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Committee for Hilary Term 2002 to Hilary Term 2003
Senior Member: Dr. Lackenby (St. Catherine’s) President: Waldemar Schlackow (Pembroke) Secretary: Ruth Ward (St Hilda’s) Treasurer: Benjamin Craig (St Anne’s) Social Secretary: Kelly Morley (St Hilda’s) Publicity Secretary: Alexander Frolkin (Merton) Magazine Editor: Ian Collier (OUCL) Computer Officer: Jonathan Cooper (St John’s)
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Termcard for Hilary Term 2002
Tuesday 1st Week Dr. Richard Steinberg (Cambridge) “Combinatorial Auctions” In a combinatorial auction, bids are permitted not only on individual items, but on groups of items as well. Recently, the American government attempted to design a combinatorial auction. Why they should want to do this, and what actually happened, is the subject of this talk.…
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Termcard for Michaelmas Term 2001
Tuesday 1st Week Dr. Robin Wilson (Open University & Keble) “Alice in Numberland” Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) was a maths don at Christ Church. This illustrated talk looks at his mathematics, both serious and recreational. Tuesday 2nd Week Dr. David Acheson (Jesus) “Great Mathematical Mistakes” Mathematics is sometimes presented as if it is, from the…
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Termcard for Trinity Term 2001
Tuesday 3rd week – 8th May at 10am at the Mathematical Institute – Higham Room : What is the Future of Invariants ? Please attend in numbers, and bring along friends, who have a critical view of Invariants. Some things have gone wrong in the past few years, and we would like to find out…
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Committee for Hilary Term 2001 to Hilary Term 2002
Senior Member: Prof. P Candelas (Wadham) President: Wai Yi Feng (St. Hilda’s) Secretaries: Hilary 2001 – Michaelmas 2001 Christian Langkamp (Lincoln) Michaelmas 2001 – Hilary 2002 Ruth Ward (St Hilda’s) Treasurer: James Turner (BNC) Social Secretary: Rebecca Lodwick (Mansfield) Magazine Editor: Ian Collier (OUCL) Computer Officer: Mark Rigby-Jones (ex-Keble)
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Termcard for Hilary Term 2001
Tuesday 1st Week Prof. G. R. Grimmett (Cambridge) “Stochastic Pinball” The most fundamental stochastic process is termed `random walk’, and it models the movement of a particle about a space. There is a neat interplay between random walks and electrical networks. Tuesday 2nd Week Prof. Sir Christopher Zeeman “Applications of Catastrophe Theory to the Physical,…
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Termcard for Michaelmas Term 2000
Tuesday 1st Week Dr. Robin Wilson (Open University & Keble) “Stamping Through the Millennium” Dr. Wilson will cover the past thousand years of mathematics in one hour, illustrating the mathematics an mathematicians in a rather unusual way. Tuesday 2nd Week Dr. Peter Neumann (The Queen’s College) “What is the next number?” We’ll start from the…
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Termcard for Trinity Term 2000
Tuesday 1st Week Dr. Bruce Henning (St. Catherine’s) “Variations on a Theme of Mach” Mach bands are regions of lightness and darkness, not present in the stimulus, but arising from the visual system’s response to certain spatial distributions of luminance. Mach showed that these bands are not part of the objective luminance distribution, but brightness…
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Committee for Hilary Term 2000 to Hilary Term 2001
Senior Member: Prof. P Candelas (Wadham) President: Rebecca Lodwick (Mansfield) Secretary: Jason Lotay (SEH) Treasurers: Hilary 2000 – Trinity 2000 Richard Mark (University) Michaelmas 2000 – Hilary 2001 Miles Blackford (Keble) Social Secretary: Tim Bagot (Keble) Magazine Editor: Ian Collier (OUCL) Computer Officer: Mark Rigby-Jones (ex-Keble)
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Termcard for Hilary Term 2000
Tuesday 1st Week Mike Richards (GCHQ) “History of Number Theory: 4000 years in 4000 seconds” Tuesday 2nd Week Ian Sobey (Comlab) “Unsteady vortices and mixing in blood devices” Tuesday 3rd Week Ice Skating Meet outside the Maths Institute at 8:15pm, or at Carfax at around 8:30. Tuesday 5th Week Members’ Papers Rebecca Lodwick “Mary Fairfax…