Research news

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.

Professor Kevin McConway is the guest speaker in the latest edition of the podcast Stats + Stories speaking on Sounding human when talking about statistics. This podcast series is produced by the American Statistical Association and Miami University, Ohio.

Congratulations to James Tuite for receiving an LMS Early Career Fellowship, for winning the AOUG Baroness Lee of Asheridge Award for Maths, Computing and Technology, and for securing a Research Associate position in Mathematical Sciences at the Open University.

The Open University's BBC Radio 4 co-production More or Less has been named the winner in the "Statistical excellence in coronavirus reporting" category of the Royal Statistical Society's Statistical Excellence in Journalism Awards 2021.

Professor Robin Wilson is to give one of the invited public lectures for the Eighth European Congress of Mathematics (20–26 June 2021, Portorož, Slovenia) on European Mathematics: A History in 200 Stamps.