Category: Termcard

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…

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.…

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…

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

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.…

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

Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. D. Stirzaker (St. John’s) “A Random History of Probability” Tuesday 3rd Week: Dr. S. Howison (Wadham) “All the colours of the rainbow: Mathematics of colour vision” Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. F. Daly (Open University) “Birth and Death and the Element of Chance” 5th Week: Punt Party Sunday 7th Week: Croquet match…

Tuesday 1st Week: Neil Edwards (CEGB) “Power Station Impact on the Marine Environment” Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. J. Roe (Jesus College) Tuesday 3rd Week: Dr. R.H. Tew (St. Cross College) “Sound Evaluation of Unsound Structures” Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. J.D. Lunn (Worcester College) Tuesday 5th Week: Dr. R.J. Wilson (Open University) “Mazes, Maps and Molecules”…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. D. Acheson (Jesus College) “On Being as Small as Possible” Thursday 1st Week: Professor E.C. Zeeman, FRS (Hertford College) “Gyroscopes and Boomerangs” Tuesday 2nd Week: Chris Maslanka Tuesday 3rd Week: Professor W.N. Everitt (Birmingham University) “Tell us a Theorem” Tuesday 4th Week: Professor G. Higman (Oxford University) “Drawing Pictures of Groups”…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. R. Webster (Sheffield University) “The Tail of pi or Squaring the Circle” Tuesday 2nd Week: Professor M. Mangel (Oxford University) “Mathematics and Biology” Tuesday 3rd Week: Professor S.A. Robertson (Southampton University) “The Ten Perfect Solids” Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. D. Benson (Wolfson) Tuesday 5th Week: Punt Party Sunday 7th Week: Croquet…