2020 news
Prof. Julie Wilson is involved in a £3M interdisciplinary project, led at University of York by the Department of Computer Science, that will improve the ability of autonomous systems to reason about the impact of their decisions and actions on technical and social requirements and rules.
The research led by Dr Jamie Wood, Department of Biology and Mathematics at the University of York is developing a low cost, environmentally friendly method of processing sugar beet without the need for major industrial processing plants.
Mathematics student Sasha Ramani comes runner up in the British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM) Undergraduate Essay Prize.
New work by Mirjam Weilenmann and Roger Colbeck, published in the 'Physical Review Letters' journal, lays out an approach...
Prof. Degui Li is beginning work on a new research project looking at modelling high-frequency data in financial economics.
A consortium led by National Physical Laboratory (NPL) with academic collaboration from University of York's departments of Physics and Mathematics, has been awarded £2.8 million in the recent Innovate UK competition
The University of York and its partners are using quantum physics to improve the security of systems used to generate random numbers.
While the first half of the twentieth century marked a period of extraordinary violence, the world has become more peaceful in the past 30 years, a new statistical analysis of the global death toll from war suggests.
Professor Emeritus Fred Cornish, who was Head of Department between 1967-1977 has died, aged 89.
The Department welcomes back Craig Miller, who is joining us on a six-month London Mathematical Society Early Career Fellowship.
Gustav Delius and colleagues have written a paper on the epidemiology of COVID-19, re-purposing an Imperial College model to investigate the extent of COVID-19 exposure in the population.
Listen to Niall MacKay and Jamie Wood talking with Dan Snow about historical "what ifs?", including the Battle of Britain and the First World War at sea, on the "History Hit" podcast
Mathematicians have used a statistical technique to interrogate some of the big “what if” questions in the Second World War battle for Britain’s skies