New Cambridge-developed resources help students learn how maths can help tackle infectious diseases

Cambridge mathematicians have developed a set of resources for students and teachers that will help them understand how maths can help tackle infectious

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 19, 2024 ~5 min

New Cambridge-developed resources bring infectious diseases into the maths classroom

Cambridge mathematicians have developed a set of resources for students and teachers that will help them understand how maths can help tackle infectious

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 19, 2024 ~5 min


Swarming cicadas, stock traders, and the wisdom of the crowd

The springtime emergence of vast swarms of cicadas can be explained by a mathematical model of collective decision-making with similarities to models

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 1, 2024 ~5 min

Mathematical paradox demonstrates the limits of AI

Humans are usually pretty good at recognising when they get things wrong, but artificial intelligence systems are not. According to a new study, AI generally

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March 17, 2022 ~7 min

Four Cambridge researchers recognised in the 2022 Breakthrough Prizes

Four University of Cambridge researchers – Professors Shankar Balasubramanian, David Klenerman, Suchitra Sebastian and Jack Thorne – have been recognised by

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 9, 2021 ~8 min

How accurate were early expert predictions on COVID-19, and how did they compare to the public?

Who made more accurate predictions about the course of the COVID-19 pandemic – experts or the public? A study from the University of Cambridge has found that

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May 5, 2021 ~6 min

Through the looking glass: artificial ‘molecules’ open door to ultrafast devices

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Skoltech in Russia have shown that polaritons, the quirky particles that may end up running the quantum

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March 3, 2021 ~4 min

Mathematics explains how giant ‘whirlpools’ form in developing egg cells

The swirling currents occur when the rodlike structures that extend inward from the cells’ membranes bend in tandem, like stalks of wheat caught in a strong

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Jan. 13, 2021 ~5 min


UK modelling study finds case isolation and contact tracing vital to COVID-19 epidemic control

In the absence of a vaccine or highly effective treatments for COVID-19, combining isolation and intensive contact tracing with physical distancing

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 16, 2020 ~9 min

Researcher profile: Professor Julia Gog

Professor Julia Gog is a mathematician who specialises in modelling the spread of infectious diseases, particularly pandemic influenza. For months, she and the other members of her research group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics have been modelling and mapping the spread of coronavirus and COVID-19.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 8, 2020 ~6 min

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