The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has allocated almost £25.5 million of funding to 126 adventurous projects in the mathematical and physical sciences through this pilot programme. New Horizons forms part of UKRI’s wider Reforming our Business agenda to simplify and streamline processes and practice across the organisation. Applications were invited up to a value of £200,000, for a duration of two years, without costing required in the application. More information on New Horizons can be found here.

Projects in the Department of Mathematical Sciences funded through New Horizons are:

• Dr Matthew Nunes - A Unified Framework for Multiscale Machine Learning at the Edge

• Dr Sergey Dolgov - Overcoming the curse of dimensionality in dynamic programming by tensor decompositions

• Professor Tim Rogers - Discrete noise in stochastic active flows

• Professor Jonathan Dawes - Understanding Neural Networks through Dynamics