and youngest student at NUS.
The
Straits Times, 2 Sept 1999 -
featured Assoc Prof
CHAN Heng Huat,
winner of the
Young Scientist Award
1999.
The
Straits Times, 17 Sept 1998 -
featured the work on wavelets carried out
by researchers of the Centre for Wavelets, Approximation and Information
Processing (CWAIP). Prof
LEE Seng Luan, Assoc Prof
Wayne M. LAWTON and
Prof
SHEN Zuowei, all from the NUS Mathematics Department, won the
National Science & Technology Award 1998 for their basic mathematical
research on wavelets theory.
News
Featuring Mathematics & its Applications
The Straits Times, 18 Aug 2007
Why Hollywood needs Maths too
BBC, 19 Mar 2007
248-dimension maths puzzle solved - An international team
of mathematicians has detailed a vast complex numerical "structure"
which was described more than a century ago.
Physorg.com, 19 Feb 2007
Computer scientist reveals the
math and science behind blockbuster movies
(Source: Stanford University)
Business
Week, 23 Jan 2006 -
Math will rock your world
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