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This page presents the programme for Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today 2026
Here is the schedule for TMT 2026, and links to recordings of talks where the studnet speakers are happy for the recordings to be public,
Each student talk has been allocated to a session and stream and has been given a start time. It is possible for attendees to move from one stream to another at the end of one of the talks. Note however that the times are indicative, and the order of talks within a session may change (for example, if one of the speakers has technical problems), so if you particularly want to hear one of the talks, you are advised to attend the whole of that stream.
The allocation of Chairs is provisional.
Click on each day to see the schedule for that day.
Recordings of student talks
Recordings of student talks
These are listed in alphabetical order of first name. More talks may be added in due course.
Sarah-Sonia Balan, University of Manchester - Emmy Noether's Ascending Chain of Abstraction
Sarbajit Ghosh, University of Leeds: Games in Model Theory - From Foundations to Weak EF-Games
Friday 13 March
Friday 13 March
6-8pm Reception for delegates at the University of Greenwich
Information about how to attend will be sent to those registered for the conference
Saturday 14 March
Saturday 14 March
13:30 Conference opening
13:40 - 14:40 - SESSION A
STREAM 1 (Chair Neil Saunders)
13:40 Steph Acaster, The Open University - Symmetry and Transformations in Music Composition and Perception
14:00 Belasim Moosavi, Birkbeck, University of London and Head of Maths, Abingdon School - Dyscalculia and maths education for SEN students
14:20 Annabel Wills, The Open University - Ramanujan’s Summation: Can summing positive integers ever equal a negative fraction?
STREAM 2 (Chair Robyn Goldsmith)
13:40 Pulak Banerjee Haldiya, University of Oxford - Where Should Elevators Wait? Medians and Optimal Parking under Non-Uniform Demand
14:00 Sarbajit Ghosh, University of Leeds: Games in Model Theory - From Foundations to Weak EF-Games
14:20 Maks Manowski, Sheffield Hallam University - Analysing Optimal Play in UNO: Human Strategies using Computational modelling
STREAM 3 (Chair Tony Mann)
13:40 Theodore Manning, Durham University - The Geometry of Diffusion: An Intuition for Turing Patterns
14:00 Méabh McKeagney, Heriot-Watt University - Invariants of Knots
14:20 Josie Smart, University of Birmingham - The Quantum Threat: An Introduction to Mathematical Encryption and Quantum Computing
14:50-15:30 - SESSION B
STREAM 1 (Chair Robyn Goldsmith)
15:10 Amelia Poppy Jean Cox, Royal Holloway University of London - When Statements Rebel: Self-Reference Strikes Back
STREAM 2 (Chair Tony Mann)
14:50 Sarah-Sonia Balan, University of Manchester - Emmy Noether's Ascending Chain of Abstraction
15:10 Eleanor Gray, University of Edinburgh - Cantor Middle Thirds Set
STREAM 3 (Chair Neil Saunders)
14:50 Junayd Ismail, University of Sussex - The Geometry of Gravity: From Metric Spaces to Geodesics
15:10 Ella R. Smart, City St George's, University of London - Stochastic Bifurcations
15:30-16:00 Online networking opportunity
16:00 - 17:00 - SESSION C
STREAM 1 (Chair Neil Saunders)
16:00 Lydia Bangura, University of Greenwich - Fermat's Little Theorem, its proofs, its history and its real-world applications
16:20 Finley Ilett, University of Durham - Symmetry of Polytopes from 3D Hyperbolic Tessellations
16:40 Evaristo Nogales Sancho, University College London - A Prime Topology: The Golomb Space
STREAM 2 (Chair Tony Mann)
16:00 Malaika Bahadar, University of West London - An Itô Calculus View of Stochastic Evolutionary Games and Noise-Induced Chaos
16:20 Leah Brocklebank, Royal Holloway, University of London - Calm to Crisis: Jump-Diffusion Models for European Options Pricing
16:40 Jed Ellender, University of Birmingham - Modelling climate risk in financial markets with random graphs
STREAM 3 (Chair Robyn Goldsmith)
16:00 Abel Miller, University of Sheffield - Optimised play in play-to-lose Misère searching games on spider graphs
16:20 Tupaq Rojas, Birkbeck, University of London - Quantifying Uncertainty: An Introduction to Information Theory
17:10-18:00
Saturday Keynote: Prof Aoife Hunt MBE, University of Greenwich, The Maths of Crowd Flow
18:00-18:30 Online networking opportunity
Sunday 15 March
Sunday 15 March
13:30 - 14:30 - SESSION D
STREAM 1 (Chair Ebrahim Patel)
13:30 Raahil Junaid, University of Birmingham - Islamic Art and Geometry
13:50 Oliver Rothnie, Durham University - The Bayesian paradigm and colour blindness
14:10 Elizabeth Shpectorov, University of York - Fractals and the Body
STREAM 2 (Chair Angus Grandison)
13:30 Mike Kenna, University of Greenwich - The Feasibility of Fantasy
13:50 Anuska Khanal, University of Greenwich - The Plot thickens
14:10 Sibgha Mirza, City St George's, University of London - Ethics behind Mathematical Degrees
STREAM 3 (Chair Ana Paula Palacios)
13:30 Halima Abdul-Halim, University of Leeds - Same Returns, Different Outcomes: When Financial Formulas Hide Risk
13:50 Shruti Burra, The Open University - From Growth Equations to DIPG Research: A Quantitative Model of Tumor Dynamics
14:10 Charley Williams, University of Sheffield - The evolution of a free-living host-parasite system
14:40 - 15:20 - SESSION E
STREAM 1 (Chair Angus Grandison)
14:40 Thea Johonnett, University of Sheffield - Efficient Statistical Modelling of Animal Movement
15:00 Yee Kiu Wong, University of Birmingham - Mathematical Modelling of Drug-Induced Cell Cycle Arrest in Cancer Cells
15:20 Koffi Samuel Ahibo, University of Greenwich - To what extent do Gödel incompleteness theorems refute the core ideas of Hilbert’s original program?
STREAM 2 (Chair Ana Paula Palacios)
14:40 Muhammad Subhan Feroze, Durham University - Extreme Proofs
15:00 Adhyayan Sharma, University of Bristol - Introduction to formalisation: Showcasing the Lean programming language
STREAM 3 (Chair Ebrahim Patel)
14:40 Alex Thoulé , University of Cambridge - The Ham Sandwich Theorem
15:00 Henry Varley, University of Sheffield - Mackey functors: streamlining Algebra via Category Theory
15:20 - 15:50 Online networking opportunity
15:50 - 16:50 - SESSION F
STREAM 1 (Chair Angus Grandison)
15:50 Oguz Kurtulus, City St George's, University of London - Nature as an Optimiser: The Principle of Least Action from Swings to Spacecraft
16:10 Ekin Ada Mese, City St George's, University of London - The Mathematics That Transformed Europe’s Fate
16:30 Louis Roddy, Loughborough University - From Physics to Finance: Deriving the Black-Scholes Model via the Heat Equation
STREAM 2 (Chair Ebrahim Patel)
15:50 Hoi Fung Cheng, University of Manchester - Fractional Calculus: Integrals and Derivatives of Non-Integer Order
16:10 Kiesha Shaw, University of Salford - Dynamics in a cubically-nonlinear model of the extensible pendulum
16:30 Hongyu Wang, Imperial College London - Algebraic D-modules and their Formalisation
STREAM 3 (Chair Tony Mann)
15:50 Lewis Cruz, Durham University - Suppressing the Snake Instability of Solitary Matter-Waves
16:10 Rowan Litting, Durham University - Entropy and the Recurrence Paradox
16:30 Ananya Vijjan, London School of Economics - The Mathematics Behind Unsolvable Puzzles: Modelling Games Using Abstract Algebra
17:00 - 17:50
Sunday Keynote: Dr Howard Haughton, King's College London - The Symmetry of Solutions: Why Diversity is a Mathematical Necessity
17:50 - 18:15
Conference conclusion, followed by online networking opportunity till 18:45
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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