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This page presents the programme for Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today 2026
Here is the PROVISONAL schedule for TMT 2026. Note that this is subject to change.
Click on each day to see the schedule for that day.
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
STREAM A
Steph Acaster, The Open University - Symmetry and Transformations in Music Composition and Perception
Belasim Moosavi, Birkbeck, University of London and Head of Maths, Abingdon School - Dyscalculia and maths education for SEN students
Annabel Wills, The Open University - Ramanujan’s Summation: Can summing positive integers ever equal a negative fraction?
STREAM B
Pulak Banerjee Haldiya, University of Oxford - Where Should Elevators Wait? Medians and Optimal Parking under Non-Uniform Demand
Sarbajit Ghosh, University of Leeds: Games in Model Theory - From Foundations to Weak EF-Games
Maks Manowski, Sheffield Hallam University - Analysing Optimal Play in UNO: Human Strategies using Computational modelling
STREAM C
Theodore Manning, Durham University - The Geometry of Diffusion: An Intuition for Turing Patterns
Méabh McKeagney, Heriot-Watt University - Invariants of Knots
Josie Smart, University of Birmingham - The Quantum Threat: An Introduction to Mathematical Encryption and Quantum Computing
14:50-15:30
STREAM A
Koffi Samuel Ahibo, University of Greenwich - To what extent do Gödel incompleteness theorems refute the core ideas of Hilbert’s original program?
Amelia Poppy Jean Cox, Royal Holloway University of London - When Statements Rebel: Self-Reference Strikes Back
STREAM B
Sarah-Sonia Balan, University of Manchester - Emmy Noether's Ascending Chain of Abstraction
Eleanor Gray, University of Edinburgh - Cantor Middle Thirds Set
STREAM C
Junayd Ismail, University of Sussex - The Geometry of Gravity: From Metric Spaces to Geodesics
Ella R. Smart, City St George's, University of London - Stochastic Bifurcations
16:00 - 17:00
STREAM A
Lydia Bangura, University of Greenwich - Fermat's Little Theorem, its proofs, its history and its real-world applications
Finley Ilett, University of Durham - Symmetry of Polytopes from 3D Hyperbolic Tessellations
Evaristo Nogales Sancho, University College London - A Prime Topology: The Golomb Space
STREAM B
Malaika Bahadar, University of West London - An Itô Calculus View of Stochastic Evolutionary Games and Noise-Induced Chaos
Leah Brocklebank, Royal Holloway, University of London - Calm to Crisis: Jump-Diffusion Models for European Options Pricing
Jed Ellender, University of Birmingham - Modelling climate risk in financial markets with random graphs
STREAM C
Abel Miller, University of Sheffield - Optimised play in play-to-lose Misère searching games on spider graphs
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
Sunday 15 March
Sunday 15 March
13:30 - 14:30
STREAM A
Raahil Junaid, University of Birmingham - Islamic Art and Geometry
Oliver Rothnie, Durham University - The Bayesian paradigm and colour blindness
Elizabeth Shpectorov, University of York - Fractals and the Body
STREAM B
Mike Kenna, University of Greenwich - The Feasibility of Fantasy
Anuska Khanal, University of Greenwich - The Plot thickens
Sibgha Mirza, City St George's, University of London - Ethics behind Mathematical Degrees
STREAM C
Halima Abdul-Halim, University of Leeds - Same Returns, Different Outcomes: When Financial Formulas Hide Risk
Shruti Burra, The Open University - From Growth Equations to DIPG Research: A Quantitative Model of Tumor Dynamics
Charley Williams, University of Sheffield - The evolution of a free-living host-parasite system
14:40 - 15:20
STREAM A
Thea Johonnett, University of Sheffield - Efficient Statistical Modelling of Animal Movement
Yee Kiu Wong, University of Birmingham - Mathematical Modelling of Drug-Induced Cell Cycle Arrest in Cancer Cells
STREAM B
Muhammad Subhan Feroze, Durham University - Extreme Proofs
Adhyayan Sharma, University of Bristol - Introduction to formalisation: Showcasing the Lean programming language
STREAM C
Alex Thoulé , University of Cambridge - The Ham Sandwich Theorem
Henry Varley, University of Sheffield - Mackey functors: streamlining Algebra via Category Theory
15:50 - 16:50
STREAM A
Oguz Kurtulus, City St George's, University of London - Nature as an Optimiser: The Principle of Least Action from Swings to Spacecraft
Ekin Ada Mese, City St George's, University of London - The Mathematics That Transformed Europe’s Fate
Louis Roddy, Loughborough University - From Physics to Finance: Deriving the Black-Scholes Model via the Heat Equation
STREAM B
Hoi Fung Cheng, University of Manchester - Fractional Calculus: Integrals and Derivatives of Non-Integer Order
Kiesha Shaw, University of Salford - Dynamics in a cubically-nonlinear model of the extensible pendulum
Hongyu Wang, Imperial College London - Algebraic D-modules and their Formalisation
STREAM C
Lewis Cruz, Durham University - Suppressing the Snake Instability of Solitary Matter-Waves
Rowan Litting, Durham University - Entropy and the Recurrence Paradox
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
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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