Department of Mathematical Sciences

Welcome to the Dept of Mathematical Sciences

Durham is one of the leading Mathematical Sciences departments in the UK. Research within the department is broadly categorised into pure mathematics, theoretical physics, numerical analysis, statistics and probability theory. Each year we admit about 120 students to study for a degree in Mathematics, and we currently have around 50 postgraduate students.

Today's Seminars

Combustion modelling through principal manifolds & End users of energy: data, ethics and engagement - Jochen Einbeck and Gareth Powells

Recent Publications

Dondl, Patrick W. & Scheutzow, Michael 2012. Positive speed of propagation in a semilinear parabolic interface model with unbounded random coefficients. Networks Heterogeneous Media 7(1): 137-150. (View publication online)
Forrester-Jones, R., Carpenter, J. S. W., Coolen-Schrijner, P., Cambridge, P., Tate, A., Hallam, A., Beecham, J., Knapp, M. & Wooff, D. A. 2012. Good friends are hard to find? The social networks of people with mental illness 12 years after deinstitutionalisation. Journal of Mental Health 21(1): 4-14. (View publication online)
Bissell, J.J. 2012. Dimensional analysis and dimensional reasoning. In Ways of thinking, ways of seeing mathematical and other modelling in engineering and technology. Bissell, C.C. & Dillon, C. Berlin: Springer. 29-47. (View publication online)
Abrashkin, Victor & Jenni, Ruth 2012. The field-of-norms functor and the Hilbert symbol for higher local fields. Journal Theorie des Nombres de Bordeaux 24(1): 1-39. (View publication online)
Huntley, Nathan & Troffaes, Matthias C. M. 2012. Normal Form Backward Induction for Decision Trees with Coherent Lower Previsions. Annals of Operations Research 195(1): 111-134. (View publication online)

News & Events

Vacancies for Readers/Lecturers

We currently have two vacancies. Please follow the links below for full details of the positions and how to apply.

Reader/Lecturer in Pure Mathematics

Reader/Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Statistics and Probability

The Maths Faculty

The Maths Faculty provides free, short films of university lecturers speaking on topics directly from the A-level curriculum.

RAE2008 and the Department of Mathematical Sciences

The Department of Mathematical Sciences participated in RAE2008 and received detailed feedback in January 2009.

90% of all of the research submitted by staff across Durham University was assessed as being at least of International Quality (2* and above) in terms of originality, significance and rigour. In the Department of Mathematical Sciences, 95% of our research was assessed as being at least of International Quality.

Of the research assessed from Applied Mathematics, 75% was rated as Internationally Excellent or World Leading (3* and 4*). This placed us equal 1^st in a ranking of UK institutions based on the same criteria.

See how Durham University’s RAE2008 performance ranked alongside comparator institutions.