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Song of the Week: Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

Over five years ago, when the wonderful Vicky Neale instigated and ran the Bulletin, your now self-appointed Song of the Week Editor suggested the odd song or poem to accompany the maths. Those suggestions don't appear in the full Song of the Week list (links now fixed), but to celebrate - or commiserate - Song of the Week at 5, here is the first ever suggestion.

Let Sandy Denny break your heart.

Responsible modelling and the ethics of mathematics for decision support

Mathematical models are used to inform decisions across many sectors including climate change, finance, and epidemics. But as Erica Thompson explains in this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture, models are not perfect representations of the real world – they are partial, uncertain and often biased. What, then, does responsible modelling look like? And how can we apply this ethical framework to new AI modelling methods?

Editorial: Capillarity and elastocapillarity in biology

Hu, D Kim, H Vella, D Interface Focus volume 15 issue 2 (16 May 2025)

Dynamic Sparse No Training: Training-Free Fine-tuning for Sparse LLMs

Zhang, Y Zhao, L Lin, M Sun, Y Yao, Y Han, X Tanner, J Liu, S Ji, R (13 Oct 2023) http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08915v3

Season 10 Episode 3

Complex systems approaches to 21st century challenges: Introduction to the Special Issue

Bednar, J del Rio-Chanona, M Farmer, J Kaszowska-Mojsa, J Lafond, F Mealy, P Pangallo, M Pichler, A Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 107049 (May 2025)

Mike Giles elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Oxford Mathematician Mike Giles is a computational mathematician who has worked at the interface with both engineering and computer science. His early research was on computational fluid dynamics, developing algorithms and software which is today used by Rolls-Royce in the design of its aircraft engines. More recently, he moved into computational finance and more generally the area of Uncertainty Quantification, developing advanced Monte Carlo simulation methods

Optimal control of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in a heart-tumour model

van der Vegt, S Baker, R Waters, S Bulletin of Mathematical Biology volume 87 issue 9 (11 Aug 2025)

Thu, 05 Jun 2025
16:00

Lecture Room 4

Refined conjectures of ‘Birch—Swinnerton-Dyer type’ and the theory of Euler systems

Dominik Bullach

(University College London)

Abstract

In the 1980s, Mazur and Tate proposed refinements of the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture that also capture congruences between twists of Hasse–Weil L-series by Dirichlet characters. In this talk, I will report on new results towards these refined conjectures, obtained in joint work with Matthew Honnor. I will also outline how the results fit into a more general approach to refined conjectures on special values of L-series via an enhanced theory of Euler systems. This final part will touch upon joint work with David Burns.

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