Prizes for the Best Presentations

Thanks to the generosity of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, two prizes will be awarded to presenters at TMT 2024: the IMA Prize for the Best Presentation (assessed by a panel, with a shortlist drawn up in advance) and the IMA Popular Vote Prize (assessed by a poll of conference attendees, with all presentations being eligible).

The IMA Prize for the Best Presentation is awarded to Andi Hani of Warwick University for his paper The complex relationship between deprivation and disease.

The IMA Popular Vote Prize is awarded to Mingjia Yan, Imperial College London, for her paper Geometric Mechanics in Soft Matter.

14 February 2024: The following papers have been shortlisted for the IMA Prize for the Best Presentation.  The panel had an enormously difficult task selecting from the many excellent proposals: unfortunately not all could be shortlisted and some excellent papers could not be selected.  All papers presented will be eligible for the IMA Popular Vote Prize.

Simon Ciavarro, Durham University, Beyond Integers: Exploring Fractional Calculus
Bruno Eaves, Ivan Noden, and Ioannis Pantelidakis, University College London, Patterns in Primes: The Bunyakovsky Conjecture
Andi Hani, University of Warwick, The complex relationship between deprivation and disease
Elizabeth Holland, Durham University, A Tropical Trip Through Smale’s 9th Problem And More
Mehrdad Jafari, University of Salford, Dynamics and Chaos in Extensible Pendulum System
Eugene Shcherbinin, London School of Economics, Systemic Risk Modelling: Using Network Theory to Ensure Resilience of the Financial System

UPDATE (January 2024): In addition to a cash prize the IMA Prize for the best presentation will now include an invitation to present in the IMA Early Career Mathematicians group's virtual seminar series!

Here for information are the instructions published with the Call for Papers:

If you wish your paper to be considered for the IMA Prize for the Best Presentation you must submit an abstract in the usual way, and also provide a separate statement of no more than 400 words saying why you have chosen the topic and explaining why the talk will be of interest to an audience of mathematics undergraduates at TMT. If you have worked on the topic as part of your university studies, or if the work is collaborative, please mention that (these are positive factors but are not a requirement for entering your talk for the prize).

 The shortlisted talks will be those where the submissions best show that the talk will interest the undergraduate audience, with originality and collaboration being considered as tie-breakers.

 The criteria for the prize award will include the understanding you demonstrate of your chosen topic, and the quality of preparation and delivery of your presentation. 

 Your application should be sent to us at tmt@gre.ac.uk by 1pm on Friday 12 January 2024 (which is also the deadline for abstract submission).  The shortlist will be announced in February.