Research news

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.

Brigitte Stenhouse will appear today on The Forum, broadcast by the BBC World Service, speaking on Mary Somerville: the queen of 19th century science .

Dr Katrine Rogers has been awarded a £38,000 EPSRC research grant for the project Mathematical modelling of the electric potential from cochlear implants for a new diagnosis tool.

With deep sadness the School of Mathematics and Statistics mourns the loss of Professor Uwe Grimm, who died unexpectedly in late October.

Dr Ian Short has been awarded a £375,000 EPSRC New Investigator Award for the project The Farey framework for SL2-tilings.

Congratulations to Michael Ewetola for successfully defending his PhD thesis Droplet evaporation on smooth patterns and securing a postdoctoral research fellowship at University College London.

​Professor June Barrow-Green has been awarded the Royal Society Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture 2021 for her work on the history of mathematics.