Young people are at the centre of a major national conference bringing some of the world's finest scientists to the region.

We’re celebrating our role as hosts of the UK’s leading astronomy conference next week (7-11 July) with a series of free events for the public to enjoy.

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025.

From 7–9 April 2025, Durham University’s Department of Mathematical Sciences welcomed about 100 educators, researchers, and technologists from around the world for the International Meeting of the STACK Community 2025.

Durham University recently hosted the Durham Symposium on Mean Field Games, a major international event that brought together about 55 leading researchers and rising scholars to explore the latest advances in the theory and applications of Mean Field Games (MFGs). The symposium took place from 25 March to 28 March 2025 and was supported by The Royal Society.

The prestigious grant will support a cutting-edge research project exploring the mathematical structures underpinning quantum symmetries.

We have been ranked third in the UK for interdisciplinary science research.

Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Fellow Robie Hennigar and his research partners outline their latest work on black holes.

We were pleased to welcome Dr. Nazar Miheisi from King's College London for our 2024 Black History Month Lecture.

Our mathematicians have helped harness the power of AI (artificial intelligence) to upgrade a tool that forecasts emergency hospital admissions across Scotland.

Our recent Willmore Pure Postgraduate Day celebrated the exciting research in pure mathematics carried out by junior researchers in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

In a new development for our highly rated Mathematical Sciences department, Dr Yohance Osborne is set to join us as one of the first recipients of the prestigious Royal Society Career Development Fellowship.