Bristol mathematician receives Humboldt Research Award
A leading mathematician at the University of Bristol has been named as a recipient of one of Germany’s top academic accolades.
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Bristol mathematician receives Humboldt Research Award
A leading mathematician at the University of Bristol has been named as a recipient of one of Germany’s top academic accolades.
Henna Koivusalo awarded London Mathematical Society's Emmy Noether Fellow
Dr Henna Koivusalo has been awarded 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.
New mathematical model could explain why some wounds heal faster than others
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.
Professor Catherine Hobbs announced as a new member of EPSRC Council
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.
School of Mathematics has two finalists in TakeAIM competition
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 Evans, 1940-2026
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.
PhD student is ‘STEM for Britain’ finalist
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.
Bristol scholar to take part in celebration of early female mathematician
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.
Quantum computing expert on the BBC
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.
Celebrating Women and Girls in Mathematics
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 awarded LMS Cecil King Travel Scholarship
PhD student, Marina Anagnostopoulou-Merkouri, has been awarded a prestigious LMS Scholarship.
Bristol mathematicians elected to the Academy for Mathematical Sciences
Five colleagues across three schools and two faculties were elected as Fellows of AcadMathSci in the first appointments made by the Academy.
2025's biggest breakthrough
Dr Laura Monk's work on hyperbolic geometry chosen as one of 2025’s three biggest breakthroughs in mathematics worldwide.
Dr Anthony Lee's paper published in Journal of the Royal Society
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).
'Seven Questions' interview series with Dr Henna Koivusalo
Senior Lecturer in the School of Maths, Henna Koivusalo, took part in the 'Seven questions with...' series with Cambridge Mathematics.
Pure mathematics receives multi-million boost at University of Bristol
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.
Academics from the School of Maths to give lectures at the LMS Annual General Meeting
Professors Jens Marklof and Laura Monk will both present lectures at the London Mathematical Society’s (LMS) Annual General Meeting 2025.
UK Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Sciences to be hosted at University of Bristol
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.
Heilbronn Research Fellowships
Applications for Heilbronn Research Fellowships in Pure Mathematics, Data Science, and Quantum Computing are now open.
Bristol School of Mathematics to make strong showing at world-leading conference on Artificial Intelligence
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).
Welcome to Sarah Sachs
Dr Sarah Sachs has joined the School of Mathematics as Lecturer in Statistical Science.
Phasecraft wins $34 million in funding
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.
Bristol Mathematicians Win Outstanding Paper Award at Top AI Conference for Breakthrough in Learning from Incomplete Data
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.
Compass students at ICML 2025
The Compass CDT will be well-represented at this year’s ICML, with several of its students having papers accepted by the prestigious event.
Henna Koivusalo wins LMS Anne Bennett Prize
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.
Media appearances for two School academics
Dr Henna Koivusalo and Professor Oliver Johnson both make recent media appearances.
School of Mathematics goes up in Complete University Guide rankings
Improving upon its previous ranking, the School now sits in sixth place.
School of Maths welcomes new Lecturer
The School of Maths is delighted to welcome Dr Yihan Zhang as a new Lecturer in Statistical Science.
Professor Bertola visiting the School of Mathematics
The School of Maths is delighted to welcome Professor Marco Bertola as a Royal Society Visiting Fellow.
University of Bristol team’s success at the Imperial-Cambridge Mathematics Competition (ICMC) 2025
Congratulations to the university of Bristol team who took park in this prestigious Maths competition.
Annales Henri Poincare Prize
Former Bristol postdoc Dr Jory Griffin has been awarded the Annales Henri Poincaré Prize for the journal’s most remarkable paper published in 2023.
New preprint covered by Quanta magazine
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.
UK Young Academy appoints Juliette Unwin
Lecturer in Statistical Science, Juliette Unwin, is among 42 emerging leaders to be appointed.
Professor Liverpool gives public lecture
On Wednesday 19 February, Professor Tanniemola Liverpool gave a public lecture in Oxford on The Mathematics of Wound Healing.
Sean Dewar witness to World Record
The School of Maths' Sean Dewar was a witness for a Guiness World Record, in anticipation of Pi day on 14 March.
Women and Girls in STEM event
To celebrate Women and Girls in STEM day, on 12 Feb the School of Mathematics arranged a free public event.
New staff member
The School of Maths welcomes new Associate Professor Zemer Kosloff.
Speeding up quantum measurement using space-time trade-off
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 accepted for publication at the AISTATS 2025 conference
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.
New research on the significant increase in orphanhood in the U.S. in the last two decades
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.
New research on modeling regional electricity net-demand in Great Britain
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.
LMS Annual General Meeting and Naylor Lecture 2024
The 2024 Naylor Lecture is to be given by Professor Jens Eggers.
INFORMED AI – New AI Research Hub Launches in Bristol
October 21, 2024 marked the launch of the INFORMED-AI Hub at the M-Shed, Bristol’s museum of society and history.
Honorary Professor interviewed by CNN
Tom Murdoch, Honorary Professor was recently quoted by CNN regarding the new proof of Pythagoras's theorem.
Heilbronn Research Fellowships
Heilbronn Research Fellowships in Pure Mathematics, Data Science, and Quantum Computing are open for applications.
Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics
Following the recent meeting of the University Senate, Professor Jens Marklof FRS has been awarded the position of Henry Overton Wills Chair in Mathematics.
Statistics and Machine Learning research to be published at NeurIPS 2024
Members of the Institute for Statistical Science within the School of Mathematics have three papers accepted at the NeurIPS conference.
Laura Monk awarded Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
We are delighted to announce that Laura Monk has been awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship by the Royal Society.
Adam Morgan appointed to a lectureship at the University of Cambridge
Congratulations to Dr Adam Morgan, who has recently been appointed to a lectureship at the University of Cambridge.
New starters
The School of Mathematics is happy to welcome some new members of staff.
Undergraduate project leads to published COVID paper
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.
University of Bristol team win three silver medals at the International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC) 2024
The 31st IMC 2024 took place in Bulgaria, where the team from Bristol improved upon previous years’ success, with an impressive 3 silver medals.
Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professorship
The University of Bristol will welcome Professor Edson Leonel to visit in spring 2025 and deliver a series of lectures as a Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor, hosted by Professor Carl Dettmann in the School of Mathematics.
Associate Professor in the School of Maths, Dr Viveka Erlandsson has been awarded a 2024 Whitehead Prize
Associate Professor in the School of Maths, Dr Viveka Erlandsson has been awarded a 2024 Whitehead Prize
Jesse Taylor-West wins prize for thesis
Fellow in Fluid Dynamics at the School of Maths, Dr Taylor-West, has won the UK Fluids Network Thesis prize 2024
Bristol researchers and students to present papers at top AI conference
Five papers by Bristol Researchers and Students have been accepted at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) this year. The ICML 2024 will be held in Vienna.
Luke Jeffreys awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
Congratulations to Luke Jeffreys who has been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (held in Bristol) for his project ‘The combinatorics and dynamics of square-tiled surfaces’.
Dr Laura Monk receives prestigious award
Lecturer from the School of Mathematics, Dr Laura Monk, is awarded a 2024 Breakthrough Prize at the 'Oscars of Science'
Research from School of Mathematics included in Quanta magazine article on AI
Quanta Magazine have published an article entitled 'Elliptic Curve ‘Murmurations’ Found With AI Take Flight', which explores the research being undertaken by Mathematicians to fully explain unusual behaviours uncovered using machine learning.
The School of Mathematics welcomes Professor James Maynard to deliver the Heilbronn Distinguished Lecture Series 2024
It is with great pleasure that we welcome Professor James Maynard, FRS, this March.
School of Mathematics join national AI mission, as University of Bristol announces two AI research hubs
Welcome to Sam Power
The School of Maths welcomes Sam Power as a new Lecturer in the Institute of Statistical Science
Celine Maistret joins The Academy of Medical Sciences’ prestigious career programme
Dr Celine Maisret has been accepted onto the academy’s SUSTAIN career development programme.
Athena Swan Silver Award
The School of Mathematics has been awarded an Athena Swan UK Silver Award for the second time.
New papers shed light on wildcat mystery
New research from the Institute for Statistical Science has shown that wildcats in Britain lived alongside domestic cats since their introduction 2,000 years by the Romans, but only started interbreeding 60 years ago.
Congratulations Nick Baskerville
Nick Baskerville has been awarded the 2023 Doctoral Prize for Mathematical / Environmental Sciences
Congratulations Ben Krause
Professor Ben Krause's recent paper, Pointwise ergodic theorems for non-conventional bilinear polynomial averages, has been recommended to receive a 2023 Best Paper Award in Mathematics.
Dr Nikolas Breuckmann awarded the ‘2023 James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize’
Congratulations to Dr Nikolas Breuckmann on being awarded the ‘2023 James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize’
Earthquake Forecasting Paper published in American Geophysical Union journal: Earth's Future
COMPASS Student Sam Stockman and Statistics Institute member Dan Lawson have worked collaboratively with seismologist Max Werner from the School of Earth Sciences to publish a paper into the American Geophysical Union journal; Earth's Future.
Dr Laura Monk set to mingle with Hollywood stars after winning prestigious science prize
Dr Laura Monk has been named as one of winners of the 2024 Breakthrough Prizes, a prestigious set of accolades dubbed the ‘Oscars of Science’ which boasts an awards ceremony featuring many A-List celebrities.
University announces partnership with Martingale Foundation
The partnership will offer scholarships for students from low-income backgrounds to pursue a master’s and PhD study in the School of Mathematics.
Quantum computing company co-founded by Bristol scientist lands £13m investment
Congratulations to Ashley Montanaro, who’s company, Phasecraft has secured more than £13m in funding to develop its revolutionary technology.
University of Bristol wins 3 bronze medals at the International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC) 2023
We congratulate the University of Bristol team for their success and for the worthy representation of the University of Bristol in this prestigious Olympiad!
Pure Mathematics welcomes Dr Alice Pozzi
The Institute for Pure Mathematics is delighted to welcome Dr Alice Pozzi, who joins us as a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics.
Statistics Institute welcomes two new lecturers
The Institute for Statistical Science is very pleased to welcome Dr Juliette (Ettie) Unwin and Dr Katarzyna Reluga, who have both joined as Lecturers in Statistical Science.
Prof. Jens Eggers awarded 2023 LMS Naylor Prize
Congratulations to Prof. Jens Eggers, who has been awarded the 2023 London Mathematical Society Naylor Prize.
Epidemic modelling paper published in JRSS(B)
Current and former Statistics Institute members Michael Whitehouse, Nick Whiteley and Lorenzo Rimella have had a paper related to epidemic modelling accepted in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B.
PhD student Mingxuan Yi & Compass CDT student, Daniel Williams' papers accepted into ICML 2023
Congratulations to Mingxuan Yi and Daniel Williams, who will have their papers published at ICML 2023.
Dr Yuri Netrusov, 1961-2023
Yuri Netrusov, Senior Lecturer and member of the School of Mathematics for nearly 20 years until his retirement in 2019, passed away in March. Misha Rudnev has written an appreciation of Yuri’s deep mathematical work along with a tribute to a friend and former colleague.
Postgraduate Compass students Hannah Sansford, Alex Modell and Josh Givens’s academic papers to be published at AISTATS 2023
The 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) is set to feature three of our Postgraduate Compass students.
Maths students share their top tips for good mental health
Baking, exercising with friends, meditation and getting a good night’s sleep are just some of the suggestions from students of ways to help support good mental health.
University Mental Health Day 2023
Join us for this year's University Mental Health Day on Thursday 9th March 2023, 10am-2pm @ Fry Building Atrium.
Professor Catherine Hobbs appointed Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research
The University of Bristol is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Catherine Hobbs as the new Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research (HIMR) and Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics Education.
Professor Oliver Johnson publishes new book, Numbercrunch
Professor's new book demystifies the everyday mathematics that surround us.
Maths research will add up to big benefits for everyone
A new research programme involving six UK universities, including Bristol, will help tackle cybercrime and increase resilience and carbon reduction in the electricity sector.
Tom Murdoch awarded OBE
We are delighted to share the news that Tom Murdoch was awarded an OBE in the New Years' Honours List.
Ryan Palmer - Latest paper making headlines
Congratulations to Ryan Palmer, who’s paper ‘The role of body shape and mass in skimming on water’ has received a lot of media attention.
Improbable sponsors Compass PhD student in new partnership
Improbable, a global technology company which provides innovative products and services to makers of virtual worlds and simulations, is sponsoring a PhD research project entitled Agent-based model calibration using likelihood-free inference.
Alumni return to maths to share their experiences
On 5 March 2019 we welcomed six alumni to talk to our current students about their employability journeys.
Christophe Andrieu and Anthony Lee win EPSRC grant
Congratulations to Christophe Andrieu and Anthony Lee who have won a £2.5M EPSRC Programme Grant "CoSInES" (COmputational Statistical INference for Engineering and Security) jointly with colleagues from Imperial College, Lancaster, Oxford and Warwick, with the participation of the Alan Turing Institute.
Christophe Andrieu wins EPSRC grant
Yi Yu awarded UOB- CUHK exchange programme grant
Heilbronn Research Fellowships
The School of Mathematics invites applications for one or more Research Fellowships in association with the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research. You will divide your time equally between your own research and the research programme of the Heilbronn Institute.
New Heilbronn Research Fellowships
Professor Jon Keating appointed new Chair of Heilbronn Institute
Professor Jon Keating has been appointed Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, which celebrates its ten-year anniversary in October this year.