Good News

Three Oxford Mathematicians have won London Mathematical Society (LMS) Prizes for 2025. Nigel Hitchin has won the De Morgan Medal, Helen Byrne the Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics and Vidit Nanda receives a Whitehead Prize.

Georgina won the prize for her poster on 'Mathematical modelling of ion charge asymmetry in electrolytic cells'.

The prize is among the most prestigious in literary fiction, so it's good to see mathematics represented.

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. 

Invite your family

Talk to your colleagues

Eat ice-cream

Drink Pimm's (but not too much)

Eat, eat, eat

Relax

And enjoy yourselves 

4pm Common Room and Penrose tiling. We'd love to see you all, even for a short while.

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Oxford Mathematician and computer scientist Ursula Martin has been appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to Science and Education in the King's Birthday Honours 2025. Dame Ursula joins fellow Oxford Mathematicians Frances Kirwan and Alison Etheridge as DBE.

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.