Research news

The Open University's BBC Radio 4 co-production More or Less has been named the winner in the "Statistical excellence in coronavirus reporting" category of the Royal Statistical Society's Statistical Excellence in Journalism Awards 2021.

Professor Robin Wilson is to give one of the invited public lectures for the Eighth European Congress of Mathematics (20–26 June 2021, Portorož, Slovenia) on European Mathematics: A History in 200 Stamps. 

Professor June Barrow-Green has been invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2022 in Saint Petersburg.

Professor Robin Wilson has published his 51st book Topics in Algorithmic Graph Theory, which he edited together with Lowell Beineke (Purdue) and Martin Charles Golumbic (Haifa), and which is published by Cambridge University Press.

Dr. Maha Moustafa has completed her PhD in statistics at the Open University and secured a lectureship at Coventry University.

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.