We’re pleased to invite you to the Oxford MATLAB Bootcamp, taking place on Thursday 22 October 2026 in Software Lab A, Level 6, Thom Building, Parks Road, OX1 3PJ.
Led by Rory Adams from MathWorks, the bootcamp is designed for students and researchers who already use MATLAB and would like to develop more effective workflows for research, modelling, code development, and technical projects.
International Mathstory Competition 2026
The International Mathstory Competition is an annual competition that encourages undergraduate students and students in the final two years of pre-university education (including A-levels and equivalent qualifications) to communicate the beauty, meaning and real-world relevance of mathematics through 3-4 minute digital stories.
The Department of Materials is organising our postgraduate Open Day for those interested in applying to our postgraduate courses.
During this online event, you will find out more about making a good application, funding, key dates, and more. You will meet current students as well as supervisors, and there will be an opportunity to ask questions during a live Q&A session.
This Michaelmas, the Radcliffe Science Library Wellbeing Programme is back with a range of free activities designed to help you take a break, recharge and connect with others during a busy term.
From weekly hot drinks and LEGO Lunches to board games, crafts and therapy dogs, there’s something to help you step away from your studies for a little while.
About the Role
We are seeking an EDI Officer to play a key role in turning the Mathematical Institute’s equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy into meaningful and measurable change. You will support a range of initiatives designed to foster a welcoming, respectful and supportive environment for our staff and students, with a particular focus on implementing, monitoring and evaluating our Athena Swan Action Plan.
We study the geometry of simplicial cochains on Vietoris–Rips complexes built from i.i.d. samples of a compact embedded manifold. By integrating differential forms over affine simplices, we define a cochain map from smooth forms to simplicial cochains and equip the latter with kernel-weighted inner products determined by ambient pairwise distances. At scales where the sampled complex recovers the homotopy type of the manifold, we prove quantitative high-probability convergence of these inner products and, under uniform sampling, of the associated codifferential energies to their continuum counterparts. As consequences, we obtain spectral upper-bounds for the discrete Hodge Laplacian and, for orientable manifolds, convergence of harmonic representatives of discretized harmonic one-forms and consistency of harmonic smoothing for circular coordinates.
This is joint work with Darrick Lee: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11137