Category: Termcard

Tuesday 1st week: Dr. Wilson Sutherland (New College) “Seeing is believing?” Sunday 2nd week: Puzzles and games tea party. Meet at Somerville lodge at 2 p.m. Tuesday 2nd week: Professor Celia Hoyles (Institute of Education, London University “Mathematics for all on television” Tuesday 3rd week: Professor John Coates (Cambridge) “Elliptic curves” Sunday 4th week: Puzzles…

Tuesday 1st week: Dr. Robin Wilson (Keble) “Stamping through Mathematics” Sunday 2nd week: Drinks Party from 7.45pm in the Morley-Fletcher Room, Worcester College. Tuesday 2nd week: Professor Fred Piper (RHBNC) “How to keep a secret” Sunday 3rd week: Scavenger Hunt with the Cambridge Archimedeans. Tuesday 3rd week: Dr. Colin Wright (Datawave Technology Ltd.) “Juggling –…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. J.M. Spivey (Oxford Programming Research Group) “Programming with the Algebra of Functions” Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. Mary Lunn (St. Hugh’s) “Mathematics for Random Dot Stereograms” Sunday 3rd Week: Croquet match with the Archimedeans Tuesday 3rd Week: Profesor Benoit Mandlebrot (IBM Watson Labs / Yale University) “Negative Dimension, Lacunarity, and Other New…

Tuesday 1st Week: Professor Dominic Welsh (Merton) “Colouring and its Complexity” Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. T.W. Korner (Cambridge University) “Devil’s Staircases, Ramps and Rollercoasters” Tuesday 3rd Week: Professor G. James (Imperial) “Game, Set and Permutation” Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. D. Singmaster (South Bank) “Combinatorial Search Problems in Recreational Mathematics” Tuesday 5th Week: Dr. Glenys Luke…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. Robin J. Wilson (Open University) “Map Colouring” Thursday 1st Week: Puzzles and Games Wine Party – Somerville Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. David Acheson (Oxford University) “The Not-So-Simple Pendulum” Tuesday 3rd Week: Professor Roger Penrose (Oxford University) “Drawing, Using Complex Numbers” Wednesday 4th Week: Professor Sir Hermann Bondi “Gravitation” Tuesday 5th Week:…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. Chris Maslanka (St. Catherine’s) Saturday 1st Week: Croquet match with the Archimedeans Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. Robin Gandy “Minds and Machines” Tuesday 3rd Week: Members’ Papers Evening – Keble Tuesday 4th Week: Professor Rosemary Bailey (Goldsmiths’ College) “Mathematics in Agricultural Research” Saturday 4th Week: Punt Party Tuesday 5th Week: Informal gathering…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. Robin J. Wilson (Open University) “800 Years of Oxford Mathematics” Friday 1st Week: Puzzles and Games evening – Keble Tuesday 2nd Week: Professor Sir Christopher Zeeman, F.R.S., Master of Hertford “Gyroscopes and Boomerangs” Friday 2nd Week: Video Evening – Keble Tuesday 3rd Week: Dr. Phil Rippon (Open University) “A Mandlebrot Set…

Tuesday 1st Week: Members’ Papers Evening Saturday 1st Week: Croquet match against the Archimedeans Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. John Roe (Jesus) “Infinitely Fuzzy Geometry” Tuesday 3rd Week: Dr. Keith Hannabuss (Balliol) “From Baden Powell to Henry Smith” Tuesday 4th Week: Puzzles and Games ring – Keble Saturday 4th Week: Punt Party Tuesday 5th Week: Puzzles…

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…

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…