Research news

Dan Rust and collaborators have been awarded a £20,000 Isaac Newton Institute Network Support grant for The Grimm Network in Aperiodic Order. 

Ivan Sudakow and Sergei Petrovskii (Leicester) have been awarded a £20,000 grant from the Isaac Newton Institute to develop the Mathematics of Mass Extinctions research network.

Welcome to new postdoctoral researcher Sam Cameron who will be working with Elsen Tjhung on Elsen's EPSRC-funded research project Thermodynamics of growing active and living matter.

The Alliance for Data Science Professionals has launched the Data Science Professional certificate which together with the Advanced Data Science Professional certificate offer two accreditation levels for those working in data science.

The School of Mathematics and Statistics supports an annual Student research bursaries programme. 

Kaustubh Adhikari's recent paper Neanderthal introgression in SCN9A impacts mechanical pain sensitivity, published in Communications Biology, suggests that individuals with certain Neanderthal variants in a gene are more sensitive to pain.

Congratulations to Ivan Sudakow who has secured a Research in Groups project on Exploring scaling of mass extinction events for climate tipping point modelling at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh.

Congratulations to Robert Brignall who with colleagues has been awarded a mini-workshop on Permutations patterns at Oberwolfach.

Congratulations to June Barrow-Green who (with Sarah Hart) has been awarded a four-month programme on the Modern History of Mathematics to be held at the Isaac Newton Institute from January to April 2025. 

Congratulations to Gustavo Rodrigues Ferreira for securing first a London Mathematical Society Early Career Fellowship at Imperial College London and then a postdoctoral research position at Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona.