Mathematical Institute Bulletin

Congratulations to Emmanuel. 

Oxford Mathematics now has 34 Fellows of the Royal Society among its current and retired members: Fernando Alday, John Ball, Bryan Birch, Martin Bridson, Philip Candelas, Marcus du Sautoy, Artur Ekert, Alison Etheridge, Alain Goriely, Ian Grant, Ben Green, Roger Heath-Brown, Nigel Hitchin, Ehud Hrushovski, Ioan James, Dominic Joyce, Jon Keating, Frances Kirwan, Terry Lyons, Philip Maini, Vladimir Markovic, James Maynard, Jim Murray, John Ockendon, Roger Penrose, Jonathan Pila, Graeme Segal, Endre Süli, Martin Taylor, Ulrike Tillmann, Nick Trefethen, Andrew Wiles, Alex Wilkie, and Emmanuel himself, of course.

James Newton is one of the recipients of a Clay Research Award 2024 for his joint work with Jack Thorne (Cambridge) in proving the existence of the symmetric power functorial lift for Hilbert modular forms.

The prize is intended to recognise an excellent thesis that goes beyond the level normally expected for the award of a research degree at Oxford, making a significant contribution to the field of study.

Giulia Celora for her numerous significant and substantial contributions to model development and investigation for cyclic hypoxia, in particular including data-driven mechanistic mathematical modelling grounded in Bayesian inference complementing experimental work and leading to insights that would not have been possible otherwise.

Satoshi Hayakawa, for significant and novel contributions including ingenious and beautiful proofs for nontrivial results motivated by important problems, and presenting a first generally applicable algorithm for kernel quadrature with convex weights and fast (spectral) convergence, with respect to the decay of the spectrum of the kernel function.

Jared Duker Lichtman, for his groundbreaking contributions, originality, and technical strength, resolving the Erdős primitive set conjecture; studying problems of primes in arithmetic progressions to large moduli; and, with Joni Teräväinen, on the Hardy–Littlewood–Chowla conjecture on average.

The winners will be receiving equal shares of the £1,000 prize.

You can now dip in to Tara's recent Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture which was premiered on YouTube last night. Premiered sounds pretentious, but we have a loyal following who tune in for them and then chat among themselves via the live chat.

We invite all members of the LGBT+ Network (academic & administrative staff, post-grads, role models and allies!) to join us at the march on 8th June.

If you (and your colleagues) want to be part of the Parade and accompany our LGBT+ Staff Network banner, then please let Amedeo Minichino (@email) or Jules Salomone-Sehr (@email) know so that we can inform the Oxford Pride organising committee about our numbers.

We will gather from 9.45 at the Radcliffe Camera. The Parade will leave promptly at 10.30am to arrive at the Castle Quarter about 11.30am. In front of All Souls main gate, you will find our group leaders, Jules and Amedeo. You will recognise them as they will have the network banner (and some t-shirts for people to wear in the parade).

We encourage everyone to bring their own banners and signs that represent LGBT+ networks/groups within their own colleges, departments, divisions or university societies. Also, dogs on leads are welcome in the parade, but please be aware that the parade will have a number of drumming bands and there’ll be loud music.

Just a reminder that from May 14th Transfer of Status and Confirmation of Status forms are now to be found online and can be viewed through Self Service. DPhil students should now complete the appropriate form to initiate the process.

Take a look at the GSO forms webpage for more information. Don't worry if you have already started completing paper copies of the forms, these will still be accepted for the current deadline.

If you have any questions then contact Rosie at @email

Image: Mary Cassatt, Lydia Reading the Morning Paper (No. 1), 1878-79

Imperial have a teaching fellow position in applied mathematics, closing on 9th June.

Full details

Waffle on every Wednesday in the café. 

8:30 to 10:30 am.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, Richard Wagner revolutionised opera which he saw as a total work of art with music part of a wider visual, poetic and, especially, dramatic experience. 'Das Rheingold' is the first of the four operas in his 'Ring Cycle'. This prelude describes the River Rhine, calm and majestic.