The MSc programme in Mathematical and Computational Finance has been ranked as the #1 financial mathematics/quantitative finance MSc programme in the United Kingdom in the 2025 QuantNet Ranking of the Best UK Quantitative Programmes.
Image: Emanuel de Witte - Courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange
Come to L1 at 4pm to watch our graduate students battle it out in a fiercely friendly manner to show who can best explain their work in 180 seconds (or less) with the help of just one slide.
Come along and see what's going on.
This clip is from Gábor Domokos' excellent recent Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture on the soft cell. You can watch the full lecture here.
The MPLS Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) Awards are now open for nominations. These awards recognise staff and students in MPLS who have gone above and beyond in their efforts to advance ED&I within our communities.
Talking of which Nathan Creighton is our new EDI Fellow. So for all EDI, Nathan is the go-to guy.
With over 50 years as a club for staff, postgraduates, alumni, and retired staff, Cherwell Archers announces Beginner Sessions for Trinity Term.
We welcome all levels of expertise, but to register for Beginner Sessions, please contact the Field Captain, Jeremy Hyde: @email We charge a small fee for Beginner Sessions.
Sunday mornings, 10:00 to 12:00, Balliol College’s Sports Field
Image: Robin Hood Archery Tournament from the 1973 Disney movie
St Hilda’s College invites applications for the post of Stipendiary Lecturer in Applied Mathematics (3 hours) from 1 October 2025 on a part-time basis for one year with possibility of renewal.
New Salad Bar Menu + Meal Deal: From 2nd June, new salad bar menu with more choices including sweetcorn & black bean, bulgur wheat & balsamic beetroot, butterbean & corn, vegetable pasta, pickled watermelon, cucumber, feta and more.
Any salad (salad bar or salad box) + any drink for only £5.40.
Neal Street Rewards: our new loyalty stamp card. Collect stamps in our app - buy 9 salad bowls, get your 10th free.
Image: Ismail al-Sheikhly - Watermelon Sellers
Supergroup. Ah yes, a bunch of big stars get together only to find they don't like each other. Except in Cream's case they already knew they didn't like each other, at least in the case of Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce.
Cream didn't last long, but they recorded some good stuff including this late song written by Eric Clapton and Beatle George Harrison (with Ringo Star adding the vital line about swans). One for guitarists.