Public Lectures and Upcoming Events

Does mathematics have anything to do with biology? - Philip Maini

Wednesday 11 November, 5 pm.

Please email @email to register to attend in person.

On Friday 6th November Neel Nanda is returning to Oxford to give a talk. Neel leads the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind and will give an overview of interpretability and how it can and cannot help AI safety. 

On the Origins of Riemann’s Hypothesis - David E Rowe

Wednesday 28 October 2026, 5.00-6.00 pm, Andrew Wiles Building, Mathematical Institute, Oxford

We will be holding our Annual Institute celebration on Monday 19th October 2026 from 5:00pm to approximately 7:00pm in Lecture Room 1 in the Andrew Wiles building. As part of the event, we will also be holding our Awards Ceremony, where we will celebrate the achievements of fellow students and our staff though the Examination Prizes and Departmental Teaching Prize Awards for the 2025 – 2026 academic year.

We are pleased to announce that there will also be a talk from Professor James Maynard.

Professor Raphaël Millière will be speaking on “What goes on inside language models?”. 

Although this is a welcome lecture for our first-years, all Philosophy and joint school students and staff members are welcome to attend as well! 

Ace Your Trades – Workshop (Oct 16th, 6:00-9:00pm)

Location: L2, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG

Have you always been curious about a career in trading? Da Vinci is kicking off the upcoming career fairs with an interactive workshop to give you a better insight into our dynamic and fast-paced world!

Marshall Wace is a leading global alternatives investment manager with over $85bn in assets under management. Our Quantitative teams are a group of talented individuals with specialisations in a range of subjects including Maths, Physics, Engineering, and Computer Science.

Join us to discover G-Research and the world of Quantitative Finance. During the event you will take part in our brand new cointegration challenge, led by our researchers, where you'll test your strategies on unseen, real world data sets! Play for fun, or bring you competitive spirit for the chance to win prizes!

Following the challenge, you'll have the chance to network with our researchers over some food and drinks; a great opportunity to ask your questions and hear about their transition from academia to industry. 

Graham Farmelo's authorised biography of Stephen Hawking has just been published. The title of this Oxford Mathematics Roger Penrose Public Lecture is the same as the one that Hawking chose for his Lucasian Inaugural Lecture in April 1980. Graham will look at the genesis of his presentation, the splash it made and how views on the subject changed in later decades.

Graham Farmelo is a biographer and science writer. He has written an acclaimed biography of Paul Dirac as well as his biography of Stephen Hawking.