All department members are invited to nominate graduate students for their contributions to the department this academic year (2025/26).
Any graduate student in mathematics may be nominated by completing this form by 5 p.m. on Friday 4 September 2026.
Image: three Lady Margaret Hall students punting (college in background). Date unknown but c1900?
The World Cup is almost here and everyone has an opinion about likely winners. But being mathematicians, we have insisted on looking at the data, and we think we have found the secret to predicting results.
Josh Bull is our analyst in the studio.
That Robin Wilson, he doesn't half go on.
To infinity in fact, the topic of Robin's eighteenth and final talk on the equations that made mathematics. With an irritating little paradox to whet your appetite below and the full talk here.
Mathematical constructions for minimal surfaces (soap films) - Nicolaos Kapouleas
18 June at 5.15 p.m., Balliol College
Nominations are now open to recognise staff and students in MPLS who have gone above and beyond in their efforts to advance Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within your communities.
Find out more and submit a nomination online.
Deadline: Wednesday 17 June 2026
A reminder that there's lots of training for early career researchers and DPhils from the Division, ranging from how to collaborate to preparing to finish your thesis.
Image: William Blake - Dante running from the Three Beasts (from illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy)
Stipendiary Lecturership (3 hrs/week) in Pure Mathematics
Fixed term for 1 year from 21 September 2026, £8,683 per annum
The University of Leeds wants to appoint at least one candidate in each of the Departments of Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics.
They particularly welcome applications from candidates with expertise in Statistical Methodology and/or the ability to teach across their portfolio of Data Science programmes.
Image: Leeds University student halls of residence (1975)
One of the first Ska revival songs and one of those tracks that you think sounds throwaway and then decades later isn't. Apparently the band weren't sure about it either.