Head of School Professor Oliver Johnson appeared on the BBC this week (Wednesday 24 June) to explain the mysterious mathematical workings of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup.
Head of School Professor Oliver Johnson appeared on the BBC this week (Wednesday 24 June) to explain the mysterious mathematical workings of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup.
The University of Bristol's School of Mathematics is set for another positive year at the ICML conference, with its academic staff, postgraduate researchers and an undergraduate student named as authors on five papers accepted by the prestigious event.
A leading mathematician at the University of Bristol has been named as a recipient of one of Germany’s top academic accolades.
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.
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.
The 31st IMC 2024 took place in Bulgaria, where the team from Bristol improved upon previous years’ success, with an impressive 3 silver medals.
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
Fellow in Fluid Dynamics at the School of Maths, Dr Taylor-West, has won the UK Fluids Network Thesis prize 2024
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.
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’.
Lecturer from the School of Mathematics, Dr Laura Monk, is awarded a 2024 Breakthrough Prize at the 'Oscars of Science'
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.
It is with great pleasure that we welcome Professor James Maynard, FRS, this March.
The School of Maths welcomes Sam Power as a new Lecturer in the Institute of Statistical Science
Dr Celine Maisret has been accepted onto the academy’s SUSTAIN career development programme.
The School of Mathematics has been awarded an Athena Swan UK Silver Award for the second time.
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.
Nick Baskerville has been awarded the 2023 Doctoral Prize for Mathematical / Environmental Sciences
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.
Congratulations to Dr Nikolas Breuckmann on being awarded the ‘2023 James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize’
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 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.
The partnership will offer scholarships for students from low-income backgrounds to pursue a master’s and PhD study in the School of Mathematics.
Congratulations to Ashley Montanaro, who’s company, Phasecraft has secured more than £13m in funding to develop its revolutionary technology.
We congratulate the University of Bristol team for their success and for the worthy representation of the University of Bristol in this prestigious Olympiad!
The Institute for Pure Mathematics is delighted to welcome Dr Alice Pozzi, who joins us as a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics.
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.
Congratulations to Prof. Jens Eggers, who has been awarded the 2023 London Mathematical Society Naylor Prize.
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.
Congratulations to Mingxuan Yi and Daniel Williams, who will have their papers published at ICML 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.
The 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) is set to feature three of our Postgraduate Compass students.
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.
Join us for this year's University Mental Health Day on Thursday 9th March 2023, 10am-2pm @ Fry Building Atrium.
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's new book demystifies the everyday mathematics that surround us.
A new research programme involving six UK universities, including Bristol, will help tackle cybercrime and increase resilience and carbon reduction in the electricity sector.
We are delighted to share the news that Tom Murdoch was awarded an OBE in the New Years' Honours List.
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.
