On Saturday the 16th of February 2019, a small group of staff and students of the School of Maths and Physics went for an easy hike through southern central Lincoln. From the university, we walked south till Morrisons, before leaving the road for the fields and farmland.

After reaching the woods, we followed the path leading to Hartsholme Country Park, famous for its lakes and the White Bridge.

Upon leaving the park, we headed back to the city via the scenic route along the Catchwater dyke (here one has great views of the cathedral), before joining River Witham and following the river back to the university.

Congratulations to the winners of the Lincoln Mathematics Challenge 2018-19 and a big thank you to all participants! The Awards Ceremony has taken place on 6 February 2019 in Isaac Newton Building of the University of Lincoln, at the beginning of the annual Charlotte Scott public lecture in mathematics by Prof. Ineke De Moortel FRSE, President of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. The audience gave big rounds of applause to the winners, who received their trophies from Prof. Ineke De Moortel and the Chair of Competition Committee Prof. Evgeny Khukhro, and were also congratulated by Head of School of Mathematics and Physics Prof. Andrei Zvelindovsky. Solutions of the problems can be found here. The results are:

Joint 1st prize winners:

Daniel Claydon, Havant and Southdowns College, Havant, Hampshire;

Hugo Fry, Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Alford, Lincolnshire.

2nd prize winner:

Jennifer Hu, Loughborough College, Loughborough.

Joint 3rd place winners:

Adrian Dimitrov