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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…

Invariants Social & Magazine Launch Party Week 1, Tuesday 10 October MT 2017 7:30pm Common Room, Mathematical Institute Come and meet other Maths students in the Maths Institute’s amazing common room (the tables are whiteboards!). Finding Earth v2: Steve Roberts, University of Oxford Week 2, Tuesday 17 October MT 2017 8:00pm L2, Mathematical Institute Modelling…

Invariants Social Week 1, Tuesday 25 April TT 2017 8:15pm L2, Mathematical Institute Come and join us for free snacks in the Maths Institute. This is going to be an opportunity for you to talk about the future of the Invariants while enjoying our Social Secretary’s finest choices of food and drink (There are rumours…

Learn to code with Morgan Stanley Week 1, Tuesday 17 January HT 2017 8:15pm Common Room, Mathematical Institute Writing code is very common nowadays, whether it’s a cool new app or some scientific script to automate calculations. Have you ever wanted to learn how to do it, but think it sounds complicated? It doesn’t have…

Caught Between Dimensions Richard Earl, University of Oxford Week 1, Tuesday 11 October MT 2016 8:15pm L2, Mathematical Institute Examples of fractals like the Mandelbrot set and Julia sets are easy to define in terms of sequences of complex numbers. No doubt you will have seen many weird and wonderful images of these fractals –…

Brainlabs: Pizza and Coding Week 1, Tuesday 26 April TT 2016 8:15pm L2, Mathematical Institute Join Brainlabs for a night of coding at the Mathematical Institute. Whether you’re an experienced coder, just starting out, or anywhere in between, we’ll provide problems, puzzles and pizza for you to get your teeth stuck into. So bring your…

Combinatorics and the Fourier Transform Week 1, Tuesday 19 January HT 20168:15pmL2, Mathematical Institute Hilary Term 2016 Social Week 2, Tuesday 26 January HT 20168:15pmCommon Room, Mathematical Institute Join in us in the common room at the Mathematical Institute for free pizza, snacks and drinks. This event is open to members only (and lifetime membership…

Rational Points on Curves Week 1, Tuesday 13 October MT 20158:15pmL2, Mathematical Institute I shall consider the problem, given a curve with rational coefficients, of how one tries to find all of its rational points. Challenging Mathematics: The UK Mathematics Trust and its work Week 2, Tuesday 20 October MT 20158:15pmLR23, Balliol College Planning for…

Maths, Music, AND Maiolica: Alfred Pringsheim (1850-1941) Week 1, Tuesday 28 April TT 20158:15pmL2, Mathematical Institute Every mathematics student is likely to encounter some of Pringsheim’s ideas, even if they do not recognise his name. This is the story of the mathematician who took part in a duel – and survived; who inherited a large…

Random Trees Week 1, Tuesday 20 January HT 20158:15pmL3, Mathematical Institute Tree structures are ubiquitous in nature, and it is natural to want to model trees which are somehow randomly generated. In mathematics, we think of trees as connected graphs (or networks) with no cycles; these are a fundamental object of study in combinatorics. Mathematics…