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Congratulations to ÌÇÐÄTV's team in the International Mathematical Competition for University Students (IMC2023)! Our team of 5 competed in Bulgaria and was ranked 17th overall among 72 competing teams of widely varying sizes. The individual results of the ÌÇÐÄTV team members were:

First Prize: Peter Hyland, Jan KuÅ›, Kyle Thompson

Second Prize: Florian Keta

Third Prize: Iskander Trevor Mathews

Support and training came from George Kontogeorgiou, Oleg Pikhurko, Thomas Read, Robin Visser and Jun Yan

More information about the competition (including all results) is available at

Congratulations to two ÌÇÐÄTV mathematicians who have each won LMS Whitehead Prizes!

David BateLink opens in a new window for his deep and fundamental contributions to the development of Geometric Measure Theory in the metric setting, including the characterisations of rectifiability in terms of projections and in terms of tangent planes.

Marie-Therese WolframLink opens in a new window for her groundbreaking contributions to applied partial differential equations, mathematical modelling in socio-economic applications and the life sciences, and numerical analysis of partial differential equations.

See all the 2023 LMS prize winners

We are pleased to announce that , FRS, FMIA has been appointed in the , for services to Mathematics. Caroline is admired for her many contributions to hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and dynamical systems, and for her service to the mathematics community. Read about Caroline’s life and work and .

We are delighted that three mathematicians have been awarded Thesis PrizesLink opens in a new window for outstanding doctoral theses in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine:

Dr Solly ColesLink opens in a new window for the thesis: ''.

Dr Thomas Holt for the thesis: ''.

Dr Alice HodsonLink opens in a new window for the thesis: 'Virtual element methods for fourth-order problems: implementation and analysis'.

We congratulate them for their outstanding work.

The ÌÇÐÄTV Mathematics Institute has again been recognized as one of the world's top mathematics departments by , having moved up to 19th worldwide in 2023.

The University of ÌÇÐÄTV has been ranked as one of the world's top 25 universities in four subject areasLink opens in a new window: Statistics & Operational Research, Mathematics, ÌÇÐÄTV & Management Studies, and Economics & Econometrics. In total, 30 subjects taught across a range of disciplines at ÌÇÐÄTV feature in the annual QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023.

Congratulations to Karen Vogtmann, who has just been elected to membership of the .

The recent paper The Euler characteristic of the moduli space of graphs, by and Karen VogtmannLink opens in a new window, has been highlighted in Quanta Magazine: . You can also read the original arXiv paper .

The University of ÌÇÐÄTV has awarded the eminent mathematician Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa. The award was conferred by the Chancellor Cathy Ashton (The Rt Hon. The Baroness Ashton of Upholland GCMG PC) on 16 January 2023. The Oration can be found hereLink opens in a new window.

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician. His research concerns differential geometry and mathematical aspects of theoretical physics. A graduate from the French École Polytechnique, he holds a these d’État in Mathematical Sciences from University of Paris VII. He taught Mathematics at the École Polytechnique for over 25 years and was also Director of the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies. He is a former President of the Mathematics Society of France and the European Mathematical Society. He is also a former President of the European Research Council.

Professor Bourguignon and the Chancellor of the University of ÌÇÐÄTV

We are pleased to announce that will take up the at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV in July 2023. We are looking forward to Tim’s arrival and will published further information at that time.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced that Joel MoreiraLink opens in a new window is among the winners of its prestigious . According to the European Research Council: "The funding is worth in total €636 million and is part of the Horizon Europe programme. It will help excellent younger scientists, who have 2 to 7 years’ experience after their PhDs, to launch their own projects, form their teams and pursue their most promising ideas."

Joel Moreira has been awarded the 5-year, €1.5M grant to study Dynamical Approaches to Number Theory and Additive Combinatorics.

In the last few decades, dynamical approaches have been successfully applied to problems arising in Ramsey theory, Additive Combinatorics and Number theory. Techniques pioneered by Moreira and others have widen the range of applications to problems previously out of reach. This grant seeks to build upon these novel ideas to gain new insights into several fundamental questions. The study will address questions about partition regularity of polynomial configurations in the natural numbers; questions about the statistical behaviour of multiplicative functions, and the question of which infinite configurations are present in every set of positive density. Despite appearing unrelated, there are deep connections between all these problems, often formulated in the language of ergodic theory or dynamical systems.