If you wonder where Pete has been recently, the answer is that he has been busy setting up an AI-focused company to enable high-stakes decision making without data. And he has just raised £1.6m to kick things off.
Friday 31st October 2025
Matters of the Moment
Pete Grindrod start-up gets funding
Events in the Department
MacMillan Coffee Morning
We’re back for another MacMillan Coffee Morning. Please join us on Tuesday 4th November at 11 am in the Common Room to fundraise for this great cause.
We need cake donations, so please help by baking or buying something sweet. Please let @email know about your contribution - otherwise just join us to catch up, eat cake and give a donation if you can.
A Century of Graph Theory - a talk by Robin Wilson
Lecture Theatre 3, 15.30, Tuesday 4th November
No specialist knowledge of graph theory required.
To celebrate the publication this summer of Milestones in Graph Theory (by Lowell Beineke, Bjarne Toft and Robin WIlson), this illustrated historical talk covers the period from around 1890, when graph theory was still mainly a collection of isolated results, to the 1990s by when it had become part of mainstream mathematics. Among many other topics it includes material on the four-colour problem, factorization, trees, graph structure, and graph algorithms.
Mathematrix crafts session
Join Mathematrix on Wednesday November 5th at 2:30 pm in N3.12 for a chill crafts session. We’ll provide some craft materials, or you can bring a current project you are working on. There will be sweet treats and great company.
We are also still actively seeking PhD students to join the Mathematrix Committee. Please email @email if you are interested in helping with Mathematrix now or in future terms.
Teaching and Learning
Library news - New Subscription: International Journal of Number Theory
The Radcliffe Science Library has started a subscription to International Journal of Number Theory, published by World Scientific.
Online access is available now and starts from Volume (2001).
Short stories 1
Government got problems. Climate got problems. Energy policy got problems. We all got problems. So we need a wide range of people to hang out together to tackle them.
Becky Crossley describes an Evidence House hackathon (no, not that sort of hackathon).
Short stories 2
Many people think mathematics lives on the dark side.
Turns out they were right.
Shorts stories - bonus video
Just another mathematical biology talk on just another day...
For Graduate Students
Postgraduate conference
The Bath and Bristol SIAM Student Chapters are hosting a free one-day postgraduate conference celebrating mathematical sciences at the stunning Engineers House, University of Bristol .
Other News
Song of the Week: R. Dean Taylor - There's a Ghost in My House
Happy Halloween