Research news

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. 

Professor June Barrow-Green has been invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2022 in Saint Petersburg.

Professor Robin Wilson has published his 51st book Topics in Algorithmic Graph Theory, which he edited together with Lowell Beineke (Purdue) and Martin Charles Golumbic (Haifa), and which is published by Cambridge University Press.

Dr. Maha Moustafa has completed her PhD in statistics at the Open University and secured a lectureship at Coventry University.

Post-doctoral research associate Yasushi Nagain has secured a lectureship in Shinshu University, Matsumoto City, Japan, starting April 2021.

Brigitte Stenhouse has been awarded the International Commission on the History of Mathematics 2021 Montucla Prize for her article Mary Somerville’s early contributions to the circulation of differential calculus, published in Historia Mathematica in 2020. 

PhD student Alison Maidment's recent paper A Man Who Has Infinite Capacity for Making Things Go: Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873-1956), co-authored with Mack McCartney and published in The British Journal for the History of Mathematics (2019), has made the list of 'Notable Writings' in the book  Best Writings on Mathematics 2020 by Mircea Pitik.