Good News

Hannah Ross joined us this week as Undergraduate Studies Administrator: S0.15

Welcome Hannah.

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.

Congratulations to Mike. He joins 31 other current and retired members of the department who are FRS.

Mike says, with the help of ChatGPT (humorous version): "Delighted to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. I plan to celebrate in the traditional scientific way: mild astonishment, followed by tea."

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Chris and Leandro have been awarded Associate Professor titles. 

Congratulations to Professors Hollings and Sánchez-Betancourt.

Congratulations to Josh who won the award from a shortlist of five. This category recognises researchers at the early stages of their careers who've made a significant impact at Oxford University.

Abhishek Rajput, PDRA in Quantum Information and Computation, Mathematical Physics: S1.18

Ali Khan, Senior Development Executive (maternity cover): S0.37

A warm welcome.

Congratulations to Renaud, elected as one of nine new Fellows for 2025 for "foundational contributions to network analysis and modeling, including community detection, the mathematics of random walks, and higher-order and multi-scale patterns in networks".