National Best Maths Project Competition
This prestigious national celebration recognises the most outstanding undergraduate project work in Mathematics, Statistics, and Operational Research from across UK universities.
Winners of the 2026 Competition
1st Place:
Ben le Jeune (Imperial College London) – Stochastic Resetting for General Inter-Particle Structures
2nd Place:
Alice Henman (Durham University) – Life and Death in Evolution: Topics in Adaptive Dynamics
3rd Place (jointly awarded):
Owen Walters (University of Sheffield) – Uniform Rationality of Surfaces in Algebraic Geometry
Sophie Hegerty (University of the West of England) – Lagrangian Analysis of Four-Bar Cruciate Ligament Model