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DCU student wins 'best undergraduate' award from RIA

Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy, Hamilton 2011 speaker Professor Edward Witten , Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Ben Quigley, DCU.

Ben Quigley, 4th year student on the BSc in Applicable Mathematics degree, has been awarded a Hamilton Award by the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.  Nominated by his lecturers in DCU's School of Mathematical Sciences, Ben received the award for 'best undergraduate mathematics student in the penultimate year of study'.

Ben is in the first cohort of students on the recently established B.Sc. in Applicable Mathematics. This degree is aimed at students with a broad interest in mathematics and its modern applications in such diverse areas as optimisation, communications and biology.