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Oxford Mathematicians Helen Byrne and Benjamin Walker are among the recipients of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB)'s 2021 Awards for established mathematical biologists.

Helen becomes a Fellow of the Society, a programme that honours members of the Society who are recognised by the scientific and scholarly community as distinguished contributors to the discipline and also contributors to the Society. This honour will be bestowed at the SMB annual meeting in Riverside in 2021.

Ben has been awarded the H. D. Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Award. This Award recognises a graduate student who is making outstanding scientific contributions to mathematical biology during doctoral studies. Ben is being honored for outstanding contributions modelling flagella and Leishmania and numerical analysis of swimming, and also for his future as a bright leader in the field.  He will receive a certificate at the SMB Ceremony at the Annual Meeting.

Like many Universities around the world, Oxford has gone online for lockdown and that has included our undergraduate lectures. Normally delivered in packed lecture halls by a lecturer and a whiteboard (sadly blackboards are now emiriti), we have had to rapidly adjust to an online substitute. So how do they look? Well, we'll be doing a feature on the student experience soon, but in the meantime take a look for yourself courtesy of two lectures: the first is from Marc Lackenby's 2nd Year Lecture course on Graph Theory, the second from Ben Green's 2nd Year course on Number Theory. When watching lectures, students can also access course materials online (as can you!). 

More widely, we are making student lectures available to the wider Public (both the online and the lecture theatre versions) to give an insight in to the student experience and how we teach Maths in Oxford. All lectures are followed by tutorials where pairs of students spend an hour with their tutor to go through the lectures and accompanying work sheets.

There are many more lectures on our YouTube Channel via the Student Lecture playlist. 

Lockdown hasn't stopped our Oxford Mathematics Open Days. And it hasn't stopped hundreds of prospective students attending and asking questions as we all met up online. In fact we received over 500 questions on the two recent Open Days (April 25 and May 2) so we thought we would pull out the most popular and make a short film of answers.

So if you want to know about whether doing four 'A' levels is an advantage, whether your GCSEs matter, what the accommodation is like or even whether the vegan options in Colleges are any good, then here you go. Five minutes of answers courtesy of Admissions guru James Munro and Maddy, Lauren, Max and Beth, four of our Oxford Mathematics students.

And keep an eye on this page for details of our next Q&A session for prospective students on 4th June 2020 @3pm. The focus will be on the Mathematics Admissions Test (MAT) but James will also be taking questions on all subjects (or nearly all).