2026 Charles Simonyi Lecture TODAY

Venki Ramakrishnan (University of Cambridge) - Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality

In this lecture Venki Ramakrishnan will discuss with Marcus du Sautoy the fundamental facts and promising approaches to combat ageing, as well as the social and ethical consequences of extending life.

Venki Ramakrishnan works in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Automatic quasiconvexity of homogeneous isotropic rank-one convex integrands
 Guerra, A Kristensen, J (20 Dec 2021) doi:10.48550/arxiv.2112.10563
The Singular Set of Minima of Multiple Integrals
 De Filippis, C Kristensen, J Mingione, G Strong, A (03 Oct 2026) doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.11546
Sharp Higher Integrability Theory, Part I: The $L^p$-norm of the Beurling--Ahlfors transform
 Agazzi, A Astala, K Bañuelos, R Bruno, G Cassese, G Faraco, D Guerra, A Hormozi, M Kirchheim, B Koski, A Kovač, V Kristensen, J Pasqualotto, F Prause, I Saksman, E Šverák, V Székelyhidi, L Tione, R Volberg, A Yang, H (08 Oct 2026) doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.28311

Week 4 Bulletin

It's the Week 4 Student Bulletin!

Somehow, we're halfway through term already. Hope you've enjoyed your time at Oxford so far!

Read on for the latest news, upcoming events and updates from around the Mathematical Institute.

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Classification of strongly non-hyperbolic critical points of planar second-order chemical reaction systems
 Yeung, N Erban, R (05 Oct 2026)
Squirming in viscoplastic fluid
 Taylor-West, J Hogg, A Hewitt, D Physical Review Letters
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