As health systems face budget constraints and shifting aid priorities, University of York researchers have contributed to the HIV Modelling Consortium to explore how economic theories from finance and climate change can refine health investment decisions amid high uncertainty and declining global aid. In two short videos, Professor Jacco Thijssen and Professor Mark Freeman share key insights, exploring how "real options" and "insurance value" concepts can help decision-makers in formulating policies for HIV control.

The results of the 2026 National Student Survey have revealed the strengths of the Department of Mathematics in ‘Learning Resources’

Professor Chris Fewster has won a top international prize for a paper that makes a "landmark contribution" to quantum physics.

Mathematicians consider whether the Battle of the Atlantic could have had a different outcome if the Germans had changed their strategy.

Congratulations to Prof Nicolas Gisin on the award of an honorary doctorate by the University for his work in quantum communication and foundations.

Many congratulations to Prof Reidun Twarock, who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Dr Chris Bowman’s new book, Diagrammatic Algebra (with a foreword by Geordie Williamson), is now available from Springer.

The Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations 2024 has been awarded to Chris Fewster and Rainer Verch for their paper Quantum Fields and Local Measurements, In recognition of its landmark contribution to the foundations of relativistic quantum theory.