Category: Archive
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Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1999
Tuesday 1st Week David Acheson (Jesus) “Desert Island Mathematics” Tuesday 2nd Week Rebecca Gower (DfEE) “How to build with LEGO” Sunday 3rd Week Treasure Hunt Tuesday 3rd Week Prof. John Davenport (Bath) “Public Key Cryptography and recent developments in factoring integers” Tuesday 4th Week Paul Tod (St John’s) “What do mathematicians do?” Tuesday 5th Week…
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Termcard for Trinity Term 1999
Tuesday 1st Week Invariant Puzzles and Games It is once again time to dust off the cornucopia that is the Invariant Society’s box of board games and similar items. We will not be deterred by missing pieces, nor even missing boards. Tuesday 2nd Week Dr Brian Stewart (Exeter) “A Combinatorial Proof of the Pythagoras Theorem”…
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Termcard for Hilary Term 1999
Tuesday 1st Week Dr. Gordon James (ICL) “Games with Permutations” Tuesday 2nd Week Prof James Higginbotham (Somerville) “The Logic of Time and Tense” Tuesday 3rd Week Dr Andrew Fowler (OCIAM) “Mathematics of Fire and Ice” Tuesday 4th Week Prof Peter Maini (Brasenose) “Mathematical Models for Wound Healing” Tuesday 5th Week Members’ Papers Miles Blackford “Fourier”…
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Committee for Hilary Term 1999 to Hilary Term 2000
Senior Member: Dr David J. Acheson (Jesus) President: Jason Lotay (SEH) Secretary: Tim Bagot (Keble) Treasurer: Richard Mark (Univ) Social Secretary: Rebecca Lodwick (Mansfield) Magazine Editor: Ian Collier (OUCL) Computer Officer: Mark Rigby-Jones (ex-Keble)
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Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1998
Tuesday 1st Week Dr. Acheson (Jesus) “Chaos, Catastrophes and the Electric Guitar” Thursday 1st Week Freshers’ Drinks At the Lower Lecture Theatre, Lincoln. Tuesday 2nd Week Prof Alan Camina (UEA) “Are Elections Fair?” Tuesday 3rd Week Dr Robin Wilson (Open University and Keble) “The Mathematics of Lewis Carroll” Tuesday 4th Week Prof Gareth Jones (Southampton)…
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Termcard for Trinity Term 1998
Tuesday 1st Week Puzzles and Games The Invariants have roughly four kilos of puzzles and games, including Campaign, Rat-race, Monopoly, Careers, Law and Order, Speculate, 3D Noughts and Crosses, and Virtual Risk – like Risk, but without the game board. Come along and try your hand at them. Tuesday 2nd Week Dr Frances Kirwan (Balliol)…
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Committee for Hilary Term 1998 to Hilary Term 1999
Senior Member: Dr David J. Acheson (Jesus) President: Helen Broadie (Lincoln) Secretary: Tom Womack (Merton) Treasurer: Tim Ricketts (St Anne’s) Social Secretary: Miles Blackford (Keble) Membership Secretary: Jo Keefe (St. Hugh’s) Publicity Secretary: Tim Bagot (Keble) Magazine Editor: Ian Collier (OUCL) Computer Officer: Mark Rigby-Jones (ex-Keble)
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Termcard for Hilary Term 1998
Tuesday 1st Week Dr Tony Gardiner (Birmingham) “A Theory is born: from equations to group theory” How does a mathematical theory evolve? Are there identifiable “turning points” where a bunch of useful “tricks” is somehow turned into an identifiable “theory”? The talk will look at some of the stepping-stones that led, a century ago, to…
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Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1997
Tuesday 1st Week Dr David Acheson (Jesus) “From Calculus To Chaos” One person’s view of some of the highlights of mathematics. Dr Acheson will describe a few of the most important – and interesting – developments in maths, running up to the exciting recent concept of chaos. Friday 1st Week Freshers’ Drinks Party From 7…
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Termcard for Trinity Term 1997
Tuesday 1st Week Catherine Jackson (Southampton) “Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision – School Mathematics” Catherine Jackson should be known (infamous?) to much of the Society as one of our most social Social Secretaries ever. Now, the promise of Jaffa Cakes has lured her back to Oxford. Saturday 1st week Trip to Warwick This will be…