🎓 Calling UK University Maths Departments - Registration now open for PhD Your Way 2025!

22 Oct 2025 | 🕑 14:00–16:30 BST | Online
Talks, Live Q&A, virtual uni fair. Breaking down the knowledge barrier to entry for UK maths PhDs.

Register your institution by 30 Sept 👉 forms.gle/F47w6EVNmFKt...

You can find our paper (open access) at the link below, and all code is open-source across all methodologies are linked within! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 4/4

Furthermore, the speed of this new model permitted exploration into repeated bounces wihtout further loss of resolution - supporting long scale investigation into Faraday pilot wave dynamics, coming full circle from my initial thesis formulation report 5 years ago! 3/4

We introduce new analytical and computational modelling approaches for capturing the dynamics of a liquid drop and pool impact which include a fully coupled reduced dynamic model for the entraped gas region between droplet and bath, and compare to dedicated direct numerical simulation. 2/4

✨💧 New Publication Alert 💧✨
My paper alongside Radu Cimpeanu and Paul Milewski is finally available on Proceedings of the Royal Society A !!
The paper titled "Modelling two-dimensional droplet rebound off deep fluid baths" captures the dynamics of a droplet rebound on a deep liquid bath🧵1/4

I can't believe it's been 4 years since I started talking maths on twitch. I'm celebrating with possibly the most challenging streeam I've ever designed - a 12 hour maths exam! Join me on the day as I raise money for the british heart foundation!
twitch.tv/katdoesmaths

Oh yeah, photo context - the team at the stadium let me keep one of the rebranding panels, and it’s still up at Mams house! (I never got a programme from matchday though, so if anyone has one knocking about I would be forever grateful!) However if you want to see a vintage version from 2015... 🧵5/5

Ten years ago I was a confused kid in the middle of her A levels who’d just lost her father to cancer, and didn’t know what she was going to do with her life. Now I couldn’t be more proud of who I’ve become. I’m a mathematician, science communicator, and still an avid rugby fan.

It was pure chance - they randomly chose one fan who’d been supporting since the beginning to win the honour, so my name went everywhere (including the wiki page, much to someone's attempt to keep kicking me off there!!)

Ten years ago today, the ospreys celebrated their ten year anniversary by renaming the then liberty stadium the “Katie Phillips Stadium”. I still find it completely surreal that for a single match all the commentators were saying MY name, and all the branding everywhere in the stadium got replaced.

A large part ofmy love of rugby is due to the weekly rhythm in our house. Saturdays meant doing the weekly shop, wolfing down a swansea pie, and then heading off to sit in the cold for two hours beside my Mam and Dad, and later Mam and Bampi, as we cheered on @ospreysofficial.bsky.social. 🧵1/5

Hallo! I'm not very good at using this platform, but I am quite good at sometimes remembering to tell people where they can find me. I'll be live over on twitch doing some co-working study streams this week, and I'll be doing some maths and fundraising May 21st (more to follow). Come say hi!

Last time I played a game with Sam I helped try to unionise a bunch of bakery goblins. He is a fantastic GM and I can't recommend this highly enough!!

I am so excited for this evening! Come along and share the joy 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Very excited to share these new pins! I couldn't find my favourite version of the transbian flag as a pin already, so I decided to make them myself. Please share these around so that other people can find and enjoy them too! canopyrobin.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

Do grey squirrels have red faces/backs for the same reason that some non-ginger people get ginger beards?

Do they release a cut of The Traitors where they don't include the confessionals, so you can play along? Because that would be so much fun

I've had a very good day. I hope y'all have also had a good day, and if you haven't, I hope tomorrow is better 💜

This year for JingleJam the sci com collective are getting together to provide two weeks of chaotic streams, including a 12 hour Xmas Spectacular where it'll be me, some maths, and a few friends to keep me sane! This is all in the name of charity and you can donate here: tiltify.com/+the-sci-com...

Forget Christmas, the best part of December is watching two grown men lose their minds watching silly cat videos for charity. #jinglejam

The book I'm reading got to a sad moment, so I decided to catch up on my Buffy rewatch. Only I forgot that my next episode is The Body... Looks like we're having a crying night no matter what

28. The PhD gave me a load of opportunities to travel, my favourite of which was getting to attend ICIAM in Tokyo 2023. It was a massive (thousands of people) conference from all over the world getting excited about maths. And I got to present my poster via robot! (Plus Japan was a dream location!)

27. Im really not a morning person, I think if life didn't work around a 9-5 assumption, my productive hours seem to be late evenings-early hours of the morning thesis write-up was a strange time)

I've had an amazingly full circle moment today where I was invited to speak at the applied mathematics seminar in Cardiff University. I completed my undergraduate in Cardiff in 2019, so to go back just after completing my PhD and share my success with the people who inspired me was a lovely feeling.