Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the IMA in 2024, the IMA ran a national competition where universities across the country were given the opportunity to put forward their top BSc student. The top scoring student from each university was invited to take part in the competition, sharing a topic from Maths/Stats or OR. Will Barnfield and Maria Esteban Casadevall were awarded first and second place respectively:
Vibrations of an N-gon mass-spring system and further geometry
Will Barnfield (University of Liverpool)
Ollivier Ricci curvature and (non-)convergence of the Ollivier Ricci flow - Maria Esteban Casadevall (Heriot-Watt University)
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the IMA in 2024, the IMA ran a national competition where universities across the country were given the opportunity to put forward their top BSc student. The top scoring student from each university was invited to take part in the competition, sharing a topic from Maths/Stats or OR. Will Barnfield and Maria Esteban Casadevall were awarded first and second place respectively:
Vibrations of an N-gon mass-spring system and further geometry
Will Barnfield (University of Liverpool)
Ollivier Ricci curvature and (non-)convergence of the Ollivier Ricci flow - Maria Esteban Casadevall (Heriot-Watt University)










