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Welcome to DPMMS

The Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) (including the Statistical Laboratory as a sub-department) conducts teaching and research across a wide range of pure mathematics, probability and statistics. DPMMS currently hosts over 100 Academic and Research Staff and around 80 PhD students over three Pavilions as part of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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News & Events

Read more at: DPMMS Departmental Colloquia, Thursday 22 January, 4pm, MR2

DPMMS Departmental Colloquia, Thursday 22 January, 4pm, MR2

Richard Samworth, "Nonparametric inference under shape constraints: past, present and future".

Read more at: Congratulations to Mihalis Dafermos

Congratulations to Mihalis Dafermos

jointly awarded the AMS Bôcher Memorial Prize

Read more at: Congratulations to Richard Samworth and Julian Sahasrabudhe

Congratulations to Richard Samworth and Julian Sahasrabudhe

invited speakers at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2026

Read more at: Congratulations to Perla Sousi

Congratulations to Perla Sousi

awarded a LMS Whitehead Prize

Read more at: Congratulations to Po-Ling Loh on her promotion to Professor of Statistics (Grade 12)

Congratulations to Po-Ling Loh on her promotion to Professor of Statistics (Grade 12)

Read more at: Congratulations to Julian Sahasrabudhe on his promotion to Professor of Combinatorics (Grade 11)

Congratulations to Julian Sahasrabudhe on his promotion to Professor of Combinatorics (Grade 11)

News and Events

19

Jan

14:00 - 15:00: Global well-posedness of the stochastic Abelian-Higgs equations in two dimensions.

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Bjoern Bringmann (Princeton University)

21

Jan

16:30 - 17:30: Cluster algebras, cluster categories, and higher cluster categories

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Nicolas Williams, University of Cambridge

21

Jan

16:30 - 18:00: Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 I

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Speaker to be confirmed

22

Jan

16:00 - 17:00: Nonparametric inference under shape constraints: past, present and future

DPMMS Departmental Colloquia

Richard Samworth (Cambridge)

22

Jan

17:00 - 18:00: Lean4Less: Translating Lean to Smaller Theories via an Extensional-to-Intensional Translation

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Rishikesh Vaishnav (ENS Paris-Saclay)

23

Jan

13:45 - 14:45: Subgroup mixing in Baumslag-Solitar groups

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Sasha Bontemps (ENS Lyon)