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Services outage due to power failure in Server room

Due to a power failure in the Dartington House server room we have experienced an outage of half of our services from ~2:45-3:15pm . Power has been restored fairly quickly and all services are back up. A full investigation into the causes will take place in the next few days.

Last updated by Waldemar Schlackow on Fri, 15/07/2011 - 3:24pm.
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Departmental Photoboards

We have been asked by several departmental members to provide web photoboards of our members. We have finally been able to make the first version live. The photo page offers the possibility to view photos of the different staff groups, whereever people have provided photos in their profiles.

We are very much looking forward to feedback, which should ideally be sent to help [-at-] maths [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk .

Last updated by Waldemar Schlackow on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 6:25pm.
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Live feeds of the New Building Site

Now that the new Mathematics building is about to start getting built, we have put up some live feeds to the building site showing the progress. The Maths website front page will include an up-to-date image and the electronic noticeboards around the department will show a live motion feed of the site.

Last updated by Waldemar Schlackow on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 5:26pm.
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Last chance to book for the Mathematical Institute Garden Party - Saturday 16 July 2011, 16:00

Professor Caroline Series speaks on “Indra’s Pearls,” the patterns created by iterating conformal maps of the complex plane called Möbius transformations, and their connections with symmetry and self-similarity

Lecture in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, followed by a reception at St Anne’s College

Further details and registration form
Registration closes on: Friday 8 July 2011

Last updated by Keith A. Gillow on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 9:50am.
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London Mathematical Society prizes 2011

We are delighted to announce that three Oxford mathematicians have been awarded London Mathematical Society prizes this year: the Naylor Prize and Lecture to Bryce McLeod, the Senior Whitehead Prize to Jonathan Pila and a Whitehead Prize to Barbara Niethammer. Congratulations to them all.

Further details can be found on the LMS website

Last updated by Keith A. Gillow on Tue, 05/07/2011 - 12:48pm.
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University Internet link failure

The University's link to JANET, that links us on to the internet is currently down. OUCS had already scheduled work for Tuesday morning, 28th June, at 7am to fix this so it is possible there will be no internet connection until then. We are sorry for the obvious inconvenience this will cause.

Update: It looks like the internet is back, at least partially. Further failures may follow until tomorrow.

Last updated by Waldemar Schlackow on Mon, 27/06/2011 - 10:03pm.
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Oxford wins the Woolly Owl Trophy

The 15th Biennial Oxford/Cambridge Applied Mathematics Meeting was won by Oxford. The Woolly Owl Trophy is now back in the halls of OCIAM in Dartington House.

This event has taken place biennially since 1983. Fifteen minute talks are given by young researchers. They are judged by two distinguished academics from other institutions who award the winning university the coveted Woolly Owl. However, this year there were three judges: John Harper (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Arash Yavari (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA), Sharon Stephen (University of Birmingham, UK).

Speakers and talks are listed on the OCIAM web pages. The next event will be hosted by Cambridge in 2013.

Last updated by Waldemar Schlackow on Wed, 22/06/2011 - 11:27am.
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Yasemin Sengul Wins Oxford University Graduate Photography Competition 2011

Yasemin Sengul, a recent graduate of the department, has won the Oxford University Graduate Photography Competition 2011. The picture and further details are available.

Last updated by Keith A. Gillow on Tue, 14/06/2011 - 1:49pm.
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Final Stage Approval of the Mathematical Institute New Building by the University Council

We are delighted to report the recent final stage approval of the Mathematical Institute new building by the University Council. With this approval, construction is set to commence later this summer with a projected two year build timeline. We plan to be settled in to the new building for the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year.

However, this does not mean that work to secure funding will cease. We aim to raise another £19.3M in addition to the £10.1M which has been raised to date. This will ensure that the department enters the new building in a good financial position, fully able to make the best use of the new, inspiring environment. We look forward to providing you with news and updates on the building as work progresses.

Last updated by Keith A. Gillow on Fri, 07/10/2011 - 2:40pm.
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Department takes part in World IPv6 Day

The 8th June 2011 is World IPv6 Day.

The department is showing its support for this event by enabling IPv6 connectivity to several of its websites:

The last unreserved IPv4 address blocks were allocated at the end of January 2011.

You can click here to see if you're accessing the Maths website via IPv6.

Last updated by Matthew West on Tue, 07/06/2011 - 11:40am.
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