Teaching and Learning

Three College Vacancies:

Stipendiary Lecturership in Applied Mathematics at Wadham College

Stipendiary Lecturer in Mathematics at St Edmund Hall

Stipendiary Lecturership in Mathematics at Christ Church College

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And we're also recruiting a Graduate Studies Officer to work with our fab grads and colleagues in Academic Administration.

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Josh Bull has become something of an agony uncle for our social media followers. Who knew so many people wanted an answer to the question he poses in the video below. And to cap it off, Josh was interviewed on Times Radio last weekend about this major issue.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Modelling and Analysis of Interacting Particle Systems, working with Maria Bruna.

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Battery Modelling working with Jon Chapman.

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Image: Still from a film by Erik Panzer of a seagull cracking a stone on the Common Room roof. Might explain a few things...

Josh Bull has mathematics on his mind all the time, even at the kitchen sink. 

Our latest 'Maths in everyday life' film.

We're  looking for mentors and projects for online research projects with Africa. This scheme matches mentors with Master’s-level students in sub-Saharan Africa who are not currently enrolled in a PhD programme; through a combination of research experience and skills training, the scheme aims to empower students to make competitive graduate applications in Africa and elsewhere.

The MPLS Divisional Teaching Award Scheme celebrates success, and recognises innovation and/or leadership in teaching. Awards are available to all those who teach, including graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and learning support staff.  

Nominations open on 1^st March and may be made by academics, staff and students. You can nominate yourself or another person. 

The Centre for Teaching and Learning invites staff to apply for the new Oxford Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership Recognition Scheme, following its successful reaccreditation by Advance HE. The new scheme includes a strong emphasis on recognition and educational leadership, and is designed for staff who teach and support learning to achieve fellowships of the Higher Education Academy.

New Whitehead Library books in February 2025 include the titles below.

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Glen Callater Room, H B Allen Centre, Keble College, Wednesday, 12 February 2025. All welcome. Coffee from 4.10 pm.

Public Lecture: Helge Holden (Chair of the Abel Prize Committee) - The Abel Prize 

Workshops: Jose Carrillo - Aggregation-Diffusion Equations for Collective Behaviour in the Sciences;

François Caron - Frequentist, Assisted by Bayes, Prediction-Powered Inference;

Andras Juhasz - The Unknotting Number, Hard Unknot Diagrams, and Reinforcement Learning