Projects Showcase

The largest component of the assessment of this module is the project. There are approximately eight different project options to choose from across different areas of mathematics (e.g., pure, applied, probability, mathematical physics, etc.); each project has a distinct member of the Maths Department as supervisor. Each project consists of two parts: a guided component that is completed as part of a small group and an extension component that is open-ended and completed as an individual.

This page showcases some of the outstanding student projects (individual extension component) that were awarded prizes for their excellence. All prize-winning project videos are available on the course YouTube channel.

We are very grateful to MathWorks for generously providing the prizes!

Some of our prize-winning students with their MathWorks prizes.

Outstanding Projects 2025/2026 (selection)

Jack Guilfoyle: “Dependence of Initial Speed on Kink-Antikink Collisions”

Talia Tobias: “Paper Aeroplanes and Dynamical Systems”

Abigail Weersing: “Power Output of a Wind Farm”

Thomas Newbury: “Finite Size Scaling in the 2D Ising Model”

Sam Todd: “Gradient and Invasion Percolation”

Ashwin Iyer: “The Foucault Pendulum”

Joshua Thompson: “Random Braid Words and Link Properties”

Cameron Connor: “Structural Credit Risk Models”