Research news

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.

The School of Mathematics and Statistics has achieved an Athena Swan Silver Award in recognition of its efforts towards ensuring gender equality.

Grahame Erskine has secured a £24,000 grant from the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences to hold the International Workshop on Optimal Network Topologies 2023.

James Tuite was awarded the Springer Best Student Presentation Award at the 8th Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics held in Puducherry, India on 10-12 February 2022.