News and events In 'News and events' Latest newsResearch conferences and seminarsBirmingham Popular Maths LectureGrant newsNewsletter Project launches to improve equality, diversity and inclusion in engineering and physical sciences DescriptionThe University of Birmingham has been awarded a slice of £5.5 million funding for a project to improve equality, diversity and inclusion in engineering and physical sciences. Latest School of Mathematics newsletter out now DescriptionThe latest issue of the University of Birmingham's School of Mathematics Newsletter is out now. In the newsletter, you'l find a welcome to Professor Marta Mazzocco, who has recently joined Birmingham from Loughborough University. You can also read about the School's major grant successes, latest research and recent workshops and events. Birmingham mathematician secures ERC advanced research grant DescriptionProfessor Daniela Kühn, the Mason Chair in Mathematics at the University of Birmingham has recently been awarded a €1.8m research grant to study extremal combinatorics, a field of mathematics focused on the structure of finite objects. Birmingham academics proud parents of BBC Young Musician 2018 competition winner DescriptionAmongst the many people congratulating Lauren Zhang, the teenage pianist from Birmingham who yesterday (13 May) won the prestigious BBC Young Musician 2018 competition, none are more proud than Lauren's parents, Shuang Zhang and Hui Li. Microbeads to combat infection show promise in burn wound simulations DescriptionComputer simulations of microscopic, protein-coated beads that block bacteria from binding to host cells suggest that the microbeads could help reduce or eliminate bacterial infections in burn wounds. Dr Paul Roberts from the University of Birmingham's School of Mathematics, UK., and colleagues present these new findings, funded by the BBSRC, in the journal PLOS Computational Biology. To infinity and beyond DescriptionFeature on the career of Professor Chris Good, Deputy Head of the School of Mathematics at the University of Birmingham. New Professor appointed to the School of Mathematics DescriptionThe University of Birmingham is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Marta Mazzocco at the School of Mathematics. Birmingham mathematician takes his research to Parliament DescriptionDr Meurig Gallagher, 29, a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, hailing from Tongwynlais, Cardiff, is attending Parliament to present his mathematics research to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of STEM for BRITAIN on Monday 12 March. Birmingham researchers chosen to help deliver £6.6 million transformative research programme DescriptionThe Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has enlisted the support of researchers at the University of Birmingham to help deliver an ambitious £6.6 million programme of transformative engineering research, in an announcement made last week (15 January), to mark the Year of Engineering. Classic mathematical model could help treat infertility DescriptionUsing mathematics to treat male infertility might seem rather unlikely, but Birmingham postgraduate student Gemma Cupples has taken a classic mathematical model and extended it to create a way to study the swimming behaviour of sperm that could lead to better conception rates. Displaying 1 to 10 of 60 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next