Mathematical Institute

Crocus DLA Research Experience Placement Opportunities (University of Reading)

Applications are now open for this year’s Crocus DLA Research Experience Placement (REP) opportunities for current university students with an interest in environmental sciences.

Summer Graduate and Internship Fair 2025

The Summer Graduate and Internship Fair 2025 is now taking place at the Maths Institute!

The fair, which takes place on Tuesday 10 June from 14:30, offers Oxford students, researchers, and alumni the chance to meet a diverse range of recruiters who are offering full-time jobs, internships, and other opportunities starting this summer, as well as vacancies that will be opening for the 2025-2026 intake.

More info at https://lnkd.in/dMiANf4W.

Song of the Week: Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

Over five years ago, when the wonderful Vicky Neale instigated and ran the Bulletin, your now self-appointed Song of the Week Editor suggested the odd song or poem to accompany the maths. Those suggestions don't appear in the full Song of the Week list (links now fixed), but to celebrate - or commiserate - Song of the Week at 5, here is the first ever suggestion.

Let Sandy Denny break your heart.

Cafe π news

New in Café π - Filled Croissants

Cheese & Tomato (V) - £3.25

Cheese & Ham - £3.50

Image: Mark Rothko - No. 13 (White, Red on Yellow)

Responsible modelling and the ethics of mathematics for decision support

Mathematical models are used to inform decisions across many sectors including climate change, finance, and epidemics. But as Erica Thompson explains in this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture, models are not perfect representations of the real world – they are partial, uncertain and often biased. What, then, does responsible modelling look like? And how can we apply this ethical framework to new AI modelling methods?

Editorial: Capillarity and elastocapillarity in biology

Hu, D Kim, H Vella, D Interface Focus volume 15 issue 2 (16 May 2025)

June 2025

Dynamic Sparse No Training: Training-Free Fine-tuning for Sparse LLMs

Zhang, Y Zhao, L Lin, M Sun, Y Yao, Y Han, X Tanner, J Liu, S Ji, R (13 Oct 2023) http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08915v3

Season 10 Episode 3

Complex systems approaches to 21st century challenges: Introduction to the Special Issue

Bednar, J del Rio-Chanona, M Farmer, J Kaszowska-Mojsa, J Lafond, F Mealy, P Pangallo, M Pichler, A Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 107049 (May 2025)

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