> Bath awards further funds to BUC

Following a successful launch of the BUC platform of research collaboration, the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Internationalisation, Professor Colin Grant, has awarded a renewal of the inital BUC start-up grant. This time, the value of the award has been increased to GBP 15,000 and will contribute towards BUC 6 - 10 events in collaboration with the Mexican institutions of Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT). Plans are already underway to develop BUC meetings under the remit of the new funding with general headings of:

> Dual sabbatical completed

PhD student Sandra Palau Calderon and Associate Professor Victor Rivero joined the Department of Mathematics as members of Prob-L@B from October 2014. Normally based in CIMAT, they both stayed for one year in Bath to visit Professor Andreas Kyprianou, completing thier viist at the end of semester in 2015.

> Bath-UNAM exchange agreement

The Univeristy of Bath and UNAM have signed a formal agreement that allows for a two-way exchange of masters students between the Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas (Applied Mathematics Research Institute). The first student to take advantage of this new agreement, Ms Lizbeth Peñaloza Velasco, arrived in Bath on the 27th of January 2016 to begin taking courses in the second semester of the 2015-2016 academic year.

> Newton success for Bath and CIMAT

Andreas Kyprianou (Bath) and Juan Carlos Pardo (CIMAT) have been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship, enabling collaboration between their respective research groups over three years. The award provides substantial funds to allow travel of members of members of the probability research group in CIMAT and members of Prob-L@B in Bath.

> Bath builts links with Mexico

Members of the department of Mathematical Sciences at Bath visited Mexico as part of a University delegation from 18-26 April 2015. Andreas Kyprianou, Paul Milewski, Susie Douglas, Kirill Cherednichenko, Karim Anaya-Izqueirdo and Gavin Shaddick represented the different research and educational interests of the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

> Bath awarded funds for BUC

The Pro-Vice Chancellor for Internationalisation, Professor Colin Grant, has awarded a start-up grant of GBP 12,000 towards the workshop series in collaboration with the Mexican institutions of Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT).