CaMS

Mark Sewards MP has tabled a series of written parliamentary questions on behalf of CaMS. Sewards, a former maths teacher before entering Parliament, sought clarification on funding for mathematical sciences within the reformed Strategic Priorities Grant (SPG).   The SPG is UK government funding distributed by the Office for Students (OfS) to higher education providers, primarily focused on “high cost”, strategically important subjects. It is intended to ensure universities can invest in...

The UK Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Sciences (KE Hub) has published its Start-Up Phase Report.   The KE Hub is a national, virtual, UK academic organisation funded by EPSRC that exists to facilitate activity at the interface between academic mathematical scientists and Business, Industry, and Government. 

The Financial Times have published an article from University of Glasgow Professor Muffy Calder, who spells out the economic damage threatened by cyber attacks in the UK, pointing to maths as the nation's best line of defence. As she writes, mathematicians at Bletchley Park during the war were instrumental to the Allied victory, with their ideas going on to form the basis for the computing revolution. Professor Calder points out that the same could be achieved with joined-up thinking across...