Continue to test twice a week
All students who are currently living in Oxford are strongly encouraged to continue to test twice a week in order to identify COVID-19 cases where people aren’t showing symptoms. This includes those of us who have been vaccinated. Omicron is more contagious than previous variants and can still pose a serious health risk for certain people so please test regularly to minimise the risk to our community and to prevent disruption to academic studies.
Lectures are live once again! Almost all courses are running both in-person and online in Hilary term. We are excited to have you all back and bringing some life to the Mathematical Institute.
The following are going to be online only, as pre-recorded lectures.
Prelims
- Fourier Series and PDEs
Part A
- A10 Fluids and Waves
Part B
-B5.4 Waves and Compressible Flow
On Wednesday András Juhász and Marc Lackenby published a paper in Nature (and on its cover) in collaboration with authors from DeepMind and with Geordie Williamson at the University of Sydney. The paper describes a new crossover between the fields of mathematics and machine learning, where tools from machine learning have been used to discover new patterns in mathematics.
We have started a new subscription to Journal of Topology and Analysis. Published by World Scientific, access starts from Volume 1/2009 and has already been activated. Links have been added to SOLO and Oxford e-Journals and will also appear in Browzine shortly.
If you are coming in to the department, you are strongly encouraged to take a LFD test twice weekly and report the results to the Early Alert Service and the NHS. Tests are available from LFD Collect sites, or from government-sponsored schemes including home delivery. The LFD Collect sites are:
The University’s health guidance has been expanded, following a number of queries about what staff and students should do if they are unwell with non-COVID-19 respiratory infections. Under Government guidance, anyone with COVID-19 symptoms must stay at home and self-isolate until they have received a negative PCR test result. They must also self-isolate if they live in the same household as someone with COVID-19, unless they are exempt (for example, if they have had a full course of a COVID-19 vaccine in the UK).
For those of you who are new or who need a top up, we have a range of Oxford Mathematics merchandise from hoodies to mugs via bags and t-shirts and notebooks. Because we can't sell though the usual route of cafe or the University online store (now closed), if you wish to buy merchandise please email Dyrol (@email) to arrange a time to shop.
Cash only unfortunately, until we can find a way to take cards or Bitcoin.
There have been a lot of changes in the Academic Admninistration team recently, so here is a full list of who they are and what they do, led by the inestimable Charlotte Turner-Smith (moonlighting below).
It's World Mental Heath Day on Sunday 10 October, and to better support the mental health and wellbeing of staff and students, we have recently appointed a cohort of Mental Health First Aiders (MHFAs) who completed their training in July. Mental Health First Aiders provide an extra layer of support within the department. They are trained to identify, understand and help someone who may be experiencing poor mental health by listening, reassuring, responding, and signposting people to appropriate internal and external support.
Congratulations to Oxford Mathematics and Worcester College undergraduate Ellen who was a joint winner of the British Society for the History of Mathematics Undergraduate Essay Prize for her essay 'The "analysis" of a century: Influences on the etymological development of the word "analysis" in a mathematical context to 1750'.