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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: Congratulations to Jason Miller

Congratulations to Jason Miller

Awarded the 2025 Loève Prize for Probability

Read more at: Academy for the Mathematical Sciences

Academy for the Mathematical Sciences

Seven Cambridge researchers have been appointed Fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences. The inaugural cohort of 100 Fellows brings together the UK’s strongest mathematicians across academia, education, business, industry, and government to help solve some of the UK’s biggest challenges.

Read more at: Congratulations to Dhruv Ranganathan

Congratulations to Dhruv Ranganathan

awarded 2025 Faculty of Mathematics Lecturing Prize

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

News and Events

06

Feb

13:45 - 14:45: The flat closing problem

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Bruno Martelli (Università di Pisa)

06

Feb

14:00 - 15:00: Nonparametric Bayesian intensity estimation for covariate-driven point processes

Statistics

Matteo Giordano (Università degli Studi di Torino)

09

Feb

14:00 - 15:00: Critical collapse in 2+1 gravity

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Serban Cicortas (Princeton University)

10

Feb

14:00 - 15:00: Large deviations in sparse random graphs

Probability

Anirban Basak (ICTS, Tata Institute)

10

Feb

14:30 - 15:30: The average 6-torsion

Number Theory Seminar

Peter Koymans (Utrecht University)

11

Feb

13:30 - 14:30: Finding the distribution of random multiplicative functions in short intervals

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Adam Harper (University of Warwick)