Spring updates from the Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics
Catch up on the latest news and activity from the Department.
Academics in the Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics have been sharing their expertise at a number of events this Spring:
- Hélyette Geman was an invited panellist at Chatham House to discuss The Future of Extractive Industries. The event was held at Chatham House on the 30 April 2019.
- Sarah Hart was the invited Mathematics expert on Channel 4’s "Child Genius" programme, broadcast in May 2019. Sarah also chaired a panel on Symmetry and asymmetry in mathematics, music and poetry, as part of Birkbeck Arts week on 24 May, with pianist Iain Burnside and poet Fran Lock.
- Stephen Wright visited the Reserve Bank of India in February 2019, as the first non-Indian academic to be awarded an RBI Visiting Fellowship. He plans to complete the project, with the publication of a working paper "The Indian savings miracle and its implications for monetary policy" and a presentation to the newly created Monetary Policy Committee of India, in November 2019.