Mathematical Institute Bulletin

We are very pleased to announce that the annual Awards for Excellence scheme is now open. The scheme enables the department to recognise exceptional performance during the period April 2025 – April 2026 with a monetary award.

‘Exceptional performance’ is classed as:

1. Those who performed well in all key areas of their job, and
2. Consistently demonstrated outstanding performance, significantly above that which might reasonably have been expected of them.

Detailed information on the scheme is available here 

Image: 'Pluto' who first appeared in the 1931 Disney animation 'The Moose Hunt'.

On Virtual Representations of Finite Chevalley Groups in Defining Characteristic - Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT) 

Wednesday 20 May at 1600 in L4. 

More information

All over the globe, and maybe somewhere out in space, students are revising - or maybe in a few cases 'vising'. We asked our maths undergraduates how they went about it.

Spoiler alert: this remains an open problem.

Including those below

Full list here

The ZERO Institute (Zero-carbon Energy Research Oxford) brings together researchers from across the University of Oxford to tackle questions surrounding zero-carbon energy systems, and to accelerate multi-disciplinary research on the zero-carbon transition.

They run a range of events including a hackathon and a summer reception. Full details

Explore an exhibition of contemporary sculpture by 13 artists from around the world in the Worcester College gardens. The Storytellers is inspired by the outdoor Shakespeare plays of the Buskins, Oxford’s longest-running dramatic society.

The exhibition runs until 5 July: University members and alumni are welcome to visit daily between 11.30 am and 5 pm.

Looking for a graduate job or internship this summer? Don’t miss the Summer Graduate and Internship Fair on Tuesday 9 June, 14:30-17:00 at the Careers Service.

Meet recruiters offering jobs, internships, and graduate opportunities across a range of sectors, and chat to Oxford careers advisers about your next steps.

Green Templeton College are offering discounted tickets for mathematicians at their ball on July 3rd.

The discount is £40 off the usual price. More information (SSO).

Image: Thomas Cantrell Dugdale - The Arrival of the Jarrow Marchers

First recorded and co-written by "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins in 1956, this song got Nina's treatment nine years later. 

You'd better believe her.