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About the role
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join the University of Oxford in the newly created role of Apprentice Finance and Accounting Technician at the Mathematical Institute. The role is being created following a period of dynamism and change in the Finance Team, to enable it to further improve its service to the department.
The Balog-Szemerédi-Gowers theorem is a powerful tool in additive combinatorics, that allows one to roughly convert any “large energy” estimate into a “small sumset” estimate. This has found applications in a lot of results in additive combinatorics and other areas. In this talk, we will provide a friendly introduction and overview of this result, and then discuss some proof ideas. No hardcore additive combinatorics pre-requisites will be assumed.
The Department Faculty Meeting minutes from the 5 October can be found here
A calculator processes numbers without caring that these numbers refer to items in our shopping, or the calculations involved in designing an airplane. Number without context is a remarkable abstraction that we learn as infants and which has profoundly affected our world.
Our lives start, progress in complex ways, and are finally complete. So do tasks executed on a computer. Multimodal streams are a pervasive “type”, and even without fixing the context, have a rich structure. Developing this structure leads to wide-ranging tools that have had award-winning impact on methodology in health care, finance, and computer technology.
Terry Lyons is Professor of Mathematics in Oxford and a Fellow of St Anne's College. His research is supported through the DataSig and Cimda-Oxford programmes.
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The lecture will be available on our Oxford Mathematics YouTube Channel on 09 November at 5 pm.
The Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures are generously supported by XTX Markets.