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Babbage Archive

Oxford’s History of Science Museum holds important material associated with Charles Babbage, including components of Babbage’s first (unfinished) mechanical computing machine and an archive of his personal notes about his machines. With support from CMI, the Museum undertook a project to conserve and digitise this precious archive of Babbage material. Image courtesy of the History […]

2025 Clay Research Fellows

The Clay Mathematics Institute is pleased to announce that Ryan Chen, Alex Cohen and Anna Skorobogatova have been awarded Clay Research Fellowships. Ryan Chen will receive his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2025, where he works under the guidance of Wei Zhang. Ryan has been appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for […]

2024 Clay Research Award

STEM for Britain

Congratulations to Daniel Graham (Surrey) who won the Gold Medal for Mathematical Sciences at the 2024 STEM for Britain poster completion for his poster Passwordless Authentication in a Quantum Future. Daniel was among 20 researchers in mathematics presenting their work to politicians and a panel of expert judges in the House of Commons on March […]

2024 Clay Research Fellows

The Clay Mathematics Institute is pleased to announce that Ishan Levy and Mehtaab Sawhney have been awarded Clay Research Fellowships. Ishan Levy will receive his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2024, under the supervision of Michael Hopkins. Ishan has been appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for five years beginning 1 July 2024. Mehtaab […]

2023 Clay Research Award

A Clay Research Award is made to Frank Merle (IHES, Paris), Pierre Raphaël (Cambridge), Igor Rodnianski (Princeton), and Jérémie Szeftel (Sorbonne Université, Paris). The award is made in recognition of their profound contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations. Merle, Raphaël, Rodnianski and Szeftel are recognised, in particular, for their groundbreaking advances in […]

2023 Clay Research Fellows

The Clay Mathematics Institute is pleased to announce that Paul Minter and Huy Tuan Pham have been awarded Clay Research Fellowships. Paul Minter obtained his PhD in 2022 from the University of Cambridge, advised by Neshan Wickramasekera.  Paul has been appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for four years beginning 1 July 2023.  Huy Tuan Pham will receive his […]

Maths + Cancer Podcast

PROMYS Europe Executive Director, Vicky Neale, hosts the podcast series Maths + Cancer, exploring the extraordinary and unexpected ways mathematics and statistics is being applied to cancer research across Oxford and beyond.  Throughout the series, Vicky talks to a range of experts to find out more about the role of mathematics and statistics in cancer research, […]

Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize

Congratulations to Clay Research Fellow Maggie Miller who has been awarded a 2023 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her work on fibered ribbon knots and surfaces in 4-dimensional manifolds.

2022 Fields Medals

The Clay Mathematics Institute extends its heartfelt congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Fields Medals, awarded by the IMU at a special ceremony in Helsinki on 5 July. Two of the four winners are former Clay Research Fellows — June Huh (2014-19) and James Maynard (2015-18) — while Maryna Viazovska was the recipient of […]

2022 Clay Research Award

2022 Clay Research Conference

The Clay Research Conference is returning to the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, with an in-person event on 28 September 2022. The plenary speakers will be Bhargav Bhatt, Igor Rodnianski, and Jacob Tsimerman.  Associated workshops will be held throughout the week of the conference, 26-30 September: p-adic Hodge Theory and Applications (Bhargav Bhatt, Akhil Mathew); O-minimality and Diophantine Geometry (Gareth Jones, Alex Wilkie); Stability […]