Category: Termcard

Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. E.L. Oritz (Imperial College, London) “Best Approximation and Numerical Approximation” Also in 2nd Week: Christmas Party (postponed from last term) 4th Week: Trip to Cambridge Tuesday 5th Week: Dr. G.L. Luke (St. Hugh’s) “Complexifying Complex Numbers” Tuesday 6th Week: Annual Dinner Tuesday 7th Week: Dr. W.A. Sutherland (New College) “Florence Nightingale’s…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. A. Gardiner (Birmingham University) “Binomial Coefficients and Fermat’s Last Theorem” Tuesday 2nd Week: Professor W. Ledermann (Sussex University) “The Rise and Fall of Matrix Algebra” Tuesday 3rd Week: Professor M.B. Green (Queen Mary College, London) “The Unity of the Physical Forces” Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. D.J.A. Welsh (Merton College) Tuesday 5th…

Tuesday 2nd Week: Dr. H. Ockendon (Somerville) “Damming and Blasting” Tuesday 3rd Week: Professor M.V. Berry (Bristol University) “Renormalization of Curlicues” Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. L.J. Norbury (Lincoln) Tuesday 5th Week: Punt Party Sunday 7th Week: Croquet match against the faculty

Tuesday 3rd Week: Dr. D.T. Whiteside (Cambridge University) Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. A. Gardiner (Birmingham university) “Where does Mathematics Come From?” Tuesday 5th Week: Dr. J.F. Bowers (Leeds University) “The Transcendence of the Elephant in Mathematical Philosophy” Tuesday 6th Week: Annual Dinner Tuesday 7th Week: Dr. N.M.J. Woodhouse (Wadham College) Tuesday 8th Week: Dr. D.…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr T.J. Kent (Leed University) “Why the Musical Scale has 13 Notes” Tuesday 2nd Week: I. Parker Esq (ICI New Science Group) Tuesday 3rd Week: Professor T.J. Wilmore (Durham University) “Figures with Nice Shapes” Tuesday 4th Week: Professor P. Vamos (Exeter University) “What does an Algebraist Do?” Tuesday 5th Week: Dr. D.J.…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. P.M. Neumann (Queen’s) “The Paris grand Prix of 1860” Friday 1st Week: Drinks Party – Wadham Tuesday 2nd Week: Annual Dinner – Wadham Tuesday 3rd Week: Professor D.N. Burghes (Exeter University) “Desert Island Mathematics” Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. P.J. Cameron (Merton) “Random Sum-Free Sets” Tuesday 5th Week: Punt Party Sunday 7th…

Tuesday 1st Week: Dr. K.C. Hannabuss (Balliol College) “Brownian Motion and Schrodinger’s Cat” Tuesday 2nd Week: Professor J.H. Conway, FRS (Cambridge University) “1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, … Guess the Next Term” Tuesday 3rd Week: Annual Dinner Tuesday 4th Week: D.A. Quadling (Cambridge Institute of Education) “Organised Games” Tuesday 5th Week: Dr. C.M. Series…

Tuesday 1st Week: Professor E.G. Zeeman, FRS (Warwick University) “mathematical models of th Psychology of the Hijacker” Tuesday 2nd Week: Professor R. Penrose, FRS, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University “Quasi Crystals” Tuesday 3rd Week: Professor R.F. Churchhouse, CBE (University College, Cardiff) “Discovering Mathematics by Computer” Tuesday 4th Week: Professor B.J. Hoskins, Professor of…

Friday 1st Week: Drinks Party – Exeter Tuesday 2nd Week: Professor T. Fogwell (Harwell) “Predicting the Future in the State of Texas” Tuesday 4th Week: Dr. W.A. Sutherland (New) “On the Level – Some Relations between Algebra and Topology” Tuesday 5th Week: Punt Party Sunday 7th Week: Croquet match against the faculty

Tuesday 2nd Week: Professor K. Morton (Oxford University) “On the Many Ways of Solving Ax=b” Tuesday 3rd Week: K. Regan (Oxford University) “Enigma Variations: Trapdoors and Knapsacks” Tuesday 4th Week: Professor D.N. Burghes (Exeter University) Thursday 5th Week: Annual Dinner Tuesday 6th Week: Dr. P.M. Neumann (Queen’s College) “The Real World and the Rational World”…