Programme

Here is the list of student talks to be presented at TMT 2026.  The times of each talk will be published here in due course.

Halima Abdul-Halim, University of Leeds - Same Returns, Different Outcomes: When Financial Formulas Hide Risk

Steph Acaster, The Open University - Symmetry and Transformations in Music Composition and Perception

Koffi Samuel Ahibo, University of Greenwich - To what extent do Gödel incompleteness theorems refute the core ideas of Hilbert’s original program?

Malaika Bahadar, University of West London - An Itô Calculus View of Stochastic Evolutionary Games and Noise-Induced Chaos

Sarah-Sonia Balan, University of Manchester - Emmy Noether's Ascending Chain of Abstraction 

Pulak Banerjee Haldiya, University of Oxford - Where Should Elevators Wait? Medians and Optimal Parking under Non-Uniform Demand

Leah Brocklebank, Royal Holloway, University of London - Calm to Crisis: Jump-Diffusion Models for European Options Pricing

Shruti  Burra, The Open University - From Growth Equations to DIPG Research: A Quantitative Model of Tumor Dynamics

Hoi Fung Cheng, University of Manchester - Fractional Calculus: Integrals and Derivatives of Noninteger Order
Amelia Poppy Jean Cox, Royal Holloway University of London - When Statements Rebel: Self-Reference Strikes Back

Lewis Cruz, Durham University - Suppressing the Snake Instability of Solitary Matter-Waves

Jed Ellender, University of Birmingham - Modelling climate risk in financial markets with random graphs

Muhammad  Subhan Feroze, Durham University - Extreme Proofs

Sarbajit Ghosh, University of Leeds: Games in Model Theory - From Foundations to Weak EF-Games

Eleanor Gray, University of Edinburgh - Cantor Middle Thirds Set

Finley Ilett, University of Durham - Symmetry of Polytopes from 3D Hyperbolic Tessellations

Junayd Ismail, University of Sussex - The Geometry of Gravity: From Metric Spaces to Geodesics

Thea Johonnett, University of Sheffield - Efficient Statistical Modelling of Animal Movement

Raahil Junaid, University of Birmingham - Islamic Art and Geometry

Mike Kenna, University of Greenwich - The Feasibility of Fantasy

Anuska  Khanal, University of Greenwich - The Plot thickens 

Oguz Kurtulus, City St George's, University of London - Nature as an Optimiser: The Principle of Least Action from Swings to Spacecraft

Rowan Litting, Durham University - Entropy and the Recurrence Paradox

Theodore Manning, Durham University - The Geometry of Diffusion: An Intuition for Turing Patterns

Maks Manowski, Sheffield Hallam University - Analysing Optimal Play in UNO: Human Strategies using Computational modelling

Méabh McKeagney, Heriot-Watt University - Invariants of Knots

Ekin Ada Mese, City St George's, University of London - The Mathematics That Transformed Europe’s Fate

Abel Miller, University of Sheffield - Optimised play in play-to-lose Misère searching games on spider graphs

Sibgha Mirza, City St George's, University of London - Ethics behind Mathematical Degrees

Belasim Moosavi, Birkbeck, University of London and Head of Maths, Abingdon School - Dyscalculia and maths education for SEN students

Evaristo Nogales Sancho, University College London - A Prime Topology: The Golomb Space

Louis Roddy, Loughborough University - From Physics to Finance: Deriving the Black-Scholes Model via the Heat Equation

Tupaq Rojas, Birkbeck, University of London - Quantifying Uncertainty: An Introduction to Information Theory

Oliver Rothnie, Durham University - The Bayesian paradigm and colour blindness

Adhyayan Sharma, University of Bristol - Introduction to formalisation: Showcasing the Lean programming language

Kiesha Shaw, University of Salford - Dynamics in a cubically-nonlinear model of the extensible pendulum

Elizabeth Shpectorov, University of York - Fractals and the Body
Ella R. Smart, City St George's, University of London - Bifurcation Dynamics under Gaussian and Bounded Noise

Josie Smart, University of Birmingham - The Quantum Threat: An Introduction to Mathematical Encryption and Quantum Computing

Alex Thoulé , University of Cambridge - The Ham Sandwich Theorem

Henry Varley, University of Sheffield - Mackey functors: streamlining Algebra via Category Theory

Ananya Vijjan, London School of Economics - The Mathematics Behind Unsolvable Puzzles: Modelling Games Using Abstract Algebra

Hongyu Wang, Imperial College London - Algebraic D-modules and their Formalisation

Charley Williams, University of Sheffield - The evolution of a free-living host-parasite system

Annabel Wills, The Open University - Ramanujan’s Summation: Can summing positive integers ever equal a negative fraction?

Yee Kiu Wong, University of Birmingham - Mathematical Modelling of Drug-Induced Cell Cycle Arrest in Cancer Cells