This page presents the programme for Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today 2025
Here is the schedule for TMT 2025. Click on one of the days to see the schedule for that day.
All student papers presented were considered for the GCHQ Prize for the Best Undergraduate Presentation and the Popular Vote prize.
Last updated 15/6/2025
Here are links to recordings of talks from TMT2025 where the speakers have given us permission to link to them. Further links may be provided in the future - If you are a speaker and would like us to link to your recording, please email tmt@gre.ac.uk. Student talks are listed in alphabetical order of last name.
Keynote talk - Professor Alan Champneys, Saturday 15 March
Keynote talk - Professor Rachel Hilliam, Sunday 16 March
Hoi Fung Cheng, University of Manchester, Formalising Natural Numbers
Niyati Gupta, University of Greenwich, The Mathematics of Your Brain
Hinay Patel, University of Warwick, Unraveling Knots: the Topology of Everyday Tangles (unfortunately Hinay was indisposed on the day and unable to deliver the talk but has made the presentation available)
6-8pm Reception for delegates at the University of Greenwich
Information about how to attend will be sent to those registered for the conference
13:30 Conference Introduction
13:40 - 14:40 Session 1
Stream A: Chair Robyn Goldsmith
13:40 Henry Oldroyd, University of Lancaster, Latent space in machine learning
14:00 Cenk Goren, University of Warwick, Introduction to the Multiple Linear Regression Model
14:20 James Sykes, Durham University, The Deep Challenge of Distributional Reinforcement Learning
Stream B: Chair Maciej Matuszewski
13:40 Nishita Bhowmik, Durham University, Inflation and Cosmological Correlators: Insights from dS/CFT
14:00 Sam Kay, Durham University, A Symmetric Universe
14:20 Adhyayan Sharma, University of Bristol, Investigating Critical Probability in Percolation Theory
Stream C: Chair Tony Mann
14:00 Tsz Hong Ip, University of Nottingham, Between Addition, Multiplication and Beyond: Hyperoperations of Non-integral Ranks
14:20 Freddie Carter, University of Sheffield, Scissors Congruences
14:50 - 15:50 Session 2
Stream A: Chair Ebrahim Patel
14:50 Matthew Black, Durham University, Backward Bifurcations in Epidemiology
15:10 Thomas Shaw, Durham University, Differential Equations in Mathematical Biology
15:30 Niyati Gupta, University of Greenwich, The Mathematics of Your Brain
Stream B: Chair James Van Yperen
14:50 Moiz Saleem, University of Bristol, Translating Cointegration to Profits in the Financial Markets
15:10 Perry Hui, University of Bristol, Pairs Trading
15:30 Anant Pathak, London School of Economics, Moments and Managing the Unexpected; Quantitative Risk Management
Stream C: Chair Tony Mann
14:50 Hoi Fung Cheng, University of Manchester, Formalising Natural Numbers
15:10 Cassia Pearce, Durham University, 2,3,4 ... But No More: Exploring The Insolvability Of Quintics By Radicals
15:30 Amelia Cox, Royal Holloway, University of London, Gödel’s incompleteness theorems: The proof of (sometimes) not having a proof
15:50-16:20 Break / Networking
16:20 - 17:00 Session 3
Stream A: Chair James Van Yperen
16;20 Sarbajit Ghosh, Birkbeck University of London, Cylindric Set Algebras and Robbins Problem
Stream B: Chair Ebrahim Patel
16:20 Robert Graham, University of Lancaster, Clifford Group Equivariant Neural Networks
16:40 Joseph Griggs, University of Sheffield, Patterns in Fractal Sets
Stream C: Chair Maciej Matuszewski
16:20 Ananya Garg, University of Warwick, “Watts Up?”: Minimizing power loss in electrical networks
16:40 Daniel Yeoman, Durham University, Optimisation in Modern Computing, Mathematics at the Heart of Efficiency
17:05 - 18:10 Saturday Keynote. Chair Robyn Goldsmith
Professor Alan Champneys, University of Bristol, Breaking the rules: the role of creativity in the mathematical sciences
18:10 - 18:30 Networking
13:00-13:30 Networking
13:30 - 14:30 Session 4
Stream A: Chair Ebrahim Patel
13:30 Barbaros Zeren and Yash Vaghela, Queen Mary University of London, Childhood in Motion: Mathematical Insights into Playground Swings
13:50 Muhie Al Haimus and Allegra Celesia, Queen Mary University of London, String and Spin: The Mathematics of Yo-Yo Tricks
14:10 Abby Saynor, University of Birmingham, Conditions for Oscillating Solutions in Opinion Dynamics
Stream B: Chair Tony Mann
13:50 Zafar Bakhromov, The Open University, The Well-Ordering Principle and Transfinite Induction
14:10 Luke Garner, University of Exeter, Examining characteristics of car drivers involved in collisions using splines
Stream C: Chair Maciej Matuszewski
13:30 Eilis Meldrum-Dolan, University of Greenwich, What is Network Meta-Analysis, and how can we use it correctly?
13:50 Zidong Chen, University of Sheffield, An Introduction to Multifidelity Bayesian Optimization in Machine Learning
14:10 Adam Snelling, Imperial College London, Methods for Bayesian Filtering
14:40 - 15:40 Session 5
Stream A: Chair Angus Grandison
14:40 George Boustany, University of Salford, Discrete dynamics on C: periodic orbits, fractal boundaries, and basin entropy
15:00 Alex Thoulé, Cambridge University, Delay Differential Equations in Population Dynamics
15:20 Angelika Andrijevska, University of Sheffield, A Numerical Investigation into an Inverse Heat Problem
Stream B: Chair Tom Hobson
14:40 Thomas Hutton, Cardiff University, Evolutionary Game Theoretic Emergent Behaviour in Stochastic Queuing Systems
15:00 Chenyang Zhao, Imperial College London, Exploring Game Theory via Algebraic Geometry with Macaulay2 Package Development
15:20 Visesh Akbari, City St George's, University of London, Game Theory and Asymmetric Information: Strategies and Solutions
Stream C: Chair Tony Mann
14:40 Mary Mpiani, Queen Mary University of London, The Mathematics Behind the London Underground Tube Map
15:00 No Talk
15:20 Ananya Vijjan, London School of Economics, The Legacy of Kurt Gödel
15:40-16:10 Break / Networking
16:10 - 16:50 Session 6
Stream A: Chair Tony Mann
16:10 Anya Khurana, Cambridge University, Lattices and sums of squares
16:30 Mara Postolache, Cambridge University, Otto Calculus and Gradient Flows on the Manifold of Probability Measures
Stream B: Chair Angus Grandison
16:30 Hugh Coleman, The Open University, Why horses are not spherically symmetrical - Turing's mathematics of symmetry breaking and patterning
Stream C: Chair Tom Hobson
16:10 Oliver Rothnie, Durham University, Self-similarity, triangles, and fractals
16:30 Philipp Wiedemann, University of Oxford, Infinite Galois Theory and its Representations
17:00- 17:55 Sunday Keynote. Chair Ebrahim Patel
Professor Rachel Hilliam, The Open University, A career in mathematical sciences: A directed graph or a random walk?
17:55 - 18:10 Conference Wrap-up
18:10 - 18:40 Networking
The speakers' abstracts will be available in due course via the abstracts page.
For further information or to contact the organisers tmt@gre.ac.uk.
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