Research news

PhD student Mahfuzur Khokan has been awarded a London Mathematical Society Early Career Fellowship to work at the University of East Anglia with Professor Mizanur Khondoker on Developing statistical models to correct for biases in skin colour measurement machines.

Look out for this week's BBC Radio 4 show In Our Time on the mathematician Paul Erdős

Brigitte Stenhouse has been awarded a 2023 DHST Dissertation Prize from the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology for her dissertation on Mary Somerville: Being and Becoming a Mathematician at the Open University, supervised by Professor June Barrow-Green.

Cathy Smith (PI), Vinay Kathotia (Co-I), and collaborators have been successful in their £25,000 bid to the Royal Society for the research project The intersection of mathematics, computing, statistics, and data science as part of the Mathematical Futures programme.

Princeton University Press have released new editions of Jeremy Gray's texts Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography and Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics. 

Congratulations to Elsen Tjhung who has been awarded a five-year EPSRC Open Fellowship Plus of £1,009,749 for his research project Thermodynamics of growing active and living matter.

Research student Elizabeth Kimber has won the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics New Researcher Award 2022.

Professor June Barrow-Green spoke at the virtual International Congress for Mathematicians 2022 on George Birkhoff’s forgotten manuscript and his programme for dynamics.

The results of the REF 2021 are out with 95% of Open University research in mathematical sciences judged to be internationally excellent or world leading.

Congratulations to Katherine Staden who has been awarded a three-year EPSRC Fellowship of £300,374 for her research project Graph decompositions via probability and designs.