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Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021

Today the UK funding bodies have published the results of the UK’s most recent national research assessment exercise, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.

Research from the Mathematical Institute and the Department of Statistics in Oxford was submitted together under Unit of Assessment 10. Overall, 78% of our submission was judged to be 4* (the highest score available, given for research quality that is world-leading in terms of originality, significance, and rigour).

Fernando Alday and Alain Goriely elected Fellows of the Royal Society

Today Oxford Mathematicians Fernando Alday and Alain Goriely have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS) for their outstanding contributions to science.

Watch the Oxbridge 2022 PDE Conference

The eleventh annual two and a half day conference held alternately in Oxford and Cambridge, and focusing on partial differential equations and analysis, took place this year on 11-13th April in the Mathematical Institute in Oxford.

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