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Welcome to the official page of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Malta.

22/10/2026

For more information, please contact Irene Sciriha or John Baptist Gauci.

21/10/2026

Dayle Scicluna successfully defended his M.Phil. thesis with the title "Isolation of Squares and Longer Cycles in Graphs".

Mr Scicluna's thesis adviser was Peter Borg, and the external examiner was Csilla Bujtás (University of Ljubljana). The examining board also included David Buhagiar (Chair), Josef Lauri, and John Baptist Gauci.

Congratulations, Dayle!

Photo: JB Gauci, J Lauri, D Scicluna, D Buhagiar, C Bujtás.

22/09/2026

Come visit us at Science in the City!

The Mathematics Department, in collaboration with the Malta Mathematical Society, will have a stand by the Tritons’ Fountain in Valletta on the 25th and 26th of September from 18:00 to 23:00 hrs.

08/07/2026

https://www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/academia/2026/amathematicsprojectofprofpeterborgfundedbysea-eugrant2025.html

Peter Borg

Funding of a Mathematics Project by Prof. Peter Borg

29/05/2026

Kevin Abela has been awarded the University of Malta's Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award for 2026 for his PhD thesis in Mathematics. He was presented with the award by the Rector, Professor Alfred Vella, at the UM Research Expo 2026. Dr Abela's thesis, entitled "Intrinsic Topologies on Ordered Structures-Applications", was supervised by Emanuel Chetcuti. Well done!

11/03/2026

Graduation day for Mathematics post-graduates! Kevin Abela was conferred with a PhD, while Maria Aquilina and David Dimech celebrated their MSc graduation. Congratulations!

L to R: Emanuel Chetcuti (thesis supervisor of Dr Abela and Mr Dimech), David P Dimech, Maria Aquilina, Kevin Abela, John Baptist Gauci (Head of Department)

14/02/2026

Josef Lauri, Onur Baysal, Beatriz Zamora, John Baptist Gauci and Karl Bartolo represented the department at KurżitàJiem 2026, held at Esplora Interactive Science Centre.

11/02/2026

Talks on graph theory this week by visiting academics from Gdansk, Poland.

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