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Upper bounds for multicolour Ramsey numbers
Balister, P Bollobás, B Campos, M Griffiths, S Hurley, E Morris, R Sahasrabudhe, J Tiba, M Journal of the American Mathematical Society volume 39 issue 3 765-780 (16 Jan 2026)

Happy Pancake Day

Tuesday 17 February | Morning Only 

Treat yourself this Shrove Tuesday with our exclusive breakfast menu. We’re serving up stacks of fluffy, golden pancakes loaded with a variety of delicious toppings. 

Chinese New Year Celebrations

Tuesday 17 February | From 12 to 2 pm 

Who owns our knowledge? In the age of AI, how can we make research trustworthy and share it openly (including in non-traditional formats)? Join the research community in shaping the future of ‘open.’ Come to challenge, learn, laugh, and eat. All Oxford staff/students attend free, but spaces limited.

In-person Wed 4 March 10:00 - 18:00, including lunch. Online events 2 - 6 March. 

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On the well-posedness of a nonlocal kinetic model for dilute polymers with anomalous diffusion
Fritz, M Suli, E Wohlmuth, B Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis (26 Feb 2026)

In week 5 of Hilary Term (w/b 16 February for those of us on Planet Earth) the Radcliffe Science Library will be hosting a wellbeing week. There will be a range of events based on student feedback, including an art class, jewellery making, free hot chocolate, board games and more. Details and booking available on the Wellbeing Calendar.

Fri, 13 Feb 2026
12:00
L5

Infinite Dimensional Symmetry in Topological-Holomorphic QFTs

Dr Joaquin Liniado
(Edinburgh)
Abstract
In recent years, lower-dimensional quantum field theories have often been understood as descending from higher-dimensional topological-holomorphic gauge theories, with their algebraic and geometric structures thereby becoming manifest. This perspective has led to substantial progress in the study of two-dimensional integrable field theories, four-dimensional integrable systems, and, more recently, celestial holography. In this talk, we present a new instance of this mechanism starting from a five-dimensional holomorphic BF theory. We show how it gives rise to a three-dimensional QFT, whose symmetries are naturally organized into a shifted Poisson vertex algebra. Such structures appear ubiquitously in holomorphic–topological twists of three-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric field theories. We conclude with some remarks on how this construction may be framed within the context of twisted holography.

 
Wed, 25 Feb 2026

11:00 - 13:00
L4

A stochastic control approach to Euclidean field theories with exponential interaction

Michael Hofstetter
(University of Vienna)
Abstract
In this talk, I demonstrate how to obtain couplings of the Liouville field and the sinh-Gordon field with the Gaussian free field in dimension $d=2$, such that the difference is in a Sobolev space of regularity $\alpha > 1$. The analysis covers the entire L2 phase. The main tool is the variational approach to Euclidean field theories by Barashkov and Gubinelli applied to field theories with exponential interaction. The additional key ingredients are estimates for the short scales of the minimizer of the variational problem and several applications of the Brascamp-Lieb inequality.


 

Complete Classification of the Dehn Functions of Bestvina–Brady Groups
Chang, Y García-Mejía, J Migliorini, M Geometric and Functional Analysis (02 Feb 2026)
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