Awards and appointments

Milena Vuletic has received the Rising Star in Quant Finance award at Risk Awards 2025. Milena received her award for her learning-based volatility model, VolGan. You can read more about it and the long journey to get there here.

Clarity and elegance are important in the written word, not least in mathematics, so we are delighted that Ben Green, Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics in Oxford, has been awarded the inaugural I. Martin Isaacs Prize for Excellence in Mathematical Writing for his article “On Sárközy’s theorem for shifted primes,” published in Journal of the American Mathematical Society in 2024.

Professor Dominic Joyce has been appointed Savilian Professor of Geometry here in Oxford. Dominic will be the 21st holder of the Savilian Chair. Established in 1619 by Sir Henry Savile, it has been held by many top mathematicians - including John Wallis (who introduced the ∞∞ notation), Edmond Halley (after whom Halley's comet is named), Edward Titchmarsh, and Sir Michael Atiyah.