2026

Richard Samworth selected for the 2025  IMS Grace Wahba Award and Lecture

Richard Samworth invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2026, to be held in Philadelphia 23-30 July.

2025

2025 Rouse Ball Lecture, Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich),  Causality-Inspired Machine Learning: A Path to More Robust AI Systems

2025 Mordell Lecture, Tim Austin,   Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory

2025 Peter Whittle Lecture Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago),  Algorithmic stability for regression and classification

DPMMS Departmental Colloquia, Perla Sousi, (Lent term)  The cutoff phenomenon for random walks

2024

2024 Rollo Davidson Lecture, Professor Allan Sly (Princeton), Spatial shuffling: the interchange process in dimension 5

2024 Rouse Ball Lecture, Professor Rachel Bearon (KCL) , A Mathematician’s Journey into Biology: Collaboration, Creativity & Opportunities

20024 Mordell Lecture, Rob Morris (IMPA Rio) , Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos

DPMMS Departmental Colloquia,  October 2024, MR2, Oscar Randal-Williams, Functions with no critical points.

DPMMS Departmental Colloquia - April 2024 Julia Wolf .  When is a mathematical object well behaved? 

DPMMS Departmental Colloquia - January 2024 Jack Thorne, Equidistribution and reciprocity in number theory

2023

Peter Whittle Lecture, Sourav Chatterjee , A new coefficient of correlation 

David Spiegelhalter and the Infected Blood Inquiry: David was part of a team giving extensive evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry. This was established to investigate the circumstances in which people were given infected blood and infected blood products, in particular in the 1970s and 1980s.

Rouse Ball Lecture, Melanie Matchett Wood (Harvard) , Universality for groups

Mordell Lecture, Aad van der Vaart (Delft), Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions 

2022

Rouse Ball Lecture,  Professor Jon Chapman (Oxford), Asymptotics beyond all orders: the devil's invention? 

Mordell Lecture,  Laure Saint-Raymond, (ENS Lyon), Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach 

2021

Rouse Ball Lecture, Professor Bjorn Poonen (MIT) , Undecidability in number theory