Bistability of architected metamaterials enabled by anti- symmetric bending
 Zhang, S Zhang, Y Vella, D Young, D Materials Horizons

Short stories 2 - Once upon a time

A long time ago, in a distant land called the English summer, you'd often see, in gardens, long tubes, usually made of rubber or plastic. At the end of these tubes, hands would wave the tube about and water might - or might not - gush. Happy days.

2025/26 Careers in Quantitative Finance

We hold a weekly seminar series during Michaelmas Term where we invite speakers from the financial industry to give presentations to our MSc class. Examples of companies include: Nomura, Citadel Securities, NatWest Markets, J.P. Morgan, Qube Research & Technologies, and Deutsche Bank. Many of the companies also hold networking events for our MSc class, which is a good opportunity for students to discuss job and internship opportunities in finance.
2d BF theory coupled to 1d quantum mechanics: The phase space and its quantization
 Moosavian, S Zhou, Y Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics volume 30 issue 5 1349-1418 (2026)

Song of the Week: Jethro Tull - Living in the Past

With a lead singer who spent a lot of time during early gigs wearing an overcoat and standing on one leg playing the flute (he also owned salmon farms), 'Tull' fitted the Prog Rock stereotype perfectly. But like other Prog Rock bands, in-between the concept albums and overlong songs, there was the odd banger such as this.

For the musician - and mathematician - in you, it's written in asymmetric 5/4 time.

Marjorie Watts, Nicholas Li and Yunli Qi win awards

Marjorie Watts (pictured), Nicholas Lai and Yunli Qi have won best poster awards at the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology held in Graz earlier in the month.

Marjorie's poster was titled Accurate noise models and their impact on parameter inference for mathematical models of collective cell behaviours and was co-authored with Carlos Falco and Ruth Baker.

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