Café π news -Christmas opening hours

The café will close for the Christmas break on Tuesday, 23 December at 2:00 pm and will reopen as usual on Monday, 5 January. 

The café team would like to take this opportunity to wish all their customers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

 

The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards

The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards 2026 are now open for nominations. There are loads of categories so we are all eligible. This year’s awards include a number of new and amended categories, with the ceremony to be held at the Schwarzman building (so not far to travel when you win).

More information about the awards

Short stories 3

When you put a mic on a ruler (we couldn't find a set square) and give it to three of our Mirzakhani students...

Short stories 1

Selfie, selfie, it's your call, who's the fairest of them all?

Sam Howison, obviously. Except for one thing.

Development of a universal imaging “phenome” using Shape, Appearance and Motion (SAM) features and the SAM Observation Tool (SPOT)
 Zhou, F Norton-Steele, A Marsh, L Byrne, H Harrington, H Lu, X doi:10.1101/2025.11.28.691105
Development of a universal imaging “phenome” using Shape, Appearance and Motion (SAM) features and the SAM Observation Tool (SPOT)
 Zhou, F Norton-Steele, A Marsh, L Byrne, H Harrington, H Lu, X doi:10.1101/2025.11.28.691105
Public reporting guidelines for outbreak data: enabling accountability for effective outbreak response by developing standards for transparency and uniformity
 Gregoire, V Zhu, A Brown, C Brownstein, J Cardo, D Cumming, F Danila, R Donnelly, C Duchin, J Fill, M Fullerton, K Funk, S George, D Hopkins, S Kraemer, M Layton, M Lessler, J Lynfield, R McCaw, J McPherson, T Moore, Z Morgan, O Riley, S Rosenfeld, R Samoff, E Schaffner, W Shaffner, J Sturm, R Tershita, D Walke, H Washington, R Rivers, C Public Health volume 251 (19 Dec 2025) doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2025.106102

Song of the Week 1: Sergei Prokoviev - Lieutenant Kijé (Troika)

A Christmas classic...

Written for the Russian film Lieutenant Kijé in 1934, it has become synonymous with the festive season, though in fact it depicts a cart being pulled by horses in the summer. Christmas wasn't big in the Soviet Union.

You often hear it without the first, slower 30 seconds or so, but here it is in full. Well worth the wait.

Abstract PR005: Mathematical biomarkers enable personalized adaptive therapy based on outcome prediction in prostate cancer
 Gallagher, K Strobl, M Gatenby, R Zhang, J Maini, P Anderson, A Cancer Research volume 85 issue 23_Supplement pr005-pr005 (04 Dec 2025) doi:10.1158/1538-7445.canevol25-pr005
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