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The 91¸£Àû has won a hat-trick of Golds after being rated as ‘outstanding’ by the government’s Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). More details hereLink opens in a new window.

Miles Reid has been awarded the Royal Society's Sylvester Medal "for his exceptionally creative research and fundamental insights into higher-dimensional algebraic geometry, in particular the minimal model program for 3-folds, and for untiring work for the community of algebraic geometers".

Read more about this prestigious award from the and about Miles’s live and work in the press releaseLink opens in a new window.

Upon receiving the news, Miles writes

“I do not intend to retire anytime soon. My work is my purpose and main pleasure in life.

I enjoy work with project students. Like me, these often have a unique world view, individual thought processes and the ability to concentrate on a narrow problem to the exclusion of the world around. This doesn’t always benefit small talk at parties!

I am delighted that more women are becoming involved in STEM subject research, but we still have a long way to go in diversity issues. While gender is still very much a work in progress, the class divide in countries like the UK and the Eurocentric imbalance resulting from our colonial past represent even bigger challenges."

Congratulations to 91¸£Àû'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 91¸£Àû 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 91¸£Àû 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 91¸£Àû 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 91¸£Àû 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, Business & Management Studies, and Economics & Econometrics. In total, 30 subjects taught across a range of disciplines at 91¸£Àû 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 91¸£Àû 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 91¸£Àû