Category: Archive
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Termcard for Hilary Term 1992
Tuesday 1st Week (15th January): Paul Daniels (BBC TV) “Mathematics and Magic” Admission by ticket only Tickets (free to members on production of a valid membership card) may be collected from the Maths Institute on Monday and Tuesday of 1st week from 10.45am-11.15am, 11.45am-12.15pm, and 12.45pm-1.15pm. On the Monday, tickets will only be issued to…
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Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1991
Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. R.J. Wilson (Open University) “Let Newton be!” Friday 1st Week: Puzzles and Games evening Tuesday 2nd Week: Professor R. Penrose (Oxford University) “Twistors” Wednesday 2nd Week: Professor Sir H. Bondi (Cambridge University) “Special Relativity” Tuesday 3rd Week: Professor E.C. Zeeman (Oxford University) “Plimpton 322” Tuesday 4th Week: Professor N. Biggs (London…
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Termcard for Trinity Term 1991
Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. H. Priestley (St. Hughs College) “Backtracking, or attempting to get out of a maze before starving” Saturday 1st Week: Croquet Match against the Archimedeans of Cambridge University. This will be held at Trinity College, Cambridge. Tuesday 2nd Week: Professor Birch (Oxford University)“Fermat and all that” Tuesday 3rd Week: Video evening. Tuesday…
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Committee for Hilary Term 1991 to Hilary Term 1992
Senior Member:Dr. R.J. Wilson (Open University & Keble) President:Alasdair Kergon (Exeter) Secretary:Tony Moore (Lady Margaret Hall) Treasurer:Mark Harrison (Balliol) Publicity Secretary:Andrew Byford (Lady Margaret Hall) Social Secretary:Gerard MacKay (Hertford) Magazine Editor:Joanne Dicker (Balliol)
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Termcard for Hilary Term 1991
Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. Raymond Flood (Department for External Studies) “Waiting Times: Some Surprising Results” Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. D. Roaf (Exeter College) “Bells and Bell Ringing” Tuesday 3rd Week: Dr. M.E. Rayner “Mathematics and Mathematicians in Oxford in the last sixty years” Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. Tony Gardiner (Birmingham University) Tuesday 5th Week: Dr.…
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Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1990
Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. Acheson (Jesus) “A Shocking Lecture on Waves” Friday 1st Week: Cubemania! Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. Ian Stewart (Warwick) “Chaos” Tuesday 3rd Week: Dr. Robin Wilson (Open University) “The Four Colour Theorem” Tuesday 4th Week: Puzzles evening Tuesday 5th Week: John Jaworski (Director of Mathematics Broadcasting, Open University) “Merry Christmas VT!” Tuesday…
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Termcard for Trinity Term 1990
Tuesday 1st Week: Video: “Ramanujan and pi” Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. T. Mullin (Clarendon Laboratory) “Chaos” Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. P. Neumann (Queen’s College) “Computers in Group Theory” Saturday 6th Week: Punt Party Saturday 7th Week: Croquet Match versus Cambridge
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Termcard for Hilary Term 1990
Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. K. P. Tod (St. John’s College) “Geometry and Complex Numbers” Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. Carroll Morgan (Programming Research Group) “Computer Viruses” Tuesday 3rd Week: Treasure Hunt – with prizes Tuesday 5th Week: Dr. J. Fauvel (Open University) “Women in 19th Century Mathematics” Tuesday 6th Week: Annual Dinner Tuesday 7th Week: Dr.…
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Committee for Hilary Term 1990 to Hilary Term 1991
President:Dr. R.J. Wilson (Open University & Keble) Chairman:Michael Richards (Lady Margaret Hall) Secretary:Pete Bevin (Pembroke) Treasurer:Robert Turner (Lady Margaret Hall) Publicity Secretary:Alasdair Kergon (Exeter) Social Secretary:Tony Moore (Lady Margaret Hall)
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Termcard for Michaelmas Term 1989
Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. R.J. Wilson (Open University) “800 Years of Oxford Mathematics” Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. M.L. Powell (St. Peter’s) “Points of View” Tuesday 4th Week: Puzzles and Games -with prizes Tuesday 6th Week: Dr. M.E. Rayner (St. Hilda’s) “The Number pi” Tuesday 8th Week: Christmas Party