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Aperiodic order

Aperiodic order

Uwe Grimm's research into the mathematics behind quasicrystals.

Pharmacoepidemiology

Pharmacoepidemiology

Heather Whitaker's work on the groundbreaking self-controlled case series (SCCS) method developed at the OU, which provided the first substantive evidence to discredit the link between MMR and autism.

Spintronics

Spintronics

Andrey Umerski's predictions on quantum tunneling changed hard disks forever.

Some of our featured students and graduates

Student stories

Read about some of our students and graduates who are using their OU studies to do great things.

Infinite spider's web

Complex dynamics

Spider's webs: the beautiful new fractal structure discovered by Phil Rippon and Gwyneth Stallard while studying systems of complex numbers that evolve over time.

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Athena Swan - Bronze Award

Good Practice Scheme - Advancing women's careers in university mathematical sciences departments.

News

Monday, May 21st 2018

Dr Katie Chicot appointed as Chief Executive Officer of MathsWorldUK
Dr Katie Chicot has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of MathsWorldUK. The appointment is for...
Thursday, Mar 15th 2018

£200k EPSRC New Investigator Award for Marc Pradas
Congratulations to Marc Pradas, who have been awarded a £200k New Investigator Award by the...

Seminars and Events

Tuesday, Jun 26th 2018, Alan Turing Room 306

Margaret Stanier (Open University)

An algorithm on the convergence of integer continued fractions

Tuesday, Jun 26th 2018, Alan Turing Room 306

David Marchant: (Open University)

A lower bound for the proportion of permutations where the principal Möbius function is zero

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