Katharine Beaugié - Light Sculpture
Medea Bindewald - Harpsichord
Curated by Balázs Szendrői
Concert: 18 November, 6.45pm followed by a reception
Exhibition: 18th November – 6th December 2019, Mon-Fri, 8am-6pm
Applied Pure is a unique collaboration between light sculptor Katharine Beaugié and international concert harpsichordist Medea Bindewald, combining the patterns made by water and light with the sound of harpsichord music in a mathematical environment.
Katharine Beaugié will also be exhibiting a new series of large-scale photograms (photographic shadows), displaying the patterns of the natural phenomena of human relationship with water and light.
The Programme of music for harpsichord and water includes the composers: Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667), Enno Kastens (b 1967) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
For more information about the concert and exhibition which is FREE please click this link
Oxford Mathematician Martin Bridson together with co-author André Haefliger has won the 2020 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition awarded by the American Mathematical Society for the book 'Metric Spaces of Non-positive Curvature', published by Springer-Verlag in 1999.
In the words of the citation "Metric Spaces of Non-positive Curvature is the authoritative reference for a huge swath of modern geometric group theory. It realizes Mikhail Gromov's vision of group theory studied via geometry, has been the fundamental textbook for many graduate students learning the subject, and has paved the way for the developments of the subsequent decades."
Professor Martin Bridson is Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics in Oxford, A Fellow of Magdalen College and President of the Clay Mathematics Institute. His research interests lie in geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology, and spaces of non-positive curvature. Born on the Isle of Man, In 2016 Martin became only the second Manxman to ever be elected to the Royal Society, after Edward Forbes.
As part of our 'going behind the scenes' at Oxford Mathematics, we offer the fourth in our series of real student lectures. In our latest lecture we give you a taste of the Oxford Mathematics Student experience as it begins in its very first week.
This is the first lecture in the Introductory Calculus course. Dan Ciubotaru summarises how the course works and what we expect the new students to already know in order to ensure all of them are prepared for the more complex work ahead. We will be filming two more lectures for second year students very shortly.
This autumn we welcomed the first students on the EPSRC CDT in Mathematics of Random Systems: Analysis, Modelling and Algorithms. The CDT (Centre for Doctoral Training) is a partnership between the Mathematical Institute and the Department of Statistics here in Oxford, and the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London. Its ambition is to train the next generation of academic and industry experts in stochastic modelling, advanced computational methods and Data Science.
In the first year, students follow four core courses on Foundation areas as well as three elective courses, and undertake a supervised research project, which then evolves into a PhD thesis. Our first cohort of 16 students joined in September for an introductory week of intensive courses in Oxford on stochastic analysis, data science, function spaces and programming. Course director Rama Cont (Oxford), and co-directors Thomas Cass (Imperial) and Ben Hambly (Oxford) put the students through their paces with the first week ending with a round of junk yard golf - a perfect tool for applying mathematics skills to the world around us.
Over the year the students will spend some of their days on courses at Oxford and some at Imperial, take part in residential courses in the UK and overseas while all the time firming up their research plans with supervisors at their home department.
In addition to our main funding from EPSRC, we have received support from our industrial partners including Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and InstaDeep. We are excited to see our first cohort of students start their 4 year journeys. Applications are now open for fully funded studentships to start in Autumn 2020. Find out more.
Productive generalization: one reason we will never run out of interesting mathematical questions.
We are delighted that Tim Gowers will be giving this year's Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture followed by a question and answer session with Hannah Fry (and the audience!).
Tim Gowers is one of the world's leading mathematicians. He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge, where he also holds the Rouse Ball chair, and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1998, he received the Fields Medal for research connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics.
After his lecture Tim will be in conversation with Hannah Fry. Hannah is a lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL. She is also a well-respected broadcaster and the author of several books including the recently published 'Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine.'
This lecture is in partnership with the Science Museum in London where it will take place.
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by the body’s response to an infection. In the US alone, there are over 970,000 reported cases of sepsis each year accounting for between 6-30% of all Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admissions and over 50% of hospital deaths. It has been reported that in cases of septic shock, the risk of dying increases by approximately 10% for every hour of delay in receiving antibiotics. Early detection of sepsis events is essential in improving sepsis management and mortality rates in the ICU.
Since 2000, PhysioNet has hosted an annual challenge on clinically important problems involving data, whereby participants are invited to submit solutions that are run and scored on hidden test sets to give overall rankings. This year’s challenge was the “Early prediction of Sepsis from Clinical data.”
A team from Oxford Mathematics and Oxford Psychiatry which consisted of James Morrill, Andrey Kormilitzin, Alejo Nevado-Holgado, Sam Howison, and Terry Lyons ranked in first place out of 105 entries. The team built a method based on feature extraction using the Signature method. They showed how the model predictions could be used to provide an early warning system for high risk patients who can be given additional treatment or subject to closer monitoring.
Mathematics is the pursuit of truth. But it is a pursuit carried out by human beings with human emotions. Join Vicky Neale as she travels the mathematical rollercoaster.
Oxford Mathematics is delighted to announce that in partnership with Northumbria University we shall be hosting our first Newcastle Public Lecture on 13 November. Everybody is welcome as we demonstrate the range, beauty and challenges of mathematics. Vicky Neale, Whitehead Lecturer here in Oxford, will be our speaker. Vicky has given a range of Public Lectures in Oxford and beyond and has made numerous radio and television appearances.
Wednesday 13 November
5.00pm-6.00pm
Northumbria University
Lecture Theatre 002, Business & Law Building, City Campus East
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2SU
So you have just bought a footbal club and the fans are on your back and you desparately need success. What do you do?
Well you need a good manager for sure and that manager will no doubt ask you to pay top dollar to get the best players. But the manager will almost certainly ask you to employ a team of sports scientists including...wait for it...a mathematician.
Surely not? Well if not a profesisonal mathematician, certainly a student of the subject. Because football is about space, angles, data. Mathematics is about space, angles, data...
David Sumpter's Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture 'Soccermatics: could a Premier League team be one day managed by a mathematician', makes the connection explicit, as well as revealing which teams and players already ahead of the game, both as footballers and mathematicians.
Mathematical research is an integral part of all our lives, though many people are blissfully unaware of the connection. Sam's role will be to encourage colleagues to explain that connection and to find smart and entertaining ways for them to do it, building on our mix of Public Lectures, Research Case-studies and social media.
Sam's own research is in stochastic analysis and mathematical finance. Beyond mathematics, he has interests in philosophy and Christian theology. Watch this space.
Oxford Mathematician Sarah Waters has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. Sarah's research is in physiological fluid mechanics, tissue biomechanics and the application of mathematics to problems in medicine and biology. In the words of the citation Sarah was elected "for exposing the intricate fluid mechanics of biomedical systems and impactfully analyzing them with elegant mathematics.”
