Kate has been awarded a second prize in the IMA Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis for her research paper and presentation of the paper. She was one of six finalists out of a large number of submissions.
A first prize was awarded to James Foster who was previously a PhD student and postdoc here in Oxford Mathematics.
The MSc programme in Mathematical and Computational Finance has been ranked as the #1 financial mathematics/quantitative finance MSc programme in the United Kingdom in the 2025 QuantNet Ranking of the Best UK Quantitative Programmes.
Image: Emanuel de Witte - Courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange
Benjamin has proved a longstanding problem about the limits of addition which Erdös posed in a 1965 paper.
You can read about his work showing how, in any set composed of integers, there's a large subset of numbers that must be sum-free, in this article from the excellent Quanta magazine.