Take a break at the end of term with some Mathematrix crafts and sweet treats! Supplies for watercolor and origami will be provided, and you are welcome to bring your own crafts. 

Everyone is invited to celebrate International Women in Mathematics Day with a pizza lunch! We will be watching ‘Journeys of Women in Mathematics’, a powerful 20-minute film by the International Mathematical Union showcasing the experiences of women mathematicians worldwide. It follows three mathematicians from India, Cameroon, and Brazil from their home institutions to the (WM)² international meeting, showing their research and what it’s like to be part of the global maths community.

The ε-energy is a regularisation of the Dirichlet energy introduced by Tobias Lamm. Like the famous Sacks-Uhlenbeck regularisation this greatly improves the existence and regularity theory. When we take the limit of a sequence of ε-harmonic maps with the parameter ε decreasing to 0 these converge, in the standard bubbling sense, to harmonic maps, which we hope to extract information about. I will talk about some recent results for these sequences, being when we might hope to have no loss of energy and no neck forming and what sort of harmonic maps we can obtain in the limit.