Research news

Congratulations to June Barrow-Green who (with Sarah Hart) has been awarded a four-month programme on the Modern History of Mathematics to be held at the Isaac Newton Institute from January to April 2025. 

Congratulations to Gustavo Rodrigues Ferreira for securing first a London Mathematical Society Early Career Fellowship at Imperial College London and then a postdoctoral research position at Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona.

A recent paper by Kaustubh Adhikari reported several new genes linked to face shape variation in diverse ethnicities.

Congratulations to Álvaro Bustos-Gajardo for securing a three-year postdoctoral research position at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. 

Dan Rust and colleagues Felix Flicker (Cardiff), Henna Koivusalo (Bristol), and Mike Whittaker (Glasgow) have launched The Grimm Network, a series of wandering meetings on all aspects of aperiodic order.

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.