Research news

Cathy Smith (PI), Vinay Kathotia (Co-I), and collaborators have been successful in their £25,000 bid to the Royal Society for the research project The intersection of mathematics, computing, statistics, and data science as part of the Mathematical Futures programme.

Princeton University Press have released new editions of Jeremy Gray's texts Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography and Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics. 

Congratulations to Elsen Tjhung who has been awarded a five-year EPSRC Open Fellowship Plus of £1,009,749 for his research project Thermodynamics of growing active and living matter.

Research student Elizabeth Kimber has won the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics New Researcher Award 2022.

Professor June Barrow-Green spoke at the virtual International Congress for Mathematicians 2022 on George Birkhoff’s forgotten manuscript and his programme for dynamics.

The results of the REF 2021 are out with 95% of Open University research in mathematical sciences judged to be internationally excellent or world leading.

Congratulations to Katherine Staden who has been awarded a three-year EPSRC Fellowship of £300,374 for her research project Graph decompositions via probability and designs.

PhD student Mahfuzur Khokan was awarded the best trainee poster award at the European Mathematical Genetics Meeting 2022.

Category 12 Brewing has used mathematical artwork of Uwe Grimm and colleague Michael Baake (Bielefeld) for their beer Bourbon Vanilla Quantum. 

Kaustubh Adhikari has received a RAMP Outreach Innovation Award of £5,000 for the project Fallacies with statistics: misunderstandings in a pandemic, to be developed with PhD student Soumya Paria.