Research news

Post-doctoral research associate Yasushi Nagain has secured a lectureship in Shinshu University, Matsumoto City, Japan, starting April 2021.

Brigitte Stenhouse has been awarded the International Commission on the History of Mathematics 2021 Montucla Prize for her article Mary Somerville’s early contributions to the circulation of differential calculus, published in Historia Mathematica in 2020. 

PhD student Alison Maidment's recent paper A Man Who Has Infinite Capacity for Making Things Go: Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873-1956), co-authored with Mack McCartney and published in The British Journal for the History of Mathematics (2019), has made the list of 'Notable Writings' in the book  Best Writings on Mathematics 2020 by Mircea Pitik.  

Reem Yassawi has been awarded a £336,713 EPSRC New Investigator Award for her project Computing algebraic invariants of symbolic dynamical systems.

Professor Uwe Grimm has secured a £201,914 EPSRC New Horizon's grant on Novel superior materials based on aperiodic tilings with co-investigators  Iestyn Jowers and Richard Moat from the School of Engineering & Innovation.

Welcome to new statistics professor Stefanie Biedermann!

Professor Robin Wilson has published his 50th book Number Theory: A Very Short Introduction with Oxford University Press.

Professor Jeremy Gray has published a new book Simply Riemann as part of the Simply Charly book series.