Termcard for Hilary 2018

Social event

Week 1, Tuesday 16 January HT 2018
7:30pm
Common Room, Mathematical Institute

Enjoy our finest selection of snacks, board games, non-alcoholic and non-non-alcoholic drinks. P(Pizza)>0.

TPP Event

Week 2, Tuesday 23 January HT 2018
6:00pm
Common Room, Mathematical Institute

Healthcare software firm TPP are returning to host the next edition of their Maths Pub Quiz. Get together in small teams of 6 people for the chance to win some great PRIZES. Free drinks and PIZZA will be provided all night.

String Theory, Fundamental Physics and Geometry: Andre Lukas

Week 3, Tuesday 30 January HT 2018
8:00pm
L2, Mathematical Institute

String Theory is a framework of astonishing complexity. It relates to many aspects of Physics and Mathematics and has triggered close interactions between the two subjects. In this talk I would like to discuss one aspect of this interaction:

”Four colours suffice”: Robin J Wilson

Week 4, Tuesday 6 February HT 2018
8:00pm
L2, Mathematical Institute

Robin Wilson, one of the Invariants’ best friends will give a lecture on the proof and development of the famous four colour theorem.

Chalkdust Pub Quiz

Week 5, Tuesday 13 February HT 2018
7:30pm
Common room, Mathematical Institute

Chalkdust is a Maths magazine run by a handful of ambitious students at UCL. Their team will come and have a pub quiz with us – we hope to see many of you there so

Puzzle competition-Valentine’s Day Special

Week 5, Wednesday 14 February HT 2018
7:30pm
Cafe Pi, Mathematical Institute

Gather together for the last but most important puzzle competition of this term. Show the world how much you love Maths,

How long is a third of a piece of string?: David Seifert, St John’s College

Week 6, Tuesday 20 February HT 2018
8:00pm
L2, Mathematical Institute

Sometimes a problem is too complicated to be solved directly but can be broken down into simpler subproblems. One can hope that by solving these subproblems, perhaps repeatedly, one approaches a solution of the original problem. The “method of alternating projections” allows us to

Tom Crawford aka ’The naked Mathematician’: Tom Crawford

Week 7, Tuesday 27 February HT 2018
8:00pm
L2, Mathematical Institute

Disclaimer: Tom might be half-naked during the talk. Hence you should either really come, or really not come to the talk – depending on your personal preferences. More details about the talk will come. Drinks and snacks provided as usual.

”Prediction”: Doyne Farmer

Week 8, Tuesday 6 March HT 2018
8:00pm
L2, Mathematical Institute

Event was cancelled (again)

Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Week 8, Wednesday 7 March HT 2018
7:30pm
Common room, Mathematical Institute

For members only. Membership cannot be bought at this event. L. Frank Baum said, ”Everything has to come to an end, sometime”. Now I didn’t know who he was before I googled his name, but I couldn’t agree more (he is the author of