Dr Henna Koivusalo has been nominated London Mathematical Society's Emmy Noether Fellow in Mathematics for the time period Aug 2026 - Jul 2027. These prestigious fellowships offer funding of up to £10,000 to support research careers balanced with caregiving responsibilities.
Dr Henna Koivusalo has been nominated London Mathematical Society's Emmy Noether Fellow in Mathematics for the time period Aug 2026 - Jul 2027. These prestigious fellowships offer funding of up to £10,000 to support research careers balanced with caregiving responsibilities.
Understanding how wounds heal after injury could be a step closer thanks to a new mathematical model developed by researchers at the University of Bristol.
We’re delighted to share that Professor Catherine Hobbs has been announced as a new member of EPSRC Council recognising her continued leadership and impact across the mathematics community.
Recent School of Mathematics graduate Dr Daniel Milner, and current student Dominic Broadbent, both showcased their pioneering PhD research to academic peers and industry representatives last week, as finalists in one of the UK’s most important mathematics and data science competitions.
Professor David Vincent Evans, Applied Mathematician and former Head of Department, Dean of Science and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol, passed away on 13 March. Professor Richard Porter, his former PhD student, postdoc, colleague and close friend, remembers his life.
School of Mathematics PhD student Ollie Baker – undertaking his research as part of the Compass CDT – attended the House of Commons last week, as a finalist in the prestigious STEM for Britain scientific poster competition.
Laura Monk, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, will take part in a celebration of the life and works of Sophie Germain on 1 April 2026. The event will cover the history and the innovations of a less known but valuable 19th century female mathematician.
Professor Ashley Montanaro from the School of Mathematics spoke to the BBC this week (Tuesday 17 March) to respond to new Government proposals for support for quantum computing.
Five colleagues from the School of Mathematics took part in a celebration of Women and Girls in STEM with a focus on Mathematics to a full audience of students, secondary school pupils, parents, teachers, academics and the public in the Fry Building on 11 February.
PhD student, Marina Anagnostopoulou-Merkouri, has been awarded a prestigious LMS Scholarship.
Five colleagues across three schools and two faculties were elected as Fellows of AcadMathSci in the first appointments made by the Academy.
Dr Laura Monk's work on hyperbolic geometry chosen as one of 2025’s three biggest breakthroughs in mathematics worldwide.
Dr Lee's paper, with Joona Karjalainen, Sumeetpal Singh and Matti Vihola, called "Mixing time of the conditional backward sampling particle filter" was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of the Royal Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology).
Senior Lecturer in the School of Maths, Henna Koivusalo, took part in the 'Seven questions with...' series with Cambridge Mathematics.
More early-career researchers will be able to explore the depth and beauty of pure mathematics at the University of Bristol, thanks to £2.4 million in research funding from the leading algorithmic trading firm, XTX Markets.
Professors Jens Marklof and Laura Monk will both present lectures at the London Mathematical Society’s (LMS) Annual General Meeting 2025.
From January 2026, the UK Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Sciences (KE Hub) will be jointly hosted by the University of Bristol’s School of Mathematics and the School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, both within the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Applications for Heilbronn Research Fellowships in Pure Mathematics, Data Science, and Quantum Computing are now open.
The work of several statisticians and mathematicians from the University of Bristol has been recognised in the announcement of accepted papers for the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).
Dr Sarah Sachs has joined the School of Mathematics as Lecturer in Statistical Science.
Quantum software company Phasecraft, co-founded by Professor Ashley Montanaro from the School of Mathematics, has landed $34 million in funding to accelerate its breakthrough work to transform quantum computing’s theoretical promise into practical applications.
A team of researchers from the University of Bristol has won an Outstanding Paper Award at the prestigious International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025 for their groundbreaking work on handling missing data in machine learning tasks.
The Compass CDT will be well-represented at this year’s ICML, with several of its students having papers accepted by the prestigious event.
The School of Mathematics is delighted to share that Dr Henna Koivusalo has been recognised by the London Mathematical Society with the Anne Bennett Prize.
Dr Henna Koivusalo and Professor Oliver Johnson both make recent media appearances.
Improving upon its previous ranking, the School now sits in sixth place.
The School of Maths is delighted to welcome Dr Yihan Zhang as a new Lecturer in Statistical Science.
The School of Maths is delighted to welcome Professor Marco Bertola as a Royal Society Visiting Fellow.
Congratulations to the university of Bristol team who took park in this prestigious Maths competition.
Former Bristol postdoc Dr Jory Griffin has been awarded the Annales Henri Poincaré Prize for the journal’s most remarkable paper published in 2023.
The School of Maths' Dr Laura Monk has had a paper, entitled 'Friedman-Ramanujan functions in random hyperbolic geometry and application to spectral gaps II', published in Quanta Magazine.
Lecturer in Statistical Science, Juliette Unwin, is among 42 emerging leaders to be appointed.
On Wednesday 19 February, Professor Tanniemola Liverpool gave a public lecture in Oxford on The Mathematics of Wound Healing.
The School of Maths' Sean Dewar was a witness for a Guiness World Record, in anticipation of Pi day on 14 March.
To celebrate Women and Girls in STEM day, on 12 Feb the School of Mathematics arranged a free public event.
The School of Maths welcomes new Associate Professor Zemer Kosloff.
Bristol researchers, in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team from Oxford and Strathclyde, have introduced a new scheme for speeding up quantum measurements, a vital building block for quantum technologies. This has been published in Physical Review Letters and been chosen as an “Editor’s suggestion”.
Three papers, authored by the School of Math's Sam Power, Rahil Morjaria and Song Liu, have been accepted at AISTATS 2025, which is a leading conference in AI, Statistics and Machine Learning.
Dr Juliette Unwin was part of the research team whose paper, 'Orphanhood and caregiver death among children in the United States by all-cause mortality, 2000–2021', was published in Nature Medicine.
The results of new research by Dr Matteo Fasiolo, on modelling electricity net-demand (consumption minus embedded generation) in Great Britain has recently been published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
The 2024 Naylor Lecture is to be given by Professor Jens Eggers.
October 21, 2024 marked the launch of the INFORMED-AI Hub at the M-Shed, Bristol’s museum of society and history.
Tom Murdoch, Honorary Professor was recently quoted by CNN regarding the new proof of Pythagoras's theorem.
Heilbronn Research Fellowships in Pure Mathematics, Data Science, and Quantum Computing are open for applications.
Following the recent meeting of the University Senate, Professor Jens Marklof FRS has been awarded the position of Henry Overton Wills Chair in Mathematics.
Members of the Institute for Statistical Science within the School of Mathematics have three papers accepted at the NeurIPS conference.
We are delighted to announce that Laura Monk has been awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship by the Royal Society.
Congratulations to Dr Adam Morgan, who has recently been appointed to a lectureship at the University of Cambridge.
The School of Mathematics is happy to welcome some new members of staff.
University of Bristol mathematics undergraduate supported by Mark Williams Alumni Fund publishes paper on a better way of testing for COVID in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
