Events in the Department

Three years of research in 180 seconds and one slide? Brave.

Our Three-minute Thesis Competition is now available.

Count me in: how mathematics explains music - Sarah Hart

Wednesday 12 August 2026, 5.00-6.00 p.m., Lecture Theatre 1

What you doing 2 July? Only,  do you fancy coming out for a drink? Maybe something to eat? There'll be a bunch of us.

Summer Party,  Thursday 2 July, 4 p.m. Common Room. 

Bring your family. Or someone else's.

Image: Norman Rockwell - First date - Home Late

Andrew Saxe (UCL Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit) - Demystifying depth: principles of learning in deep neural networks

L3, 4 p.m. TODAY

Bio and abstract

All staff across the Mathematical Institute are invited to join Jim Naismith, Head of MPLS, for an overview of the Division’s financial plans at one of a series of roadshow events being hosted in individual departments in June.

Come and along and hear the future. And see if you can understand it.

Today in L1 at 4.30 p.m. (note new time)

Image: Saul Bass's poster for the 1958 Hitchcock film Vertigo

We are delighted to introduce our latest exhibition in the Andrew Wiles Building, featuring 30 mathematically-inspired paintings  by Dutch visual artist Paul Ouwerkerk.

The exhibition launch will be on Friday 5th June at 5 p.m. in the South Mezzanine and all are welcome. Please email Dyrol (@email) if you wish to attend.

A  three-day programme exploring how mathematics is shaping the foundations of AI and helping to unlock the next generation of AI systems.

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 1–3 September 2026.

Early bird tickets are now available and poster submissions are now open.

Register and more information

On Virtual Representations of Finite Chevalley Groups in Defining Characteristic - Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT) 

Wednesday 20 May at 1600 in L4. 

More information