Good News

Congratulations to Georgina who has been highly commended in the divisional EDI awards, epsecially for her work in leading and revitalisating the Mathematrix Society as well as playing a leading role in organising the Oxford Women and Non-Binary People in Mathematics Day.

Once again, our MSc in Mathematical and Computational Finance has been ranked Number 1 in the UK by Quantnet.

In case you missed it, Graeme Segal has been awarded the Chern Medal in recognition of an outstanding lifelong achievement at the highest level in the field of mathematics.

Marjorie Watts (pictured), Nicholas Lai and Yunli Qi have won best poster awards at the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology held in Graz earlier in the month.

Marjorie's poster was titled Accurate noise models and their impact on parameter inference for mathematical models of collective cell behaviours and was co-authored with Carlos Falco and Ruth Baker.

In case you missed it in this week's divisional newsletter, Dominic Vella has received one of the MPLS teaching awards. Congratulations to Dominic.

We announced our supervision awardees in a recent Bulletin and we didn't win anything else. As someone said, all prizes are rubbish, but that doesn't mean I don't want to win one.

Konstantin received the award for his paper, Consensus-Based Optimization Methods Converge Globally. The paper was co-written with Massimo Fornasier and Timo Klock.

The SIAM Student Paper Prize is awarded annually to the student author(s) of the most outstanding paper(s) accepted by SIAM journals within the three years preceding the nomination deadline. Up to three awards are made every year.

Martin Bridson and Yuji Nakatsukasa have been recognised in this year's London Mathematical Society (LMS) awards. Martin wins the Polya Prize for his foundational contributions to the field of geometric group theory and his exceptional service to the mathematical community.

Former MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing student, Jad was presented with the Hansjörg Wacker Memorial Prize at the recent European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) 2026 conference. 

The King has approved the appointment of James Maynard as the new Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He will take up the post on 1 October 2026, and will also be a professorial fellow of Merton College.

This chair is one of three Regius Professorships of Mathematics in the United Kingdom, the others being at St Andrews and Warwick. The Oxford Regius chair was created in 2016 as part of the 90th birthday celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II. James will succeed the inaugural postholder, Andrew Wiles.

Patrick was awarded the Prize by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in recognition of outstanding contributions to the numerical solution of differential equations and numerical methods for scientific computing.

PS: they are running a year behind on the prize because of the Pandemic, hence 2025.