Good News

Lena Zuspann has been selected as our new EDI Fellow by the Division. Lena says: I’m very excited to be one of this year’s MPLS ED&I Fellows, and I’m here to listen to and raise any concern or idea about ED&I in our department. Over the course of this year, I’m hoping to contribute to making everyone feel welcome and represented, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Kaibo Hu has won one of this year's prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prizes. The award recognises the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising.

We are pleased to announce that the awards for Contributions to the Department in 2025-26 are made to the following graduate students.

Mario Marcos Losada: for his contributions in organising the Junior Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar, running Prelims Corner and supporting outreach activities. He has also been a dedicated mentor to first-year undergraduates and newer DPhil students with an exemplary approach to delivering quality teaching.

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.