UoE School of Maths secures £2.4M from XTX Markets to boost pure mathematics research
The School of Mathematics has received a major philanthropic gift of £2.4 million from XTX Markets, a leading London-based algorithmic trading firm, creating new opportunities for postgraduate and early-career researchers. This funding will strengthen our capacity for world-leading research in pure mathematics by supporting the recruitment of outstanding PhD students and postdoctoral researchers over the […]
ERC Advanced Grant Success for Des Higham
Des Higham has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his project “Numerical Analysis for Stable AI”. The project will identify, quantify and mitigate vulnerabilities in current artificial intelligence algorithms from a numerical analysis perspective. Novel mathematical research will emerge along six overlapping axes: inevitability; editability; targetability; universality; roundability; legislatability. The project will identify high-profile […]
ERC Starting Grant Success for Ofer Busani and Leonardo Tolomeo
Ofer’s project “Universality in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang class” aims to solve central open problems in the study of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang class which consists of a large set of models, sharing common microscopic dynamical features as well as develop new tools to study the models. Leonardo’s project “Overcoming Criticality for PDEs with Randomness” is concerned with the […]
Ben Davison is invited speaker for ICM 2026
Professor Davison has been invited to speak at the next International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) which will take place in Philadelphia in 2026. The ICM, which has been running since 1897, takes place only once every four years. Being an invited ICM speaker is considered one of the most prestigious honours within the mathematical community. […]
£2 million project to develop insurance for AI risks
Professor Lukasz Szpruch is the lead academic on a £2m UKRI Prosperity Partnership project to develop novel methods to understand, measure, and ultimately insure against risk associated with the commercial application of artificial intelligence. Lukasz will work with colleagues from WMG University of Warwick and the University of Oxford, alongside insurance group AXA. The academic-industry […]
Jack Carr PhD Internship Programme
Two internships are available to current PhD students in an African university to spend up to 6 weeks doing research related to their PhD topic at the Maxwell Institute in Edinburgh. A grant of up to £ 4,000, offered by the Jack Carr Fund, will cove travel, accommodation and subsistence costs for the duration of […]
Alexandre Martin awarded EPSRC Standard Grant
Dr. Alexandre Martin(Heriot-Watt) received an EPSRC Standard Grant in total value of £620K to work on the project titled “The Geometry of the Isomorphism Problem for Artin Groups.” The project will commence in September 2025, last for 3 years and involve a postdoctoral fellow.
Lorenzo Pareschi receives €2 million funding to help predict the unexpected
Prof. Lorenzo Pareschi, Chair of Applied Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University, received an Advanced Grant from the Italian Science Fund (FIS) in value of 2 million euros to study and better understand and predict complex phenomena such as epidemics, traffic, the economy and even how opinions spread on social media. See details here.
Víctor Elvira secures £1m ARIA funding to forecast climate tipping points
Víctor Elvira, Chair of Statistics and Data Science, has been awarded £1 million by Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) to investigate and forecast climate tipping points — thresholds that, once crossed, will likely lead to cascading and irreversible changes to Earth’s climate. Major parts of the Earth system are at risk of crossing climate […]
John Pearson awarded EPSRC Standard Grant
John Pearson has been awarded funding from EPSRC for his project “Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra for Optimization and Control of PDEs”. The project is in collaboration with Stefan Güttel, University of Manchester and a PDRA will be employed at both institutions to work on the project. Partial differential equations (PDEs) are used to describe mathematically […]