Ruth has just been awarded £199211 by EPSRC for a grant called “Enhancing Group Search with Graph Techniques”. The grant will run from now until July 2025. Congratulations Ruth!

Congratulations to Peter Cameron on being awarded the 2017 Senior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society! The prize is awarded for ‘exceptional research contributions across combinatorics and group theory, his fertile imagination and encouragement of others having sparked activity in many fields’. He became the third person to win both a Junior and Senior Whitehead Prize. Please read further details in the LMS announcement and in this post in Peter Cameron’s blog.

Sophie Huczynska has been awarded a Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant on the topic of ‘Difference Families in Coding and Cryptography’. This will support a collaboration with Maura Paterson at Birkbeck, University of London, and Siaw-Lynn Ng at Royal Holloway, University of London.