In case you missed it, Graeme Segal has been awarded the Chern Medal in recognition of an outstanding lifelong achievement at the highest level in the field of mathematics. The medal is named in honour of the Chinese-born American mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern and was announced yesterday at the International Congress of Mathematics (ICM) in Philadelphia, USA.
Marjorie Watts (pictured), Nicholas Lai and Yunli Qi have won best poster awards at the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology held in Graz earlier in the month.
Marjorie's poster was titled Accurate noise models and their impact on parameter inference for mathematical models of collective cell behaviours and was co-authored with Carlos Falco and Ruth Baker.
Nicholas' poster was Integrating spatial statistics and agent-based modelling to study tertiary lymphoid structures in cancer and was co-authored with Helen Byrne and Joshua Bull.
And Yunli's poster was on Learning Optimal Adaptive Therapies in Space and Time: Dynamic Threshold Therapy for Prostate Cancer, co-authored with Alexander Anderson and Robert Gatenby (Moffitt Cancer Center, Florida), two former WCMB graduate students, Kit Gallagher (now a postdoc at Harvard Medical School) and Maxi Strobl (now a postdoc with joint appointment at The Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial College London), and Philip Maini.
Count me in: how mathematics explains music - Sarah Hart
Wednesday 12 August 2026, 5.00-6.00 p.m., Lecture Theatre 1
Sarah Hart is Professor Emerita of Mathematics at Birkbeck College.
Please email @email to register to attend in person. The lecture will be broadcast on the Oxford Mathematics YouTube Channel (subject to copyright) on Wednesday 9 September at 5-6 p.m.
Do we spend much time thinking about colleagues' mathematical schooldays? Presumably they were all a bit similar, it being maths, the universal language etc. But behind each story lies language (or lack of it). And political circumstance.
Here's Radek.
A long time ago, in a distant land called the English summer, you'd often see, in gardens, long tubes, usually made of rubber or plastic. At the end of these tubes, hands would wave the tube about and water might - or might not - gush. Happy days.
The Careers Service is pleased to confirm that funding has now been secured to continue this provision for a further three years.
This investment will enable us to recruit two specialist Careers Advisers who will provide tailored careers guidance and support for research staff across the University.
Image: James McNeill Whistler - Arrangement in Grey and Black No 1
With a lead singer who spent a lot of time during early gigs wearing an overcoat and standing on one leg playing the flute (he also owned salmon farms), 'Tull' fitted the Prog Rock stereotype perfectly. But like other Prog Rock bands, in-between the concept albums and overlong songs, there was the odd banger such as this.
For the musician - and mathematician - in you, it's written in asymmetric 5/4 time.