James has won a MPLS Divisional teaching award for his "dedication to teaching within your department in general...and impressive outreach activities for the Mathematical Institute, specifically your work on both the MAT livestream and the Oxford Online Maths Club". The citation also adds that many students had nominated James.
Friday 18th July 2025
Good News
James Munro win Teaching Award 2025
Carles Falcó wins SIAM Student Paper Prize
Carles wins the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) prize for his paper, “A local continuum model of cell-cell adhesion” co-authored with Ruth Baker and José Carrillo.
Matters of the Moment
Latest Research Case Studies
(Case studies only list Oxford Mathematicians, but the full case study gives the names of all collaborators from Oxford and beyond)
New technique enhances predictions of ocean health and carbon cycles - Coralia Cartis
The explosive secret of the squirting cucumber - Derek Moulton and Dominic Vella (see image)
Higher Order Lipschitz Functions In Data Science - Andrew McLeod
Time-irreversibility reveals hidden structure in neural dynamics - Ramón Nartallo-Kaluarachchi, Renaud Lambiotte and Alain Goriely
Cell groups as active droplets: a new perspective on the migration of multicellular communities - Giulia Laura Celora and Mohit Dalwadi
Watts and Wipe-outs: the Science of Timing a Crash-Free Breakaway in the Tour de France - Javier Chico-Vázquez and Ian Griffiths (as featured as a video in last week's Bulletin)
Folding in tension - Marc Suñé
Events in the Department
The Vicky Neale Public Lecture
Wednesday 06 August 2025, 5-6pm, L1
Simon Singh - From Theorems to Serums, From Cryptography to Cosmology … and The Simpsons
Join science writer Simon Singh on a whistle-stop tour through two decades of his bestselling books. 'Fermat’s Last Theorem' looks at one of the biggest mathematical puzzles of the millennium; 'The Code Book' shares the secrets of cryptology; 'Big Bang' explores the history of cosmology; 'Trick or Treatment' asks some hard questions about alternative medicine; and 'The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets' explains how TV writers, throughout the show’s 35-year history, have smuggled in mathematical jokes.
Please email Dyrol to register to attend in person.
The lecture will be broadcast on the Oxford Mathematics YouTube Channel on Wednesday 27 August at 5-6pm and any time after (no need to register for the online version). The Vicky Neale Public Lectures are a partnership between the Clay Mathematics Institute, PROMYS and Oxford Mathematics. The Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures are generously supported by XTX Markets.
Teaching and Learning
New Whitehead Library books - July 2025
Short stories
The 53rd card.
News From Elsewhere in the University
13th Oxford Energy Day 2025: Energy & Data: Opportunities and Challenges for the Energy Transition
The Oxford Energy Day, hosted by the Oxford Energy Network and the Zero Institute, is taking place on Wednesday, 24 September 2025, at the Mathematical Institute. It’s free to attend, including lunch and refreshments.
We are inviting postgraduate students and Early Career Researchers to showcase their research by submitting a research poster. Research from within or across any discipline(s) and at any stage of development is welcome, as long as it is relevant to the conference and its themes.
Register for Energy Day including info about the poster competition
Image: Vincent van Gogh - Man pulling a harrow
Other News
Café π news
Cream Tea Special: fresh scone, Tiptree strawberry jam, rich clotted cream, your choice of hot drink
And a five mile run afterwards.
Only £3.90. Offer ends 31 July
Image: Morgan Weistling - Strawberry Jam
Song of the Week: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
The Reid brothers disliked their contemporaries' music so much that they decided they had to do something different. What they did was smother their sound in feedback and distortion. But underneath the noise, lay this pop classic.